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Goal 1: This College leads the university, community, and region in providing an essential liberal arts and sciences education that prepares students for an increasingly global context and economy. Activity Baseline 2015-16 Measure of Success for 2017-18 Measure of Success for 2019-20 Responsible Group or Individual Definition, Source or Notes Goal 1a: Promote a liberal education and broadly communicate the value of such an educational experience. (ISP 1g) Identify ways to communicate the value of a liberal arts and sciences education, in addition to the role of the College is providing that education. Create or broaden our communication strategies/messages across numerous e.g., CAS newsletter for alumni and community partners, videos, and more. Assess promotional materials and their effectiveness. Departments, Director of Community Partnerships Development (magazine) and University Relations (help with website and social media) These programs are already happening, just need to be more consistently promoted by the college Goal 1b: Actively recruit and retain undergraduate and graduate students; increase degree completion rates. (ISP 3a) Inventory of data and strategies, including department and program retention data and graduation rates. Create or refine department retention plans. Determine appropriate goals, e.g., exceed institutional retention and degree completion averages. Identify and implement best practices to improve retention data and graduation rates by department/program/ discipline as a way to determine our own best practices. Implement strategies to build a culture around our students (supporting student clubs, student research conferences, etc.) Consider creation of "Student Mentors" or "CAS Assess best practices or strategies to improve retention data and graduation rates across the College. Assess student support structures at the department and college levels. OPEIR, Dean's office, department heads, faculty, staff, professional and faculty advisors, NSSE and FSSE data will help us determine what is successful. (The challenge will be to determine why.) Student Development More specifically, we may build a more robust advisement program, improve advisement training, improve advisement from freshmen to sophomore years as students transition from CASS advisors to professional or faculty advisors in their major. A significant challenge in the short term will involve students who come in with 2 years of level