Goal 2 Strategies
Illinois State University will demonstrate excellence in scholarship, teaching, and learning at the
undergraduate and graduate levels.
Strategy 1
Recruit, retain, and promote outstanding faculty and staff committed to the values of the
University.
Activity
- Increasing salaries to allow more competitive recruitment and retention of faculty and staff in
all units
Activity
- Initiatives to recruit and retain a more diversified faculty and staff
Strategy 2
Ensure that academic support structures promote excellence in teaching, scholarship, and creative
activities.
Activity
- Enhancing Milner Library collections, services and resources to support instruction,
scholarship and creative activities
Activity
- Updating The Master Plan: Achieving Distinctiveness and Excellence in Form, Function, and
Design to take into consideration other plans such as The Redbird Renaissance and the
continued development of the Gregory Street property
Strategy 3
Facilitate the appropriate use of on-site, on-line, and other innovative delivery methods of
instruction.
Activity
- Installing, maintaining, and updating appropriate teaching technology in all classrooms
Activity
- Expanding instructional and technological support to facilitate faculty in updating teaching
strategies and using new instructional technologies effectively through services such as the
Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology
Strategy 4
Assist faculty and staff as they seek external funding, work to publish in their disciplines and
continue to serve the University and its students.
Activity
- Establishing and supporting a center for research and scholarship that provides strategic
development opportunities for faculty engaged in research and scholarly activities
Activity
- Providing centralized support for assisting faculty and staff with preparation and submission
of grant applications
Activity
- Providing additional support and incentives for faculty to engage in research such as paid
leaves, travel, and graduate student support
Activity
- Enhancing the visibility of, and training and support for, academic technology applications for
research
Activity
- Developing doctoral programs in academic disciplines with long-term research potential
Strategy 5
Expand international faculty exchanges to enhance faculty knowledge and internationalization of
curriculum.
Metrics
Strategy 6
Expand the systematic reflection on, and study of, teaching and learning through continued
national leadership in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) initiative.
Metrics
