2019-2024
The new five-year 学术总体规划 (AMP) focuses on UCNJ’s commitment to empower students in achieving their goals by providing access to high quality and affordable higher education to the residents of UCNJ County. The values that guide the operation of the College are student success, 卓越, 学生参与, 协作, 完整性, 管理, 社区参与, diversity, 和全球化. This AMP offers strategic and operational priorities for the 教务处 through 2023, while building on current strengths and embracing new opportunities.
该计划将包括以下学年:
- 2019-2020
- 2020-2021
- 2021-2222
- 2022-2023
- 2023-2024
In 2021-2022, 如果认为相关, the Plan will be reviewed for currency and for the inclusion of emerging trends and opportunities. 以确保下一个计划的准备是及时的, in 2022-2023, a new Plan will be written so that a current AMP is available for the development of the next Matrix.
Through the leadership of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, 各学部院长, faculty, and staff, the AMP outlines a bold vision to engage the entire College community and progressively bolster imperative success metrics, 包括招生, learning, retention, 和毕业率通过四个总体核心概念:
1. Aligning academic efforts with workforce needs –to increase enrollment and preparedness of adult learners.
2. Applying creative and engaging strategies for teaching – to bolster effective teaching and learning outcomes.
3. Using targeted data and predictive analytics – to strengthen institutional and student success outcomes.
4. Developing collaborative partnerships – to advance institutional and student success with high schools, 高级学院, 以及企业和行业合作伙伴.
The central focus of this AMP is to foster student success through a pursuit of 卓越 while providing access to the transformative power of education to the UCNJ County community. These four Core Concepts will be in large part accomplished by a number of “Next BIG Things:”
- Acquiring and developing the back of the Thul building at the Plainfield campus so that our automotive program can be moved to Plainfield and also develop a small-engine/ diesel program, further aligning our programs to workforce needs in the community.
- Pursuing mission-differentiation and offering the community college baccalaureate in health science and other high demand programs to provide baccalaureate graduates in needed occupations.
- Exploring a partnership with Linden Airport so that we can develop aviation programs in hi-need areas such as aviation technology maintenance.
- Employing undergraduate research to expand and enhance experiential learning opportunities (ELOs) for students.
- Establishing an Innovation Center that includes information and approaches to teaching that encourage faculty to engage in pedagogical practices that engage students.
- Realizing a “虚拟校园” whereby at least 20 programs are fully online by 2020 so that online enrollment is substantially increased.
- Executing an OER approach for our programs building on the current efforts to bring 美国的荣誉 to an OER platform, decreasing costs to the students program and expanding the use of technology in learning.
- Enhancing the relevance of UCC 101 to students and improving completion rates by connecting the course to New Student Orientation, offering it in a 7 week block and strengthening its connection to the each academic division through discipline-based approaches.
- Harnessing the potential of Predictive Analytics to more fully support student success.
- Developing a 大学中心 that would include 4 year partners and a Supply Chain Academy in 协作 with UCNJ County Vocational School at our Scotch Plains Campus, increasing student access to a baccalaureate degree and to industry valued credentials from certificates to degrees.
- Creating a Prior Learning 评估 (PLA) framework to improve our enrollment and revenue, 尤其是成年人.
All of these Core Concepts are intimately intertwined with one another to reinforce the goals of the College as it moves forward into the next decade. If faculty and students are engaged in the classroom, students will continue to engage as alumni. If data is obtained and maintained about current and potential procedures and opportunities, 学生将为在加州大学新泽西分校取得成功做好更好的准备, 高级学院, 在工作中. Collaborating with the community will enhance 学生参与, 劳动力的机会, 还有更广泛的人群, share, 分析有意义的数据. 换句话说, everything that the College does can and should function as an ongoing effort among all parties to support its vision, goals, 和成功.
借用企业家马库斯·莱蒙尼斯的一个强大的想法, 电视节目的明星, 利润, 谁将任何成功都归结为三个关键要素:产品, process, 和人(Ciccarelli), 2015), we commit to continually refining our products (the curricula) and our services for the people that we serve – which include all our stakeholders, 包括学生, alumni, staff, faculty, 以及我们的UCNJ县社区. 除了, we commit to processes that maintain our fiscal well-being and the development of new initiatives that will keep the College in the forefront of innovative practices and offerings. Finally, we will continue to strive to attract and employ people who support our success priority.