Therefore, we commit to...
Mentor students so that they can become self-directed learners, researchers, and creative and performing artists
Be well prepared and current in our areas of research and instruction so that we can share our enthusiasm for learning and discovery with our students
Continuously assess student learning to improve instruction and academic programs
Maintain high expectations and accountability for ourselves and our students toward academic success
The strategic priorities identified in this plan represent our primary issues and top concerns as we face head-on the demographic, economic and technological forces reshaping higher education at Kentucky State University.
Academic Programs
Diversity
Graduate Studies
Community Engagement
Enrollment Management
Retention
Kentucky State University strives to foster a culture that prioritizes student success. The success of our students hurls our commitment to teaching, collaboration, innovation, evidence-informed pedagogy, and the advancement of inclusive, equitable, and equal education. We will demonstrate our commitment to student success by reassessing pedagogical practices, growing scholarship, and increasing research infrastructure. We will also enhance transferrable career competencies, cultivate an intellectual climate, and streamline academic curriculum and course offerings. These enactments will help us to refocus our attention, develop and enhance our pathway strategies, so that we may attain our preferred outcomes. The pathway model recognizes the underlying problem is not noncollege-ready students, but barriers that undervalue these alternative routes taken by full-time first-time, first-generation, and marginalized individuals. In addition, our focus is on transformative programs to establish regional standards and best practices to support pathways to a brighter social and economic future.
Objective 1.1: Ensure academic programmatic offerings are high-quality, relevant and inclusive to ensure essential employable competencies are achieved within a four-year time to degree; 1.1a) cultivate equitable collaborations and partnerships to enhance and support academic programming impact on student achievements. success. and emplovability:
Objective 1.2: Improve instructional costs and productivity by 1.2a) streamlining academic curriculums
1.2b) use data-driven metrics to recommend course offerings and as a mechanism to remove potential barriers to “on-time” degree completion; 1.2c) Identify, co-develop, and provide professional development opportunities to reimagine, reinforce, or build high-quality, relevant and inclusive academic programs; and, 1.2d) refocus academic interventions to be inclusive, holistic and to promote the practice of mindfulness;
Objective 1.3: Develop an academic enterprise ecosystem based on the pathway model focused on providing multiple routes toward the required training for “on-time” degree or credential completion and attainment; and,
Objective 1.4: Implement the Kentucky Graduate Profile Academy’s recommendations that require all students graduating from Kentucky State University will have had multiple, intentional opportunities to develop their abilities through the institution's curriculum and co-curricular activities; and 1.4a)