CHCS Strategic Plan 2020-2025

Nova Southeastern University, Copyright © 2019 3 Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences GOALS AND OUTCOMES GOALS Goal #1 : Implement a comprehensive program to attract and retain highly qualified faculty Continuing Pursuits/Faculty Outcomes  Faculty salaries will be at the median with a target of the 75 th percentile of peer institutions.  Benchmark other universities’ benefits packages, other than salaries, including cost of living, tuition reimbursement, merit raises, and promotion policies and revising our compensation package to be competitive with the benchmarks so as to attract and retain highly qualified faculty.  Continue offering faculty development courses through the Center for Academic and Professional Excellence to develop current faculty in the areas of Teaching and Learning, Leadership and Management, and Research. Consider opening the Center for Academic and Professional Excellence to other colleges and programs within the university.  Continue to develop and/or hire noted and diverse faculty scholars whose appointments would enhance the functioning and reputation of the PCHCS programs.  Continue to develop Programs’ Best Practices, publishing them in reports, posters, newsletters, and HPERS and presenting them at PCHCS faculty meeting presentations and at PCHCS seminars.  Using benchmarking and the developing programmatic evaluation process, develop user-friendly, program/discipline-specific faculty practice guidelines to define faculty workload.  Continue to offer faculty development seminars appropriate to individual PCHCS professions that feature teaching experts in diverse subject matters. Offer these experts’ seminars to other colleges in the university.