1.  Student Success – Ensure that NOVA students achieve significant academic outcomes, graduate and successfully transfer to a baccalaureate program or become employed in a career field related to their education.  Help the college make a commitment to continuously improve outcomes of student success:

• Graduation rates – Increase the number of graduates by 4.8%.
• Investigate graduation tracking by campus and develop a plan to increase AN graduates.
• Review and revise graduation application process.
• Review and revise academic advising process.
• Develop plan for summer academic advising.
• Support Academic Advising Week.
• Develop an information video for advising week.
• Invite service area students with 6 or fewer credits to graduate to attend Advising Week in Spring and develop an assessment process to track success.
• Retention rates – Increase the retention rate of degree credit students by 1%.
• Investigate retention tracking by campus and develop a plan to increase AN retention rates.
• Continue to support the Peer Tutoring Project for Dev. Math, ESL and Dev. English.
• Develop and implement a process to contact non-attending students.
• Continue to develop the “Early Alert” process and develop a process to assess results.
• Begin planning for CF Student Union.
• Identify and support an area for student space in CT Building.
• LRS expanding tutorial services to meet needs of an expanding ESL population, developmental level students and lab.
• Transfer rates – Increase the number of graduates transferring by 6.6%.
• Investigate the tracking/value of pre-graduation transfer.
• Plan and implement the college’s first year participation in the Lumina Foundation’s “Achieving the Dream” initiative.
• Support Achieving the Dream initiative on our campus.
• Implement Customer Service Model.
• Student Engagement – Increase opportunities for student engagement that result in a nurturing environment.
• Expand Intramural Program.
• Develop opportunities for interaction between students and administrators.
• Support Student Activities.
• Technology – Increase ease of use, support, availability and access to technology to include Section 508 compliance.
• Increase ease of web resources, use, support, availability and access to include Section 508 compliance.
• Increase FT faculty usage of professional pages by 10%; increase Adjunct faculty usage of professional pages by 10%
• Campus will provide access a student PC/study area in each building and wireless access in each building and outside in quad area.
• Promote increased usage of Open Computer Center.

2.  Teaching & Learning – Create an environment for world-class teaching and learning:

• Increase professional development opportunities by 5% for faculty & staff focusing upon improving teaching and student success to include the efforts of the campus to assist with the college’s Center for Teaching Excellence initiative.
• Support faculty and staff leadership efforts with state and national associations/ conference; increase by 5% the funds dedicated to this effort; encourage/support faculty publications in state & national journals.
• Expand strategic partnerships with George Mason U., Marymount U. and Howard U. through the Teaching Fellows Program.
• Enhance the diversity of a new generation of faculty and staff through the recruitment and hiring process.
• Continue updating campus master plan and implement beautification strategies that contribute to effective teaching and student learning.
• Technology – Enhance the effectiveness of instructional technology.
• Enhance the effectiveness of instructional technology through campus based workshops and pedagogical seminars offered by FSRC.
• Explore use of Smart Boards, or related technology, in the classrooms.
• Assess quality of campus learning environment and take appropriate action to increase quality where needed.
• Develop an assessment process to identify areas that need to be improved.
• Enhance the development of and the support for adjunct faculty.
• Develop adjunct faculty support services as a focal point of excellence.
• Increase support that enhances student learning.
• Full time faculty will teach at least one section of transfer courses in BUS, ACC and ITE.
• Pilot program for ACC 211-212 standardization including comprehensive ACC final to ensure success in higher level accounting courses.
• Increase and support, tutorial services to include new ESL Center.
• Increase student workshops to include MS workshops for students.

3.  Student Access – Increase the number and diversity of students being served to mirror the population growth of the region: 

• Increase student enrollment by 3% from 9,190 FTES to 9,466 FTES annual enrollments and 3% in non-credit courses.
• Continue to develop enrollment management strategies.
• Assess the impact of enrollment growth.
• Provide leadership for the expansion of “Pathway to the Baccalaureate” initiative.
• Increase from 500 to 750 high school seniors;
• 550 “Pathway students” at NOVA in fall, 2007;
• Develop plans for Alexandria schools to come into the program by fall, 2008 and Prince William schools to come into the program by fall, 2009.
• Develop CEWD plan that creates a strategic interface between key business sectors of the region and the college resulting in significant increases in workforce enrollments and a growing reputation for the Annandale Campus being seen as a strategic partner and training provider-of-choice for Northern Virginia businesses in workforce development.
• Increase the number and percentage of recent high school graduates enrolling at the Annandale Campus by 3%.
• LRS will do outreach with local high schools
• LRS will continue to provide off-site testing at local high schools.
• Increase the number of recent high school graduates entering post secondary Tech Prep programs by 5% over Fall 2006 levels.
• Fully develop and implement a growth strategy for the engineering program.
• Expand the campus outreach effort in increasing by 5% the number of students receiving financial aid.
• Offer online tutoring and interactive tutoring through the Tutoring Center.
• Support the college’s marketing of financial aid.

