CHHS Beach 2030 Strategic Planning

CHHS strategic priorities and their alignment with the university strategic priorities are reflected in Table 1 below. CHHS strategic priorities were derived from AY 18-19 input from CHHS units, community partners, CHHS Faculty Council, and CHHS faculty, staff, and community partner input from the Imagine Beach 2030 event. In September of each academic year, CHHS will evaluate the previous AY strategic action steps, evaluate goal achievement, and develop new AY goals and related action steps to advance each strategic priority. An outline of achievements in each AY will be reflected in the Strategic Priorities Background and Outline of Achievements section. 

Table 1. University Strategic Priorities and Action Plans Aligned with CHHS Strategic Priorities

University Strategic Priorities CHHS Strategic Priorities 

1. Engage All Students   ​

2. Expand Access 

3. Promote Intellectual Achievement

4. Build Community 

5. Cultivate Resilience 

1. Define, Support & Assess Student, Faculty, and Staff Success (strategic priorities 1,2&3) 

2. Develop and Implement Innovative Course and Program Delivery Methods (strategic priorities 1,2&3) 

3. Broaden Community Engagement and Advance Community Partnerships (strategic priorities 2,4&5)

4. Facilitate and Support Interdisciplinarity (strategic priorities 3&4) 

5. Designed Climate & Culture (strategic priority 4) 

6. Promote Financial Growth & Stability (strategic priority 5) 

CHHS Core Values

Integrity

Students, faculty, and staff in the College of Health and Human Services act with integrity. We adhere to policy, accept responsibility for actions, and promote inclusion, communication, respect for others and divergent views, honesty, and fairness.

Growth Mindset

Students, faculty, and staff in the College of Health and Human Services believe that individual and collective talents can be developed through hard work, persistence, good strategies, and input from others.

Collaboration

The College of Health and Human Services supports interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, students, and our community to stimulate and foster excellence in education and research innovation, responsiveness to pressing health and human services problems, and the growth of existing partnerships and the development of new ones.

Innovation

The College of Health and Human Services conducts research to advance the education of our students and the multiple academic disciplines that comprise the college. We aim to increase understanding, discover scientific breakthroughs, and enhance the communities we serve.

AY 24-25 Strategic Plan

Goals (or objectives)Action PlanActor(s)

Student Success

Prior Goal #1 (Student success): Increase three and four year persistence rates for CHHS FTFY  

and one and two year persistence rates for transfer students (>75%) 

 

Prior Goal #2 (Student success): Increase by 25% the numbers of under-represented 

minorities FTFY students within CHHS by Fall 2028. 

 

Prior Goal #3 (Student success): Increase students' feelings of connection to departments 

Continue with existing programs/events (e.g. Beach XP, Day at the Beach, middle/HS outreach events) 

 

Expand AY plan based on initial  meeting (8/21) and regular bimonthly meetings with AD and Co-Directors for Student Success and Access.  

Tiffanye 

Co-Directors for Student Success and Access 

Faculty Success

1. Develop standards and procedures to implement differential (post tenure) TT faculty workload. 

 

 

  1. Educate faculty on minimum teaching workload, equity, and RTP Requirements. 
  1. Townhall meetings by FC on CHHS RTP policies. 
  1. Departments revise RTP documents and integrate them into department’s RTP policy. 
  1. Create FAQs for the website.

 

 

Faculty Retreat group

Chris Campbell 

Virginia Gray 

Grace Reynolds-Fisher 

Janaki Santhiveeran

2. Develop standards and implement equity minded workload for TT faculty. 
  1. Share equity document with all faculty. 
  1. Department chairs create draft with policies on AT allocation. 
  1. All chairs present department policies at council of chairs. 
  1. Incorporate principles of equity into college constitution and bye laws. 
  1. Chairs produce matrix of AT for distribution to all faculty each semester. 
  1. Dean’s office publishes all AT’s with process. 
  1. Post all AT work accomplished forms online.  
  1. Integrate DEIA component to AT plan. 

Staff Success

1. Reconstitute a staff committee 

Have the HR and finance leads make recommendations for potential members by Sept 1; Michael work with Jonathan to take nominations from the staff to vote on staff members from the college by Sept 15 vote in at least one person.  

Michael 

Jonathan 

2. Streamline onboarding process 
  • Hire an ASM by Sept 15 
  • Bring in all staff hired in last 24 months to get their experiences (for feedback?). Put everyone in one room – Oct 15 

 

Committee to take that input to ASM to finalize a plan an onboarding before winter break; implementing plan by April 1. 

