Strategic Initiative 5
Advance Organizational Development and Employee Excellence
Outcomes
- The university fosters a culture of care for employees that is people-centered and helps to develop their skills and talents
- The university promotes cross-divisional collaboration and supports, recognizes and celebrates the achievement of teams
- The university attracts, hires and retains a diverse workforce including increased faculty diversity and tenure density
- More faculty and staff participate in and benefit from personal and professional development activities
- University systems and processes are streamlined and optimized
Goals and Objectives
- Design and deliver an integrated employee development framework to build organizational capacity
- Establish a culture and an infrastructure of addressing institutional challenges and opportunities by empowering high-performing, cross-functional teams
- Implement best practices in recognizing teamwork and new ways of celebrating the achievement of teams
- Implement a multi-year model for hiring tenure track faculty
- Provide search committees and hiring managers with additional support and tools to increase the size, strength and diversity of employee applicant pools
- Provide enhanced support for faculty engagement in teaching innovation; research, scholarship and creative activities; advising; and curricular development and assessment
- Offer a range of personal and professional development opportunities for employees tailored to specific roles and pathways for career advancement
- Develop a multi-year capital improvement plan for campus infrastructure in alignment with strategic priorities
- Routinely assess processes and services to improve efficiency and enhance performance
- Develop and implement a comprehensive sustainability plan that leverages our unique assets and location and that addresses areas such as natural resources, buildings and facilities, transportation and procurement