4.  Excellence – Develop focal points of excellence in NOVA’s educational programs and services and build the campus’ overall reputation for quality:

• Develop & begin implementation of specific plans for building focal points of excellence within EGR and Engineering Technology, ASL and INT, ACC.
• By the end of the academic year all Annandale ACC FT faculty will hold CPA certification.
• Complete the development and approval of the ASL Deaf Studies Degree.
• Increase participation in culinary/hospitality industry competition nationally and internationally.
• Support the college plan for building focal points of excellence within the arts & sciences, including world languages, and a campus honors program.
• Develop Honors efforts into a program.
• Develop Theatre and Film Studies Program
• Expand the work of the Faculty/Staff Resource Center dedicated to assisting faculty and staff in improving the quality of teaching and learning.
• Support the college’s targeted efforts for Phi Theta Kappa national awards, Outstanding Faculty of Virginia awards, Emeriti awards and Jack Kent Cooke Scholar awards.
• Develop a process to nominate faculty and staff for awards.

5.  Resources - Expand the college’s funding base during 2006-07:

• Work with the Alexandria Camps in investigating how the two campuses can help resolve CEWD concerns by combining resources and implement plan.
• Outreach activities- continuing education and workforce development activities that increase revenues from $4.3 to $4.5 million.
• Develop a strategy to increase grant funding to the campus.
• Increase outside sourcing for building of First Responder Homeland Security program.

6.  Regional & National Leadership - Serve as a catalyst in intersecting NOVA’s intellectual and educational resources with critical issues facing Northern Virginia and the nation to cause the college to be seen regionally and nationally as a leader:

• Encourage a greater number of AN faculty and staff become leaders regionally and nationally and share their work with others so as to help build the college’s reputation for leadership and innovation.
• Highlight the achievements of faculty and staff.
• Develop guidelines for financially supporting faculty and staff member’s participation in national and regional organizations.
• Explore incentives to encourage faculty and staff to become regional and national leaders.

7.  Partnerships – Develop strategic partnerships with government agencies, traditional and non-traditional institutions of higher education, community-based organizations and schools and school divisions:

• Increase dual enrollment FTEs in FCPS from 11.1 to 17.4 FTES.
• Establish a collaborative effort with Community Business Partnership around the idea of a joint program targeted to minority and immigrant entrepreneurs.
• Establish training and education partnerships with Fire Science and Fire Chiefs of Northern Virginia.

8.  Planning & Accountability:

• Develop strategic plan in alignment with the college’s strategic plan.
• Develop a strategic plan for educational programs through the year 2015 in alignment with the college’s strategic plan.
• Academic deans will work with faculty and the Academic Deans Council through the clusters and the Office of the Executive Vice President to develop plan.
• Integrate the college’s annual planning processes with outcomes assessment compatible with requirements of SACS.
• Provost will work with campus planning facilitator to ensure integration.
• Continue the renovation of CS building in a timely fashion so that the funded project proceeds on schedule.
• Continue planning for Phase VI on the Annandale Camps Master Plan in a timely fashion so that the funded project proceeds on schedule.
• Evaluate instructional space in relation to educational program development.
• Dedicate Provost Staff time to strategically plan.
• Develop a retro-fit plan for the CG building.
• Appoint a Committee tasked with developing recommendations for functional use.
• Determine vacant space available
• Evaluate compatibility of vacated space with functions to be housed in CG (square footage, space ‘’type,’ timeframe, etc.
• Develop Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M).
• Enhance Campus Emergency Preparedness Plan.
• Update Emergency Preparedness Website
• Update Faculty Staff & Student Guidance Cards
• Install Classroom Guidance information packets in all Campus Classrooms
• Enhance Campus Emergency Preparedness Plan.
• Continue renovations as outlined in the Master and Beautification Plans.
• Upper Plaza, CT Plaza Entrance, CG Second Floor.
• Complete 2006-2007 projects in process.
• Expand the Fitness Center
• Complete “Wall of Friends.”

9.  Leadership & Restructuring - Restructure a number of administrative and support functions to increase organizational capacity, efficiency & effectiveness

• Complete the evaluation of the effectiveness of the restructured student services center and functions.
• Evaluate the newly renovated Student Services facility and integrate results into the customer service model.
• Review the restructuring of the LRS unit.
• Explore reorganization options for LRS that enhance campus efficiencies and increased students’ academic success and teaching/learning on the campus.
• Provide leadership training opportunities/discussions/seminars for campus administrators.
• Continue to explore how to enhance campus administration to include assistance with hiring issues/processes, etc.
• Continue to review campus administrative structure.
• Review need for personnel who support faculty and staff.
• Evaluate campus hiring process.