Strategic Objectives
2002-2003
COEHS Goal: Meeting the critical accreditation and program approval for the COEHS departments;

SOE Objective:
- Prepare and submit Program Review/Periodic Evaluation online(in progress)
- Secure a full-time, one-year staff position for review coordination and web development(complete)
- Collaborate to develop a Language Arts minor(awaiting final state approval) and obtain a tenure-track faculty to help cover the Elementary Education growth/courses.(complete)
- Promote renewed commitment to CTE role through activities of the CTE Advisory Board (complete).


COEHS Goal: Managing enrollment and retention through having adequate faculty and staff for student support;

SOE Objective:
- Secure a full-time, permanent, vocational certification officer.(complete)
- Obtain a tenure-track faculty line to help cover the increasing need for CTE courses (both undergraduate and graduate).(on hold)
- Obtain a tenure-track faculty line to help cover the Elementary Education growth/courses (e.g., methods), for both the undergraduate degree and the graduate MEd Elementary Certification Option.(complete)
- Obtain a tenure-track faculty line in Language Arts.(complete)
- Request assistance from AA division and HRD to strategically conduct searches to fill faculty vacancies with high quality faculty to sustain program quality.(complete)
- Participate with Center for Teaching, Learning, and Faculty Development to develop more consistent and comprehensive adjunct faculty training.(complete)
- Encourage faculty to participate in development programs focusing on instructional design and course development using WebCT and/or other instructional delivery technologies.(continuing)
- Emphasize scholarship and incorporate goals within faculty due to increased graduate loading. - specifically the current cognitive & brain theories.(continuing)
- Implement an "after conference report" and/or library (online?) that promotes sharing of information among the department.(not yet initiated)
- Develop ongoing in-house, brown-bag luncheon with an "expert" series content.(not yet initiated)
- Develop an annual guest speaker series (complete)

COEHS Goal: Advancing the COEHS responsiveness to its constituents through advanced technology, collaborative initiatives, and flexibility;

SOE Objective:
- Upon State approval, promote new Social Studies Secondary Education program.(complete)
- Participate with COEHS in proposing to work with other colleges, including Allied Health, Arts and Science, University College, Business, Technology, Kendall, FSU-GR, other partnering agencies such as the military, Bay Mills, and the Michigan Rural Systemic Initiative, and other universities or colleges to develop and implement more cooperative programs in response to the global changing society.(in progress)
- Expand Elementary Education to off-campus branches.(complete)
- Offer M.Ed. program at West Shore Community College campus.
- Implement the FSU-Kendall Art Education program.(complete)
- Approve and implement a Master's Option, Graduate Certificate offerings, and an Elementary minor in Special Needs.(in progress)
- Create an Industrial Arts minor for career/technical oriented students seeking vocational certification.(in progress)
- Introduce a concentration on Philanthropic Education within the M.Ed. (complete)

COEHS Goal: Expanding the resources of the COEHS and its departments;

SOE Objective:
- Participate with and provide input to the Dean's Technology Task Force to assess the student, faculty, and staff technology needs and help to create a three-five year technology plan for the COEHS.(complete)
- Emphasize web- teaching technology and determine courses that could be converted.(in progress)
- Create teacher work-room for elementary education small group work.(complete)
- Continue to seek external sources of funding for equipment and programmatic support.
- Cooperate with departments in the College of Arts and Sciences to supervise student teachers.
- Expand college and public school relationships for grant partnering possibilities.