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- Goals
- To conduct a comprehensive assessment and issue a report on Beyond
Survival: The Millennium Agenda for Jackson State University’s
strategic initiatives for 2000 – 2007.
- To compile and validate all data resulting from the comprehensive
assessment as a compendium volume for University reaffirmation.
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- Basic Questions
- What did and didn’t happen during the process of implementing the
consensus five broad strategic initiatives subdivided into 18 programs
and work teams with 200 action steps?
- For what worked, WHY and for what didn’t work, WHY? Strengths and
weaknesses analysis, challenges and threats met, opportunities gained
and opportunities lost.
- What are the teachable moments and how do they propel the institution
to the next strategic phase of development? Lessons learned to inform
next phase.
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- Assessment Foci to Gauge Expected Outcomes and Lessons Learned
- Strategic Initiative 1. Review and where appropriate and feasible
restructure academic programs and budgets to ensure alignment with
constituents needs, institutional mission and values, and effective
learning models.
- CONTEXT FOR ASSESSMENT
- Schools, programs and academic structure
- Academic priorities and budgetary processes
- Educational themes and areas of
academic focus
- Faculty recruitment and retention
- Technology enhanced delivery systems
- Teaching research and service in an urban context
- The campus living and learning environment
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- Initiative I Assessment Team
- Dr. Barbara Johnson, Chair
- Dr. Vivian Taylor, Co-Chair
- Dr. Marinelle Payton
- Dr. Abdul Mohamed
- Dr. Debra Buchanan
- Dr. Doris Gardner
- Dr. Ruben Gentry
- Dr. Juette Bingham
- Dr. Yu Hongtao
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- Strategic Initiative 2. Accelerate the integration of information and
telecommunication technology throughout the institution and develop a
leadership position in the application of technology
- CONTEXT FOR ASSESSMENT
- A more robust technical support structure that includes on-going
training for faculty, students and staff
- Additional services or enhancements to existing ones
- An internal marketing strategy to communicate the uniqueness and
availability of the University’s technological infrastructure
- Revitalizing the University’s technology committee
- New corporate partnerships to acquire and promote the use of new
technologies both within and outside of Jackson State University
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- Initiative 2 Assessment Team
- Dr. Dal Didia, Chair
- Dr. Nicole Evans, Co-Chair
- Dr. Gordon Skelton
- Dr. Frank Giles
- Dr. Elizabeth Overman
- Mr. Robert Patterson
- Mr. Shelton Swanier
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- Strategic Initiative 3. Improve the management of Jackson State
University’s available resources and implement measures to grow those
resources particularly in support of faculty salaries
- CONTEXT FOR ASSESSMENT
- Customer service
- Identify areas of inefficiency or waste and devise plans to increase
efficiency and decrease waste
- Accountability among faculty and staff, as the stewards of University
resources, for the correct use of those resources
- Internal and external communication to support improvements in the
operations of Jackson State University
- Federal Grants and Contracts
- Quasquicentennial Capital Campaign
- Faith Fund
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- Initiative 3 Assessment Team
- Dr. Melvin Davis, Chair
- Dr. Dollye Robinson, Co-Chair
- Dr. Mehri Fadavi
- Ms. Philisia Conners
- Dr. Vijaya Gompa
- Dr. Mohammed Shabbazi
- Ms. Linda Daniels
- Dr. Paul Tchownou
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- Strategic Initiative 4. Enhance the image of Jackson State University
- CONTEXT FOR ASSESSMENT
- Be aggressively pro-active in exploiting the benefits of Jackson State
University’s physical location
- Build and enhance relationships with external stakeholders
- Develop an image that focuses on the entire university community
- Promote faculty staff and student expertise and achievements in
research and service
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- Initiative 4 Assessment Team
- Dr. Marie O’Banner-Jackson, Chair
- Dr. Emeka Nwagwu, Co-Chair
- Dr. Lavern Gentry
- Dr. Tracy Harris
- Ms. Tommiea Jackson
- Ms. Jerrdean Franklin
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- Strategic Initiative 5. Create a model learning and working environment
for the entire Jackson State family
- CONTEXT FOR ASSESSMENT
- Review the University’s organizational policies, processes and
procedures to better accommodate the changing institutional environment
- Develop and maintain an inclusive culture on the campus for students,
faculty, administrators and staff
- Promote cultural, social emotional and physical well being among
Jackson State students, faculty and staff
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- Initiative 5 Assessment Team
- Dr. Pamela Banks, Chair
- Dr. Lurlene Irvin, Co-Chair
- Dr. Julia Schroeder
- Dr. Jeton McClinton
- Ms. Jacqueline Humpreys
- Mr. Fredrick Hadley
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- Assessment Steering Committee
- Dr. Felix Okojie, Chair
- Dr. Barbara Johnson
- Dr. Nicole Evans
- Dr. Melvin Davis
- Dr. Bessie O’Banner-Jackson
- Dr. Pamela Banks
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- David Wilson - Data Collection/
Information
Dissemination
- Dr. Patricia Grierson - Writer/Editing
- The Barthwell Group - Process/ Information Sharing
- Assessment Consultants - TBN
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Notes
