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Goal 1: Realize Our Student Commitments
Because we ask questions, champion solutions, and ceaselessly create, UHart Start focuses on teaching and learning.
The University of Hartford has an ambitious strategic action plan to transform the institution, ensure excellence, and sustain success.
Before outlining specific goals and objectives for direct action, UHart Start begins with a shared vision of a bright future that includes and involves our entire community.
The University of Hartford like many institutions of higher learning, stands at a pivotal juncture. Within the next five years, we will be ready to meet our promising future. But how will that future look and feel? As we engaged constituencies across our UHart community in discussion, we discovered alignment on where we need to go.
In the classroom and throughout campus, UHart's momentum is palpable. The time is now for us to take another significant leap forward.''
Our careful and inclusive deliberation process identified six distinct goals that will guide UHart's active transformation through contributions by The President's Council, Staff Council, Faculty Senate, Student Government Association, and Board of Regents.
Because we ask questions, champion solutions, and ceaselessly create, UHart Start focuses on teaching and learning.
Because students are our lifeblood, UHart Start emphasizes return on their investments of time, money, and effort.
Because we are a junction of many communities, UHart Start models equitable engagement practices.
Because we rely on student-produced revenue without an expansive endowment, UHart Start reorients our financial model.
Because we believe physical proximity promotes positive educational outcomes, UHart Start focuses on campus placemaking.
Because we have clear advantages, UHart Start outlines a favorable position in the higher education marketplace.
To hold ourselves accountable, the UHart Start Strategic Action Plan includes a set of metrics related to each of our goals. How we measure is as important as what we measure.
Data will be disaggregated by social and cultural categories, including race, gender identification, sexual orientation; and by segments of the community such as part time versus full time, college, department, and level of study.
To learn more about metrics of success, explore and expand details of Our Goals.
Each of our six guiding goals has been segmented into objectives,
with responsibilities assigned in these three phases:
To set a foundation for our future and address our most pressing issues, what must we accomplish first?
Having completed an evaluation phase and begun our initial transition, which transformational activity must be completed next?
As we reorient our University to its future, what initiatives and activities must we install to ensure excellence and sustain success on an ongoing basis?
UHart Start is built for action, with clearly assigned roles and alignment on our measurements of success.
Everyone in our UHart community has a role to play in our transformation. Progress will be monitored along the way, and oversight will roll up to the president and chief operating officer.
Expand details below to see key roles for individual and departments:
The president and chief operating officer will ensure the Strategic Plan’s success.
We need your help to ensure our plan’s success!
Thank you for your interest in our strategic action plan. If you have comments, concerns, or a desire to take a more active role in shaping our future, please reach out!
You can email president@xlsmyh.com or contact your respective departmental representative.
For additional context surrounding UHart Start and strategic planning at our University, review the following materials: