Communication Disorders Strategic Plan
2021-2024 Strategic Plan
Focus Area: Student Engagement
- Initiate and upper classmen or graduate mentorship program for undergraduates in major
- Develop guidelines for faculty mentors and student mentors
- Revise Bootcamp for incoming graduate cohort: assigning multiple faculty to teach topics or run activity within it.
- Promote undergraduate student involvement in faculty and clinical research through independent studies or funding
Focus Area: Recruitment and Retention of Students
- Develop an informative flyer to send to high schools to promote the Communication Sciences and Disorders major at ISU.
- Connect with the university’s Project Success
- Use CD 119 as a recruitment course: Have faculty/adjuncts to present a day or two in area of interest/specialty; engage community
- practitioners in course
- Invite HS senior/juniors to campus or virtual meeting through HS counselors
- Develop undergraduate section of website
- Consider developing on-line pre-requisite/leveling courses; SLP-Assistant program
Focus Area: Faculty Recruitment and Development
- Recruit tenure-track and/or instructor faculty to fill retirement opening
- Stabilize instructor lines
- Ensuring money for CEUs from the department for all levels of faculty
Focus Area: Diversity and Inclusiveness
- Develop contacts with high schools having underrepresented minority groups
- Develop study abroad or other global experiences
Focus Area: Accountability/Challenging students to achieve excellence
- Stress expected level of professionalism to students, level of commitment for class and clinic.
- Institute summative and formative assessments in each class at both the undergraduate and graduate levels
- Develop pre-tests of knowledge covered in previous courses to stop re-teaching concepts
Focus Area: Expanding opportunities
- Increasing literacy/reading as a service that we provide in the clinic.
- Initiate Adult aphasia support groups
- Increase interprofessional practice opportunities with school psychology and special education
- Investigate training or other forms of grants to support students and faculty scholarship
- Explore converting CD 119 into a Foundational studies course