Goal 4. Technology
Benefit from the use of technology in the delivery of services.
Critical Success Factors (measures of the degree of success over the next 5 years):
- Create technology infrastructure that provides easy collaborative interaction in a learning environment.
- Create and maintain a quality internet presence.
- A uniform and integrated technology system.
- Conduct 50% of internal business on-line.
- Offer 12 degree programs through distance learning and 8% of total course inventory through distance learning.
- Effectively use advanced technology in teaching 25% of courses.
- 25% of classrooms will be technology enabled.
- 75% of appropriate recruiting tools will be Internet-based.
- 75% of appropriate student services will be available through the Internet.
- Realize a $1,000,000 savings through efficient use of technology over the next 5 years.
- Increase availability and use of technology for students.
- Every student and faculty member will have basic computer and information technology literacy.
- Establish policies and procedures related to the use of technology.
Objectives:
Objective 4.1: Increase student, faculty and staff access to information technology.
Strategies:
- Fund and manage technology as a university-wide resource.
- Operate and maintain appropriate telecommunications equipment and network.
- Create fully supported, twenty-four-hour, student computer access areas, both on and off campus, with state-of-the-art equipment and software.
- Use wireless and other technology to bring network access via portable devices to designated classrooms and other campus locations.
- Use site licensing to leverage buying power to ensure state-of-the-art software campus-wide.
- Provide campus-wide access to portal technology, high volume access to network storage, and collaborative online tools.
- Ensure appropriate of technological infrastructure in all renovations and new construction.
Assessments:
- Volume of use and savings on site license programs.
- Capacity and convenience of student access areas.
- Portal and network access capabilities compared to peers.
- Growth of bandwidth capacity and network features.
Objective 4.2: Integrate the use of technology in teaching and learning processes.
Strategies:
- Increase the number of distance/technology education classrooms.
- Support the special needs of teaching and learning in very technology-focused areas.
- Provide incentives to faculty for using technology into their pedagogy.
- Engage faculty in how instruction is impacted by technology.
- Provide an appropriate infrastructure for distance learning.
- Seek external funding for technology in teaching.
Assessments:
- Number of distance courses.
- Amount of external support.
- Number and capabilities of technology classrooms.
- Number of courses using technology.
Objective 4.3: Integrate the use of technology in research.
Strategies:
- Develop a long-term plan to maintain high-performance computing.
- Seek external funding for high-performance computing.
- Provide consulting, training, and other services for researchers.
- Investigate creative ways for using available technology.
- Identify and support alternative uses of technology in research.
Assessments:
- Amount of external funding.
- Use of high-performance computing in funded projects.
Objective 4.4: Expand the use of E-business applications to streamline operations.
Strategies:
- Create a university-wide integrated computer system that enables services to be provided electronically.
- Use the Internet as the primary mode for conducting campus-wide routine administrative business.
- Use the transition to the Internet as an impetus and occasion to reengineer processes and activities to them more effective.
- Remove unnecessary barriers to access to information - both technical and policy based.
- Create secure, well-structured data warehouse applications and powerful and easy to use tools to access them on demand.
Assessments:
- Percent of university's business conducted on-line.
- Use of data warehouse offerings.
Objective 4.5: Become a technology resource for the region.
Strategies:
- Provide collaboration, consulting, and working models to those using technology for economic and rural development.
- Seek external funding for technology use in rural and economic development.
- Host or support a technology infrastructure for economic and rural development.
- Provide technology training throughout the region.
Assessments:
- Number of development ventures using technology.
- Amount of external technology funding for use in rural and economic development programs.
Objective 4.6: Increase the number of electronically delivered degree programs and courses.
Strategies:
- Develop and implement additional electronically delivered courses and programs.
- Support faculty training for electronically delivered instruction.
- Support faculty training in the design and implementation of electronically delivered curriculum.
- Provide appropriate technological resources for electronically delivered instruction.
- Market electronically delivered courses and degree programs.
Assessments:
- Number of electronically delivered courses.
- Number of electronically delivered degrees.
- Student enrollment.