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Objective 1 → Engagement: Be a value-added, essential partner to the university and external communities. |
- Grow to 5,000 students in total FCBE enrollment by Fall 2028 (approximately 6% growth
per year from 2023 basis).
- Increase scholarship and internship opportunities for students.
- Increase corporate partner program by one new partner each semester on a recurring basis until we determine a saturation point (providing access for corporate partners to our students, and access for our students to those jobs).
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Objective 2 → Students, Faculty, & Staff: Empower all stakeholders to acquire, create, share and use knowledge for the betterment of our communities. |
- Expand business mentorship programs, real-world case study challenges, and opportunities
for entrepreneurial projects to ensure students are immersed in practical experiences.
- Facilitate networking events, workshops, and seminars with industry leaders and alumni
to foster a deep connection between students and the business community.
- Empowering faculty and staff will be further explained under goals #4 and #5 to follow.
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Objective 3 → Teaching: Transform students’ social mobility through opportunities in business education. |
- Increase 6-year graduation rate to 70% by 2028.
- Achieve a job-placement or job-advancement rate of 80% at time of graduation.
- Revise curricula and maintain relevance on an ongoing basis to ensure fit between
our programs and workforce requirements.
- Standardize online courses for a consistent student experience in FCBE online offerings.
- Establish partnerships with businesses and industry experts to offer internships and projects that bridge the gap between academic learning and the workforce.
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Objective 4 → Research: Engage in high levels of globally recognized and impactful research activity. |
- Promote interdisciplinary research within the business school, collaborating with
other faculties and external partners to address pressing business and societal challenges.
- Invest in a top-notch research infrastructure, such as data analytics labs and business
research centers and support staff to enable faculty and students to conduct high-impact
research.
- Increase the research expenditures of the FCBE for more summer research support in
terms of dollars-per-award, more summers of guaranteed support for pre-tenure faculty,
and research accounts.
- Encourage all tenured and tenure-track faculty to achieve and maintain AACSB Scholarly Academic status.
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Objective 5 → Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Be a college with a culture people are proud to belong to and reward them in ways that help them grow with us. |
- Be transparent in the recruiting process, ensuring positions are posted publicly and
announced generally to the college so that all candidates are aware of opportunities.
- Provide career development opportunities (workshops and conferences, promotion and
advancement) for FCBE faculty and staff.
- Create criteria for promotion to (Full) Professor of Teaching voted on by FCBE faculty
during the calendar year 2024.
- Consistently ensure FCBE staff are compensated at levels comparable to on-campus peers.
- Adjust faculty compensation to levels consistent with AACSB compensation reports.
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Objective 6 → Accountability: Employ a process for achieving objectives that values transparency and accountability. |
- Maintain a commitment to safety by investing in security infrastructure; communicating
best practices for personal safety to students, faculty and staff; and sharing accurate
data regarding campus/FCBE safety.
- Reinforcing our high regard for faculty governance through committee work, faculty
meeting proceedings and votes, and regular meetings of the dean with faculty representatives
(e.g., senators, program directors, committees, chairs).
- In areas where administrative leadership has prerogative, maintenance of consistent
communication so stakeholders understand the decisions being made and the reasons
driving those decisions.
- Annual updates to FCBE faculty and staff regarding the status of this strategic plan and its objectives, state of the college, and college SRI report.
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Objective 7 → Physical, Virtual and Financial Resources: Cultivate philanthropic contributions for the FCBE and maintain a budget that facilitates investment in FCBE growth. |
- Raise $60M to match the state’s $25M for a total of $85M towards the renovation and
construction of a new Fogelman Business Complex to break ground by the end of 2024.
- Over the course of the subsequent two years (2025-26), build a top-tier, modern and
technologically equipped physical location that students can be excited to attend,
and that faculty and staff are proud to be a part of.
- Grow our budget to allow for year-over-year faculty headcount growth of 5%.
- Invest in staff support so that each department has its own administrative assistant.
- Hire a recruiting and enrollment coordinator to deliver tuition-revenue growth to
FCBE.
- Increase staff in the Undergraduate Student Services and the Graduate Programs Offices.