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Goals for 2011-2012 Academic Year
“We are ready to lead and
ready to serve. OMSA is
strong, vibrant, and vital to
the campus.”
30 | Goals for 2011-2012 Academic Year
Another challenging year is upon us. We are ready to lead and ready to serve.
OMSA is strong, vibrant, and vital to the campus. The goals below will require that
we marshal our talents and skills, stretch our imaginations, reexamine our beliefs,
leverage campus and community support, and refocus our resources on targeted
and other students with the greatest need for services.
Strategic Priority #1: Create and sustain a culture of staff excellence
Goal 1: Design and implement a comprehensive staff development
program to assist with recruiting, retaining, and developing staff.
Goal 2: Begin the national certifi cation process for the tutoring program
and its assistant director.
Strategic Priority #2: Create and sustain a culture of student excellence
Goals 3: Establish and achieve measurable goals for tutoring and
instructional services for targeted students. 27
Goal 4: Establish and achieve measurable goals for academic mentoring
services to targeted students.
Strategic Priority #3: Create and sustain a culture of planning and
assessment
Goal 5: Complete assessments for select units based on Council for the
Advancement of Standards.
Goal 6: Complete assessment project related to select under-represented
students receiving services.
Goal 7: Complete TRIO Student Support Services assessment project.
Strategic Priority #4: Create and sustain a culture of internal and external
engagement
Goal 8: Implement the new TRIO Educational Talent Search Program.
Goal 9: Submit proposals for new TRIO programs.
Goal 10: Host a retention summit for the campus community.
27 Targeted students are students identifi ed at the beginning of the academic year in consultation with the admissions
offi ce. Criteria include, for example: under-represented, EOP (irrespective of race or ethnicity), PAP (irrespective of race or
ethnicity), low-sending counties (irrespective of race or ethnicity), and students with 24 ACT or less irrespective of race or
ethnicity (especially males irrespective of race or ethnicity) AND the same population of students, plus TRIO SSS and TRIO
McNair students, on probation at any point in their studies.
Offi ce of Minority Student Affairs 2010-2011 Annual Report