Year 3: March - April

Action Planning

Units can use their Self-Study, external review report, and Memo to create a draft Action Plan for the meeting with the Provost. During the Provost meetings, the unit can present their draft and discuss the Action Plan and receive feedback. Units will then submit a finalized Action Plan to the APR team within two weeks of their meeting with the Provost. The finalized Action Plan will be shared with the Deans and/or Provost for approval.

Based on what units have learned and discussed as part of their formal APR Self-Study process, units develop an Action Plan that presents concrete steps the unit will take to make improvements.

Unit Action Plans must include the following:

• Three to five specific objectives units plan to accomplish, with at least one objective addressing each of the following broad areas:
  • Student learning and success
  • Resource effectiveness
  • Size/type of programs.
• Critical activities needed to meet each objective, including who in the unit (or outside) is responsible for leading activity, including the timeline for activity implementation,
• Specific benchmarks to be achieved at given times, for each critical activity
• What deliverables will show progress is being made in the short term (one to two years) and long term (four to five years)
• A timeline and plan to assess the effectiveness of the deliverable. (e.g., in a Monitoring Report, next APR cycle, in an annual assessment process)
• A brief narrative explains the selected objectives and how benchmarks will indicate progress on them.

Deliverable: Action Plan Template