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Board of Trustees Retreat

Strategic Plan Year Three Update

October 2018

Undergraduate Student Success

Objective One: Be the University of choice for aspiring undergraduate students within the Commonwealth and beyond, seeking a transformational education that promotes self-discovery, experiential learning, and life- long achievement.

Undergraduate Student Success

Strategic Initiatives:

1) Enhance the success of our increasingly diverse student body and help ensure timely degree completion and career planning through high-impact, student-centered support systems 2) Enhance students’ learning and their preparation for contributing to a rapidly changing world as leaders and scholars through the provision of new and innovative curricular offerings and state-of-the-art teaching 3) Enrich students’ undergraduate education through transformational experiences of self-discovery and learning

Undergraduate Student Success

Baseline AY 2015-16 AY 2016-17 AY 2017-18 AY 2018-19 2020 Goal

Retention Rates 1st Year 82.2% 82.7% 81.7% 83.3% 84.5% 90.0% 2nd Year 74.9% 74.9% 74.1% 74.3% 74.6% 85.5% 3rd Year 69.7% 70.1% 69.1% 68.4% 68.3% 82.0% Graduation Rates 4-Year 38.5% 40.4% 44.2% 44.8% 47.1% 53.0% 6-Year 60.2% 61.3% 63.6% 64.6% 65.8% 70.0% Graduation Rate Gaps

Underrepresented Minority (URM)

16.7% 23.5% 13.0% 15.2% 14.2% 9.8% First Generation 7.8% 14.1% 16.7% 18.2% 16.7% 8.0% Pell Recipients 15.0% 19.1% 16.2% 19.6% 17.1% 8.0%

AY 2018-19 is preliminary

Undergraduate Student Success

First-Year Experience Philosophy

• Engage students in their transition to

University life

• Embrace opportunities to promote

intellectual and personal growth

• Foster a sense of belonging, well-being, and

community through curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular activities

• Offer a balance of support and challenges

Next Steps

• Set first-year learning goals and outcomes
• Develop and deliver faculty professional

development

• Review and assess practices for continuous

improvement

Graduate Education

Objective Two: Strengthen the quality and distinctiveness of our graduate programs to transform our students into accomplished scholars and professionals who contribute to the Commonwealth, the nation, and the world through their research and discovery, creative endeavors, teaching, and service.

Graduate Education

Strategic Initiatives: 1) Recruit and retain outstanding graduate students from all backgrounds 2) Invest in graduate programs that have distinctive synergy with UK’s research priorities and/or whose graduate students demonstrate excellence at the national or global levels 3) Elevate the quality and richness of the graduate student experience and increase the national competitiveness of UK’s graduate programs

Graduate Education

Baseline AY 2015-16 AY 2016-17 AY 2017-18 AY 2018-19 2020 Goal

Doctoral Program Selectivity 25.0% 32.4% 29.4% 30.5% 30.9% 22.0% Graduate Degrees Awarded 1,591 1,555 1,548 1,507 1,586 1,639 Diversity of Graduate Enrollment African American/ Black 4.5% 4.6% 4.7% 4.5% 4.6% 7.7% Hispanic/ Latino 2.6% 2.4% 2.5% 2.9% 3.3% 2.7%

AY 2018-19 is preliminary

Graduate Education

Online Graduate Degrees

• Online master’s degrees
• Master’s in Applied Statistics ranked in top 10

nationally

• Master’s in Digital Mapping
• Integrating market analysis
• Program development
• Program improvements

Leveraging International Partnerships

• FastTrack pathways from bachelor’s to

master’s

• 3+2 Jilin University in Public Health
• Developing new partnerships with the Gatton

College of Business and Economics, the College of Engineering, and the College of Arts and Sciences

Outreach and Community Engagement

Objective Three: Leverage leading- edge technology, scholarship, and research in innovative ways to advance the public good and to foster the development of citizen-scholars.

Outreach and Community Engagement

Strategic Objectives: 1) Renew our institutional commitment to promote the public good through the sustainable application of our expertise and resources to meet challenges and disparities associated with social, economic, environmental, educational, and health issues 2) Deepen student learning through community engagement

Outreach and Community Engagement

Baseline 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2020 Goal

Unified Reporting Structure Number of Reporting Structures 25+ 3 3 3 1 Faculty & Staff Delivering Outreach & Community Engagement Faculty Teaching Courses 14.3% 15.3% 17.4%

Available after Nov 2018

25.8% Staff Teaching 1.4% 1.5% 1.4%

Available after Nov 2018

3.3% Opportunities for Students Community Engagement Courses 329 331 337 329 429 Partnerships Identified Partnerships 100 7,082

Under development 2017-18 is preliminary

Outreach and Community Engagement

Innovative Digital Badges for Student Engagement

• Documenting student competencies in Service

Engagement, Civic Engagement, and Active Citizenship

Peace Corps Prep Partner

• New program in development to build student

competencies desired by Peace Corps

• Sector-specific skills
• Foreign language proficiency
• Intercultural competency
• Professional savvy and leadership
• Integrates coursework and hands-on experience
• Leads to a certificate issued by Peace Corps

Diversity and Inclusivity

Objective Four: Enhance the diversity and inclusivity of our University community through recruitment and retention of an increasingly diverse population of faculty, administrators, staff, and students, and by implementing initiatives that provide rich diversity-related experiences for all to help ensure their success in an interconnected world.

