Goal 1: Develop Capacities for Faculty and Staff.

Objectives:

1. Motivate and Support Faculty and Staff.
2. Recruit new faculty members to better serve students’ needs.

Actions:

1. Reward faculty and staff through recognition, opportunities, and promotions.
2. Create effective partnership within different departments and schools at LIU, as well as, with national and international academic institutions to exchange knowledge and skills.
3. Provide training opportunities to support and mentor faculty members in tight collaboration with CETL ( Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning)
4. Expand full time faculty members by providing a supportive work environment that attracts high caliber academicians.

KPI:

● Names of faculty who receives the Teaching Excellence Award and those who have been promoted.
● Types of partnerships developed at LIU and national and international academic institution.
● List of workshops and trainings conducted each year and the names of faculty who attended.
● Number of new faculty members appointed each year.
● Appointment of recruiting coordinator for each department.

Goal 2: Advance Teaching Methods that Integrate Practical based and Multidisciplinary Education.

Objectives:

1. Include diversity in the curricula within the School.
2. Extend pedagogical approaches relying on student-to-student interaction.
3. Collaborate with CETL to upgrade teaching methods.

Actions:

1. Update contract sheets to include courses from other disciplines as major/general electives.
2. Encourage students to register courses from disciplines other than theirs.
3. Integrate science/art activities in teaching.
4. Adopt group-based problem solving in class room.
5. Allow Flipped classrooms in some courses.
6. Make use of the facilities provided by the SSDC (Student Success and Development Center).
7. Appoint departmental coordinators to ensure diversity and collaboration.

KPI:

● Updated contract sheets.
● Courses that used activities during lectures.
● Titles and codes of classes that used Flipped classrooms.
● Titles and codes of classes that used group-based problem solving.
● Number of mentoring and mentored students.
● Names of coordinators.

Goal 3. Place more Emphasis on the Know-how and Students’ Communication Skills.

Objectives:

1. Put more emphasis on projects and applied learning for student learning and evaluation.
2. Encourage students to participate in competitions, poster sessions, seminars, and exhibitions.

Actions:

1. Add more projects with adequate facilities to more courses.
2. Increase the grading percentage on the projects in courses.
3. Appoint of departmental coordinator responsible for training courses.
4. Organize internal and external competitions and exhibitions.

KPI:

● Number of courses that have added projects to their syllabi.
● Course codes and titles that included sciences and arts activities in the classroom.
● Types and titles of projects that were presented in Arts and Science Courses.
● Types and number of academic field trips conducted.
● Number and type of competitions and exhibition conducted.
● List of winners and types of prizes and awards.

Goal 4: To meet International Academic Standards.

Objectives:

1. To seek international accreditations.

Actions:

1. Determine the most appropriate accrediting body for selected program(s).
2. Prepare documents and files to match accreditation requirements.

KPI:

● Name of programs that have been accredited.
● Submitted files to the accrediting bodies.

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