Strategic Planning

UNF’s Institutional Effectiveness Team has identified a strategic planning and continuous improvement process designed to enable the institution to become effective in achieving its mission and goals. This process is based upon the principle that each organizational unit (division, college, school, department, center/institute, office, or program) will embrace and actively engage in activities of planning, assessing, learning and improving.

An added benefit of engaging in this strategic planning and continuous improvement process will be the university’s ability to demonstrate compliance with two key components stipulated in the SACS Principles of Accreditation: Foundation for Quality.

Core Requirement 2.5 The institution engages in ongoing, integrated, and institution-wide research-based planning and evaluation processes that incorporate a systematic review of programs and services that (a) results in continuing improvement, and (b) demonstrates that the institution is effectively accomplishing its mission.

Comprehensive Standard 3.3.1 The institution identifies expected outcomes, assesses the extent to which it achieves these outcomes, and provides evidence of improvement based on anaylysis of the results in each of the following areas:

• 3.3.1.1: educational programs, to include student learning outcomes;
• 3.3.1.2: administrative support services;
• 3.3.1.3: educational support services;
• 3.3.1.4: research within its educational mission, if appropriate; and
• 3.3.1.5: community/public service within its educational mission, if appropriate.

In order to meet the SACS requirement of core requirement 2.5 and comprehensive standard 3.3.1, each unit must demonstrate that it has focused over an extended period of time on the systematic improvement of at least several actions crucial to the attainment of its mission.