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- Action 4.1.1: Promote the importance of liberal arts and sciences skills, understanding diversity, equity, social justice, and critical thinking through contributions to General Education program.
- CAS-IT will continue to support Digital Measures Activity Insight which has been designed to distribute the contributions of faculty to various other sources with little to no other effort on the faculty’s behalf besides entering the record. For example, media relations uses the CAS Report from the CAS website to know what faculty have done in the last quarter, Christine Bruckner from Community Engagement and Service Learning can run a report she helped design which serves as a conversation starter between her and the faculty, feeds the CAS Collaboration System which allows for quick searching of faculty teaching and research interests, etc.
- Aligns with Illinois State University Strategic Plan items II.C.3 and IV.B.3.
- Action 4.1.2: Share and promote how the individual units in CAS prepare students for future careers and graduate school.
- CAS-IT will continue to support website copyediting, design, and development, which are very commonly used to tell such stories.
- CAS-IT will continue to advise departments that their websites should be used to help achieve this.
- CAS-IT will continue to support Digital Measures Activity Insight which has been designed to feed information entered by faculty to faculty profile pages on the department websites with little to no other effort on the faculty’s behalf besides entering the record. These pages are important to the recruitment of graduate students.
- Aligns with Illinois State University Strategic Plan items II.C.3 and IV.B.3.
- Action 4.1.3: Continue to build and enhance civic engagement opportunities for diverse students at the local, national, and international levels.
- CAS-IT will continue to support website copyediting, design, and development, which are very commonly used to tell such stories.
- CAS-IT will continue to advise departments that their websites should be used to help achieve this.
- Aligns with Illinois State University Strategic Plan items II.C.3 and IV.B.3.
- Action 4.1.4: Highlight the course offerings and programing of Women and Gender Studies, African American Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, East Asian Studies, Native American Studies, and Ethnic Studies and their relevance in a globalized world.
- CAS-IT will continue to support each of these websites departments with copyediting, design, and development.
- Aligns with Illinois State University Strategic Plan items II.C.3 and IV.B.3.
- Action 4.2.1: Develop mechanisms for connecting community organizations to faculty and staff with the research and consulting expertise they need. Develop web-based resources with a list of specialist/speakers or experts so that internal and external sources can find these individuals.
- CAS-IT will continue to offer the CAS Collaboration System which already intends to serve this purpose.
- Aligns with Illinois State University Strategic Plan items II.C.3 and IV.B.3.
- Action 4.2.2: Promote and encourage faculty participation in Main Street College as a form of outreach to the community; share participation in CAS and University publications, local market publications and WGLT as a means of outreach to the off-campus community. Use Main Street College as a means to showcase the academic expertise.
- Mike Regilio will work with Travis Meadors, and potentially others, from WGLT to give WGLT immediate access to a Digital Measures Activity Insight report that would give them an overview of what our faculty are doing, much like we have already done for Community Engagement and Service Learning.
- CAS-IT will continue to provide input to, and support the progress of, adopting a new mass email tool which should be able to allow for easier subscriptions by topic by ISU and non-ISU addresses.
- Aligns with Illinois State University Strategic Plan items II.C.3 and IV.B.3.
- Action 4.2.3: Use new media and social networking technologies as appropriate to publicize College accomplishments to showcase the contributions of faculty, staff, and students, particularly those from underrepresented groups, to keep internal and external stakeholders informed and connected with all of the College’s programs and achievements. Continue to use CASNews, Redbird Scholar, Identity, College and Departmental newsletters, and University News Hub to promote the work of the College, and encourage the diffusion of CAS achievements to local and state media.
- CAS-IT Training and Advanced Projects like to become a partner with those responsible for carrying this out. The skills we already keep in house, like photo and occasionally video editing, website design, technical writing, etc. can be of help.
- CAS-IT would like to hire a GA for the purposes of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) which could have a big impact on social media posts and department website effectiveness.
- Aligns with Illinois State University Strategic Plan items II.C.3.
- Action 4.2.4: Promote and encourage recruiting of culturally diverse populations in Illinois as well as internationally, and increase partnerships abroad so that students choose Illinois State as their place of studies.
- CAS-IT will continue to advise departments that their websites should be used to help achieve this.
- Aligns with Illinois State University Strategic Plan items II.C.3 and IV.B.3.
- Strategic Focus 4: Selected Accountability Measures
- Number of all General Education courses and sections taught by faculty members from CAS, number of courses dedicated to US and international diversity and report assessment data from those General Education courses.
- Depending on what is needed for assessment data, CAS-IT will continue to support Digital Measures Activity Insight which is already tracking and reporting this metric.
- CAS-IT can work with those responsible for this to determine specific reporting needs.
- Report contributions to the ongoing work of the Career Task Force.
- CAS-IT will continue to support Digital Measures Activity Insight which is already able to track this data.
- CAS-IT can work with those responsible for this to determine specific reporting needs.
- Number of opportunities for civic engagement and the acquisition of intercultural communicative competency.
- CAS-IT will continue to support Digital Measures Activity Insight which is already able to track and report this metric.
- CAS-IT can work with those responsible for this to determine specific reporting needs.
- Number of presentations made to the general public by faculty members of CAS, including Main Street College presentations.
- CAS-IT will continue to support Digital Measures Activity Insight which is already able to track and report this metric.
- CAS-IT can work with those responsible for this to determine specific reporting needs.
- Number of all General Education courses and sections taught by faculty members from CAS, number of courses dedicated to US and international diversity and report assessment data from those General Education courses.
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