Improve the learning and career outcomes of our students through more rigorous and relevant academic programs, meaningful enrichment activities, and improved academic and career advising.

Strategic Initiatives

• Increase rigor and academic integrity.
• Promote, support, incentivize, and reward teaching excellence among all faculty members and graduate teaching assistants.
• Create or enhance enrichment activities to support intellectual, social, and emotional development of our students.
• Provide innovative academic advising.
• Provide innovative career advising.
• Increase integration of academic and career advising.
• Expand international focus.

Action Steps

• Guide and champion a Gatton Code of Conduct for students, faculty, and staff that fosters professionalism, classroom behavior, ethics, civility, social responsibility, and academic integrity.
• Establish a new honors program in Social Enterprise and other selective departmental honors programs that complement the new Lewis Honors College at UK.
• Develop research opportunities for undergraduates and provide venues for presentation of their work.
• Invest in academic and career advising, emphasizing innovative integration of both types of advising.
• Initiate departmental and college teaching awards.
• Expand internship opportunities, international experiences, and other enrichment activities.

Metrics

• First-to-second year retention
• Graduation rates
• Improved results in the assessment of learning outcomes
• Student employment outcomes
• Rate of student participation in international opportunities