Strategic Scorecard

1.1 Adopt experiential learning guidelines and align high-impact practices with these guidelines.

1.2 Articulate internship or service learning opportunities for all academic programs.

1.3 Develop experiential and co-curricular activities that provide appropriate accommodations for faculty, staff and students.

• • • The Experiential Learning Strategic Action Team developed a five-year plan to address these three strategic initiatives (III.1.1, III.1.2 and III.1.3), starting with building expertise, capacity and interest; gathering input; providing resources and guidelines; and establishing a taskforce for writing a white paper that holistically addresses access and benefit for students, possibly, creating an Experiential Learning program.

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2.1 Increase support for student engagement in community service.

• • • Additional base funding for Service Learning and Career Development (starting 2018).

2.2 Provide professional development for faculty and staff to promote engagement in community service.

2.3 Establish processes to recognize faculty, staff and students for public service.

• • • Under construction | Pastega Committee is looking at a Faculty Service Award to be first awarded Spring 2020.
    • The faculty CBA includes explicit language recognizing community service as part of faculty service obligations, and what faculty can be recognized for.

2.4 Create and enhance educational partnerships with local communities, particularly for underrepresented student groups.

• • • The Bilingual Teacher Scholars program has increased the number of scholars participating.
    • Willamette Promise provides teacher training and college credit opportunities for Oregon high school students with a focus on underrepresented/under-served student populations, and students in those programs show improved outcomes. Willamette Promise is dis-aggregated and you can see the equity results here. Also see page 6 of the HECC Spring 2017 Assessment Based Learning (ABL) Transcription and Transfer Brief for evidence regarding Willamette Promise student outcomes.

2.5 Enhance educational partnerships with international universities that promote global connections for faculty, staff and students.

• • • Under construction | WOU is continuing to develop new international partnerships and identify opportunities for WOU faculty to travel and teach abroad. See the Office of International Education & Development.
      
    • WOU is now a member of World Oregon and connecting students, faculty and staff with this internationally focused organization.

2.6 Strengthen partnerships with community organizations and businesses and local, regional and state government agencies.

• • • Faculty continue to lead work in this area in many programs, examples include
      Alumni mentoring programs (wou.edu/slcd/careermentoring/), the History Alumni Mentors program, pursuing federal grant (CAMP) for Women’s Voting Rights Project that will involve collaboration with partners that serve migrant farmworker families (Kim Jensen, Social Science).
    • WOU in Salem actively pursuing partnerships with employers.

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3.1 Expand activities and partnership with local and regional organizations.

• • • Active service learning project: Habitat for Humanity work by the Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
    • The Smith Fine Arts series partners with local schools for artist outreach programs.
    • Faculty and programs, along with their students, participate in a variety of community and local events. See the LAS Dean’s news page, wou.edu/las/news and the Division of Education and Leadership’s news page, wou.edu/teachered/news.

3.2 Increase community and alumni participation in, and support for, campus activities.

• • • We publicize faculty, student and alumni accomplishments and continue to foster connections via WOU Stories.
    • Monthly Pawprints news is sent to Alumni and community members with highlighted events and link to calendar of events.
    • Various campus groups including Smith Fine Arts series, WOU Alumni, WOU in Salem and others participate in off campus events in an effort to connect people to campus.
    • Membership in Travel Salem helps provide and promote campus activities.
    • The Public Policy & Administration major organized the Congress to Campus event (Howl article) in February, 2020 bringing two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives to WOU to discuss bipartisanship, political dialogue and public service careers. As part of these events, WOU alumni participated in a Public Service careers panel, and the WOU and surrounding community were invited to attend the public forum, and specific classes.

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4.1 Enhance diversity of university community as a matter of institutional priority and an integral component of academic success.

• • • WOU continues to work towards our goal to become a Hispanic Serving Institution. See the Statewide Higher Education Snapshots for recent growth.
    • The University Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Committee (UDIAC) has been formed.
    • The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is engaging in strategic hiring to diversify faculty, and faculty have attended search team orientation meetings hosted by Human Resources.

4.2 Provide professional development to improve institutional climate and personal commitment to, and understanding of, cultural competencies.

4.3 Recognize that knowledge of, and experience in, diversity-related topics are professional competencies that are expected of all employees.

• • • Addressing both III.4.2 and III.4.3, the College of Liberal Arts and Science has brought national experts to campus to conduct workshops in diversity, equity and inclusion. Fall 2018, Dr. Asoa Inoue discussed white language in education. Winter 2019, Dr. Nicole Stokes-DuPass conducted an all-day interactive workshop on diversity, equity and inclusion.

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