7 4. Send news releases celebrating student and faculty accomplishments to NSU’s Media Relations for distribution. 5. Contribute more content to CAS Instagram/social media feeds. History and Social Sciences Priority Items Center for Public History and Civic Engagement Revitalization: Revive the work of the Center by re-establishing a regular public-facing speaker series and increasing campus and community awareness of civic engagement through partnerships with local and regional community organizations. This includes strengthening the Center’s visibility, clarifying its public mission, and reactivating its role as a hub for dialogue, history, and civic participation. This includes clarifying its mission, leadership structure, programming, and potential funding streams. Criminal Justice Faculty Hire (Fall 2026 Search): Conduct a CJ faculty search beginning in Fall 2026 to directly support the CJ MA launch in Fall 2027, expand graduate-level course coverage, reduce undergraduate instructional overload, and strengthen advising and program administration at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Criminal Justice/Criminology (CJ) Master’s Program Development and Launch: Advance planning for the development and launch of a CJ MA program in Fall 2027, including curriculum design, faculty capacity, delivery format (online/hyflex/in-person), and alignment with workforce and regional needs. History Faculty Hire (Succession Planning): Prioritize a History faculty hire to ensure the program maintains a minimum of three full-time faculty, in anticipation of Steven Usitalo’s retirement. This hire is directly tied to sustaining program stability, advising capacity, and longterm curricular coverage. History Curriculum Revisions: Implement targeted updates to the history curriculum that are intentionally connected to faculty staffing and expertise, including the specialization of new hires and the need to balance major-level offerings with ongoing general education instructional demand. Revisions will ensure alignment with disciplinary trends, student pathways, and workforce applicability. Political Science Major Reinstatement and Expansion: Restore Political Science as a standalone major through targeted faculty hiring and curriculum development that expands beyond political theory to include data analysis, methodology, and applied political science (e.g., public policy analysis, elections, public administration, and quantitative methods). This effort is intended to strengthen workforce relevance, interdisciplinary connections, and long-term program sustainability. Nursing Action Plan – 2026-2031 Strategic Direction: Increasing Enrollment & Student Success Goal Statement: To increase nursing enrollment by cultivating a supportive environment where students thrive and succeed in their journey to become registered nurses.
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