6 • We believe in both mastery of content and individual development, embracing a growth mindset that believes all students can become better communicators. IV. Strategic Goals, objectives, and key initiatives A. Teaching and Curriculum Enhancement Strategic Goal 1: Maximize enrollments through engaging with multimodal course delivery and curriculum adjustments to address recent curricular losses. Objectives 1. Pass paperwork through AAC to offer CMST major and minors online. 2. Offer CMST curriculum online and face-to-face and cross-list. 3. Pass paperwork through AAC to offer a second semester of Latin and at least one semester of American Sign Language. 4. Change the language requirement for BA in English from three semesters to two. Strategic Goal 2: Support students through more consistent and frequent curricular messaging to advisors and students. Objectives 1. Make sure course description posters/broadsheets are available to students and advisors every semester before the advising period opens. 2. Use touchstone classes in a more conscious way to advise majors. Strategic goal 3: Enhance teaching and collegiality through formal and informal information and skills sharing. Objectives 1. Utilize MSTeams to create a depository of teaching resources. 2. Schedule monthly or bi-monthly informal brown bag lunches to share teaching ideas and trouble shoot classroom problems. B. Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Strategic goal 4: Make annual performance evaluations as transparent and smooth as possible. Objective Develop discipline-specific appendix to the Standards Document. C. Service and Community Engagement Strategic goal 5: Encourage community engagement and experiential learning through better documenting and celebrating what we do. Objectives 1. Apply for CETL pedagogy grant to purchase user friendly equipment for collaborative podcasting in cooperation with the library. 2. Identify and build community relationships that result in podcasting content. 3. Celebrate student and faculty achievements through podcasts.
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