Diversity and Inclusivity

Strategic Initiatives: 1) Foster a diverse community of engaged students 2) Improve workforce diversity and inclusion 3) Engage diverse worldviews and perspectives by increasing awareness of diversity and by communications across campus that address these issues

Diversity and Inclusivity

Baseline AY 2015-16 AY 2016-17 AY 2017-18 AY 2018-19 2020 Goal Enrollment of URM students Undergraduate 14.7% 15.3% 16.1% 16.6% 16.5% 16.2% Graduate 8.4% 8.9% 10.5% 9.4% 10.3% 11.8% Graduation Rate for URM students Bachelor 45.2% 40.7% 52.4% 51.9% 54.2% 60.2% Masters 70.9% 64.9% 61.8% 67.4% 67.0% 78.0% Doctoral 45.5% 47.1% 38.5% 63.6% 53.8% 68.0% Employment of Faculty Women 37.1% 38.0% 38.9% 39.1%

Data available after Nov 2018

48.2% African American/ Black 3.4% 3.5% 3.6% 3.7%

Data available after Nov 2018

6.9% Hispanic/Latino 3.0% 3.1% 3.2% 3.5%

Data available after Nov 2018

4.2% Employment of Executives Women 48.9% 46.8% 47.4% 47.8%

Data available after Nov 2018

50.0% African American/ Black 3.5% 4.0% 4.6% 4.5%

Data available after Nov 2018

7.9% Hispanic/Latino 0.5% 0.7% 0.5% 0.5%

Data available after Nov 2018

6.1% Employment of Staff African American/ Black 4.3% 4.6% 4.3% 4.6%

Data available after Nov 2018

5.1% Hispanic/Latino 1.1% 1.2% 1.1% 1.0%

Data available after Nov 2018

1.5%

AY 2018-19 is preliminary

Diversity and Inclusivity

Culture of Conversation: “Exploring Invisible Issues”

• Financial need
• Food insecurity
• Mental health
• Sexual assault

Critical Conversations on Race and Teaching

• Creating learning communities and fostering belonging
• Universal design for learning
• Facilitating, managing, and responding to difficult

dialogues Faculty Learning Communities

• Teaching veterans (14 participants from six colleges)
• Teaching for equity (12 participants from five colleges)

Diversity and Inclusivity

Leadership Development Programs

• Chairs Academy I and II
• Bluegrass Higher Education Consortium

Academic Leadership Academy

• Women’s Executive Leadership

Development Program (WELD)

• 260 total faculty participants
• 62% women, 10% URM

Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program

• 33 UK fellows completed the program
• 62% women, 19% URM
• 76% hold executive positions

Research and Scholarship

Objective Five: Expand our scholarship, creative endeavors, and research across the full range

• f disciplines to focus on the

most important challenges of the Commonwealth, our nation, and the world.

Research and Scholarship

Strategic Initiatives: 1) Invest in UK's existing strengths and areas of growth in selected focus areas that benefit and enrich the lives of the citizens of the Commonwealth and beyond 2) Recruit and retain outstanding faculty, staff, and students who support our research and scholarship across the range of disciplines at the University 3) Improve the quality of the research infrastructure across campus 4) Strengthen engagement efforts and translation of research and creative work for the benefit of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the nation, and the world

Research and Scholarship

Baseline FY 2014-15 FY 2015-16 FY 2016-17 2020 Goal Total Research & Development Expenditures All $328.2 M $331.7 M $349.7 M $378.4 M $364 M Federal Only $142.3 M $146.5 M $154.6 M $171.3 M $159 M Ranking of Doctoral Programs Leiden Ranking 51.1% n/a 51.1% 52.0% n/a Research Space $/sq foot $191 $197 $209 $209 $300 Licenses Exclusive Licenses 100 101 105 106 177 License Income $3.3 M $1.0 M $6.5 M $2.4 M $3.5 M

FY 2016-17 is preliminary

Research Scholarship and Extramural Funding

Faculty Excellence

• Endowed Chair
• F. Joseph Halcomb III Chair in

Biomedical Engineering established

• Cluster hires in Computer Science

(Engineering) and Cancer Biology (Medicine)

Research Funding Success

• Markey Cancer Center
• Renewal of National Cancer Institute

designation ($10.8 million) and Cancer Registry ($37 million)

• Gender and heart disease
• $3.7 million grant from American

Heart Association

Research Facilities and Equipment

Multidisciplinary Research Building

• Phase 1 opened September

2018

Internal Research Equipment Competitions

• $5.7 million in research

equipment purchases in high-priority areas

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