Direct Report Goals

Enrollment Growth (Strategic/Hoshin-Kanri)

Fall AY 2024/2025 Enrollment Goal of 52,500 met or exceeded Maintain leadership in Summer enrollments in Ohio
Increase First-to-Second Semester retention by 2% (93%) Increase scholarship opportunities for students

• Increase enrollment in 3 targeted areas: 1) UC Online; 2) Adult Skilling and Reskilling and Professional Degrees by Launching new Programs
• Grow the pipeline of High School students in dual enrollment programs

• Enrollment Goal of 52,500 achieved or exceeded
• Enrollments in UC Online, Adult Education and Professional Degrees exceeded (UC Online growth of 4-5%)
• Degrees and certificates and microcredentials offered by skills@UC grow by 20%)
• CCP enrollment > 25%.
• Enrollment forecast plan Fall 25-29

Bearcat Promise
Retain more students overall to the university (2nd-to-3rd and 3rd-to-4th year students) and increase 6-year graduation rates.
Complete the review of General Education curriculum and adapt it to be more transfer friendly and more in line with current student needs Career planning and Co-Op opportunities offered to more students

• Make retention a goal of all direct reports
• Address DFW rates in broad interest courses
• Expand actions (debt relief program, Learning Communities, Early Detection alerts) that help reduce student friction
• Grow Co-op involvement across the curriculum

• All direct reports of Provost have retention as #1 Goal (25% or more)
• Decrease DFW rates across the university by 5%
• All student friction measures above grow their positive results.
• More students in co-operative education; more students participate in experiential-learning

Next Graduate Scholars
Elevate the quality of entering graduate students
Grow experiential learning opportunities for our graduate students Fully launch Presidential Fellows program

• Compete for higher quality students
• Increase partnership with industry and alumni to grow degree-to-employment opportunities for students
• Complete a programmatic general review of status of all our programs

• Entering Graduate Students GPAs higher than previous cohort
• Increase reviews of graduate programs and begin distributing more fellowship/assistantship money to those programs that are growing
• Expand presence of graduate students in internships with industry partners and establish at least 25 mentorships between alumni and graduate students

Society and Culture:
Launch *Imagining America* conference effort (already begun) Increase # of major national grants awards by Art, Humanities and Social Sciences faculty

• Bring a Fellow into Provost office to coordinate “Imagining America” effort
• Hire Grant Writer (in coordination with Taft Research Center) to help write individual faculty and university-wide grants.

• Hire of Grant writer completed by November 2024.
• Double amount of grants applied for by AH&SS faculty by end of the academic year.
• Society and Culture Provost Fellow will have helped partner to establish relationships with community members by end of academic year.

Operational Sustainability:
Review the processes by which we establish the sustainability of operations of units under the provost area for AY 2024-2025

• Establish and have the president approve of benchmarks by September 2024
• Review (as pilot) 3 units under the provost for the measures established above during AY 2024-2025

• Create a chart of the benchmarking measures for the three units above by April 2025.
• Propose 3 actions that will lead to increased sustainability for the three units by the end of the year, and begin implementing them.

Leadership-Innovation Culture (Strategic)

Promote a culture of Leadership and Innovation in Academic Affairs

• Establish and fund programs that help develop and grow the leadership characteristics of faculty and staff in Academic Affairs.
• Present at National conference on Academic Leadership development
• Produce a series of actions as an outcome of the Provost Fellows program in the Provost's office.

• Write one paper for publication on Leadership at UC
• At least 5 people who participate in Acad. Affairs leadership development are recognized in promotion and/or presentations for their leadership skills.