Michael
3. Reform and Institutionalize staff huddles by Nov. 1 
  1. Get area supervisors together by Sept 1 And have them develop a schedule to hold huddles for every other month and develop topics for first three staff huddles by Sept 15.  
  1. Facilities Tech 
  1. Advising 
  1. Administration 
4. Bring Back All Staff HuddlesTo be held twice a year and ASM & Director of Operations and Dean would have that schedule set by Oct. 1. (schedule for the year)New ASM
5. Increase opportunities for interdepartmental interfacing 

Schedule a CPACE Open House before Oct. 15 to be held for various work areas to run alongside HHS/CPaCE growth model  

  

AP & Purchasing by Dec 15 

Michael/Jonathan
6. Make Staff Development Robust and Expected 

Create an online anonymous mechanism for staff to recommend trainings they are interested in by Sept. 30. Responses would go:   

  1. ASM 
  2. DOD 
  1. Staff Committee 

Set up CPACE trainings  

  1. Email training 
  1. AI 
  1. Leadership 

 

CHHS Trainings  

  1. Data Warehouse 
  1. Reconciliation 
  2. Staff could request to take a specific training by Jan. 30th
7. Fix Staff Trainings 

Have all existing trainings converted to video by end of fall

Interactive forms would be created by end of spring

Leads and ASM
8. Set group activity meetings 

1.Restart reconciliation lab by end of Sept.  

2.Come up with other ideas for group activities (staff committee) by Nov 15.   

Goals (or objectives)Action PlanActor(s)

At the end of (year) 80% of upper division courses will include student learning objective that requires students to apply info they have learned to new situations. 

 

Establish and/or promote recognition of academic and professional excellence (e.g. rankings, competitions, info distribution [newsletter, websites, social media], create marketing plans) 

Fall 2024: Review UD courses for each dept. to determine baseline compliance 

 

Revise courses to meet criteria (Spring 2024)  

 

 

 

At least once per semester:  

  • Create tabs on websites that point to achievements 
  • Have depts establish or maintain PR/outreach efforts 

Dept chairs/directors and dept curriculum committee (Fall 2024) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHHS PR, CPACE, Dept. chairs/dir., faculty/staff 

CHHS Embedded CPaCE ModelRedefine student learners and develop new programs to support their needs through the Embedded CHHS CPaCE  enterprise.  

Monica 

Chris Swarat/CPaCE team 

Dept Chairs/Directors 

Issues with developing goals related to teaching excellence:  

  • Difficult to identify how to facilitate improvement 
  • Faculty center limitations 
  • Consider if better to have CHHS person to be faculty developer to have help come from within college. 
  • Too much content within this priority; beyond scope of any one committee 
  • How to define teaching excellence because it might be discipline/dept specific 
  • Learn what other colleges are doing 

Goals (or objectives)Action PlanActor(s)
Goal 1: Meet with key people (e.g. dept. chairs, etc) to outline collaboration by Spring 2025  

Erlyana Erlyana 

Department Chairs/Directors 

Goal 2: Enhance partnerships Enhance partnership list to include or expand the type of involvement/engagement each partner has within CHHS by Spring 2025 

Erly  

Dept. Chairs/Directors 

Nancy  

Jen Moore 

Create partnership recognition for Convocation Fall 2025 

Jonathan 

Sharon 

Nancy 

Nora 

Dean’s office leadership 

Goal 3: Develop department/school boards Each department to create/share name of board; description for board responsibility/expected contributions; list of members with titles and affiliation  

Department chairs/directors 

Jen M. to assist as needed  

Goal 4:  

Expand and create mutually beneficial partnerships that support student recruitment and retention, enhance student training and practice/application, and supply the workforce. 

  1. Meet with relevant community organizations and LBUSD contacts to informally gather information on perceived benefits of working with CHHS. Completed in the fall of 2024.  
  1. Create a list of important individuals and organizations that should be invited to CHHS pathway to access discussions. Completed in the fall of 2024.   
  1. Formalize goals, meeting schedules and benefits for CHHS pathway and access discussion groups. To be completed in the spring of 2025
Co-Directors of Student Success and Access.  

 

Goal (or objectives)Action PlanActor(s)

Goal 1: Promote and facilitate interdisciplinary research

Goal 2: Develop a college interprofessional education (IPE/Simulation) 

  1. Create faculty affiliation opportunities (Council of Center Directors) – fall 2024 - CHHS promote center affiliation – spring 2025 
  1. AD for FAR will commission at least one interdisciplinary research team to submit a large-scale federal grant 

A. Explore funding priority areas of research that are also a research focus of CHHS interdisciplinary faculty (e.g., HIV/AIDS related research (alcohol, drugs, co-occurring diseases); autism; chronic disease prevention (obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart health)  

B. Reach out to department chairs to plan a series of small priority area meetings with related externally funded faculty to explore collaborations– fall 2024  

  1. AD for FAR will commission at least one interdisciplinary research team to submit a large-scale federal grant 

A. Research Council will work with CHHS-Tech to develop a mechanism from RSCA proposals that identifies faculty research areas.  

