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The Office of Academic Innovation (AI) at Cal Poly Pomona cultivates the success of diverse students by fostering an inclusive culture of innovation and creativity in teaching, research, and experiential learning. It prepares students for a variety of dynamic and rapidly changing career and professional experiences. Additionally, AI collaborates with students, faculty, staff, and community and industry partners to foster innovative curricular and co-curricular strategies aimed at nurturing lifelong learning and making a significant impact within the Cal Poly Pomona community and beyond.

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Mission

The Office of Academic Innovation (AI) at Cal Poly Pomona cultivates the success of diverse students by

  • Fostering an inclusive culture of innovation and creativity in teaching, research, and experiential learning.
  • Preparing students for a variety of dynamic and rapidly changing career and professional experiences.
  • Collaborating with students, faculty, staff, and community and industry partners to foster innovative curricular/co-curricular strategies aimed at nurturing learning for life and impact in the Cal Poly Pomona community and beyond.

Vision

By the year 2028, the office of Academic Innovation (AI) at Cal Poly Pomona will be an adaptive and versatile national model for developing intentional, equity-minded, and transformative educational experiences that prepare students for the future of work, human, and civic engagement.

Strategic Initiatives

  1. Enhance Career and Community Engagement

    Provide strategic leadership, oversight, and guidance to the Career Center (CC), Center for Community Engagement (CCE), Innovation Incubator (II), Kellogg Honors College (KHC), Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), and Student Innovation and Idea Labs (SIIL); support the formulation and implementation of unit goals, and assessment plans; and build a strong, high-functioning, collaborative team culture across AI.

  2. Promote Equity-Minded Empowerment

    Lead the design and institutionalization of an equity-minded career and professional readiness model that enables our diverse students to develop, through sequenced curricular and co-curricular experiences, the essential skills and competencies that prepare them for a variety of dynamic, rapidly changing professional landscapes.

  3. Build Inclusive Academic Innovation

    Create infrastructure to support faculty and staff success in developing and launching inclusive, equity-minded innovative curricula and cocurricular experiences for students.

OAI Objectives


1.A. Perform annual reviews of strategic goals/priorities
1.B. Perform annual reviews of program evaluation and/or assessment plans
1.C. Provide professional development opportunities to AI leadership team (ALT) and staff
1.D. Create and support a culture of data-driven decisions based on strategy and program evaluation and assessment
1.E. Create and support a culture of collaboration to leverage the synergies that exist among AI units
1.F. Hold bi-annual AI retreats and incorporate professional development and team building exercises and provide multiple opportunities for formal and informal social interactions.
1.G. Implement a marketing and communication strategy to broadly disseminate AI’s plans, activities, and accomplishments.

2.A. Expand CPP INVESTS model to serve all CPP students, faculty, and staff
2.B. Engage campus community in design sprints to design and develop a career and professional readiness model to gain broader institutional engagement and buy-in
2.C. Create a governance structure for Future Career Paths initiative
2.D. Inventory existing career and professional readiness efforts within curricular and co-curricular activities
2.E. Continue to expand the development of PolyX to support career and professional readiness competencies in students
2.F. Collaborate with academic and non-academic units to intentionally embed PolyX in a wide array of curricular and co-curricular experiences to inculcate career and professional readiness competencies in students
2.G. Develop a campus digital credentialling and badging system for students to demonstrate the career and professional readiness competencies developed in curricular and cocurricular learning experiences
2.H. Expand professional development opportunities to faculty and staff in knowledge and skills necessary to advance an inclusive, equity-minded culture of innovation in teaching and learning
2.I. Develop a robust communication and change management plan to support the achievement of strategic initiative

3.A. Collaborate with faculty and staff to develop inclusive and equity-minded pedagogies infused with creative and innovative practices in curricular and cocurricular learning experiences of students.
3.B. Support faculty and staff to raise intramural and extramural funding to develop and implement innovative and transformative educational experiences ($500,000 by 2028)

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