 

B. Clarify intended outcome(s) for research convening meetings and outline a plan for inviting, scheduling, developing agenda, and assessing effectiveness and present to Dean and AD for FAR along with budget request 

AD FAR/Retreat group: 

Kamiar Alaei 

Melawhy Garcia 

Monica Lounsbery 

Melissa Dyo 

Jason Aurand 

Goal (objectives)Action PlanActor(s)
Goal 1. Acknowledge collective faculty efforts in implementing DEIA values into research, teaching, and service 

1.1 Request faculty publications or presentations related to diversity, equity, inclusion, & accessibility (DEIA) from AY 23-24 through AY 24-25 (with progress summary report to be shared at end of Spring ‘25  

 

1.2 Integrate DEIA language and include a specific section on the college RTP/Lecturer Evaluation document and a submission link for DEIA materials within the categories of teaching, service, and RSCA on the Interfolio platform by Spring 2025. 

 

1.3 Offer awards for faculty (including lecturers) who excel in integrating DEIA into their teaching, service, and RSCA. 

 

1.4 Create promotional material (i.e. video/photos) that highlight the commitment to DEIA work among faculty (e.g., clips of interactive class activities, student interviews, and lectures). 

DEIA Champion & DEIA Co-Chairs; Support from PR Lead (Goal 1.4); Consultation with Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Research and FacultyCouncil (Goal 1.1-1.3)   
Goal 2. Develop clear observable and measurable DEIA metrics for CHHS DEIA 
  1. Examine current metrics being used in higher education and identify those that have been effective. 
  1. Look at our current university dashboards to ensure that metrics chosen can be monitored and measured for outcomes related to DEIA initiatives. 
DEIA Co-Chairs; DEIA Champion; consultation/collaboration with Student Success Co-Directors 
Goal 3. Draft a 3-year DEIA plan for improvement on identified metrics 
  1. Once metrics are identified, draft a 1-year and 3-year plan of implementation. 
  1. Co-Chairs will obtain training, mentorship and networking specific to DEIA efforts in higher education  
DEIA Co-Chairs; consultation/collaboration with Student Success Co-Directors 
Goal 4. Participate in outreach and relationship building with community stakeholders (including from schools and community centers). Participate in the creation of the “CHHS Community Advisory Board” (official name TBD) to assist in recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority (URM) students into CHHS. Student Success AND DEIA Co-Directors; Consultation with Associate Dean of Student Success & Academic Affairs   
Goal 5. Represent CHHS DEIA initiatives on campus-related committees/groups 
  1. Participate in university-level discussions related to DEIA as part of the DEIA Collaborative 
  1. Serve in a consultative role for Faculty Council and/or CHHS RTP processes, as needed 
DEIA Co-Chairs 
Goal 6. Increase recruitment and retention of URM students. 
  1. Collaborate with Outreach Office to support DEIA efforts at community recruitment events. 
  1. Collaborate with CHHS Co-Chairs of Student Success to support DEIA efforts for transfer students. 
  1. Collaborate with the Pathways Program to support DEIA efforts in primary and secondary education.
DEIA Co-Chairs; DEIA Champion; Student Success Co-Directors

Health/Wellness, Belonging/Connectedness 

 

Gwen Bates 

Nancy Espinosa 

Nancy Meyer-Adams 

Terry Robertson 

Lucy Van Otterloo 

Establish practices that support health, wellness, and belonging by regularly scheduling activities in the college and department that become the norm.  

 

Identify staff/faculty level of connectedness by completing climate survey.  

 

Make campus resources more accessible to staff/faculty. 

 

Revised Goal to -  

 

Identify cultural norms and establish regularly ongoing activities that promote belonging, connectedness, health and wellness. 

  1. Ask Health and Wellness Advisory Board to develop, distribute and analyze data/ outcomes. (early September)  
  1. Survey faculty/ staff on feelings of connectedness/ belonging and morale. (September)  
  1. Develop a college event schedule. (Summer/ early Fall)  
  1. Establish and promote fall wellness event at the college level. (Launch first week of October)  
  1. Reestablish wellness Wednesday via email. (Eventually Life Fit Director would oversee this)   

Health and Wellness Advisory Board 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

College Event Staff 

 

 

Jonathan/ LifeFit Director  

 

 

 

LifeFit Director