Goal 1: Realize Our Student Commitments
Because we ask questions, champion solutions, and ceaselessly create, UHart Start focuses on teaching and learning.
UHart Start:
2020 - 2025
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OUR PLAN FOR STRATEGIC ACTION
The University of Hartford has an ambitious strategic action plan to transform the institution, ensure excellence, and sustain success.
Our Vision
Before outlining specific goals and objectives for direct action, UHart Start begins with a shared vision of a bright future that includes and involves our entire community.
Standing still is not an option.
The University of Hartford like many institutions of higher learning, stands at a pivotal juncture. Within the next five years, we will be ready to meet our promising future. But how will that future look and feel? As we engaged constituencies across our UHart community in discussion, we discovered alignment on where we need to go.
In the classroom and throughout campus, UHart's momentum is palpable. The time is now for us to take another significant leap forward.''
Where we are going—together.
OUR GOALS
Our careful and inclusive deliberation process identified six distinct goals that will guide UHart's active transformation through contributions by The President's Council, Staff Council, Faculty Senate, Student Government Association, and Board of Regents.
Goal 2: Commit Ourselves to the Success of All Students
Because students are our lifeblood, UHart Start emphasizes return on their investments of time, money, and effort.
Goal 3: Promote a Vibrant, Diverse, Inclusive, and Socially Just Community
Because we are a junction of many communities, UHart Start models equitable engagement practices.
Goal 4: Achieve and Maintain a Sustainable Budget
Because we rely on student-produced revenue without an expansive endowment, UHart Start reorients our financial model.
Goal 5: Revitalize the Physical Plant
Because we believe physical proximity promotes positive educational outcomes, UHart Start focuses on campus placemaking.
Goal 6: Elevate Brand Identity, Positioning, and Strategy
Because we have clear advantages, UHart Start outlines a favorable position in the higher education marketplace.
How we measure success
To hold ourselves accountable, the UHart Start Strategic Action Plan includes a set of metrics related to each of our goals. How we measure is as important as what we measure.
Data will be disaggregated by social and cultural categories, including race, gender identification, sexual orientation; and by segments of the community such as part time versus full time, college, department, and level of study.
To learn more about metrics of success, explore and expand details of Our Goals.
Timeline for Success
Each of our six guiding goals has been segmented into objectives,
with responsibilities assigned in these three phases:
NOW 2020–2023
To set a foundation for our future and address our most pressing issues, what must we accomplish first?
Get Phase 1 Details
SOON 2023–2025
Having completed an evaluation phase and begun our initial transition, which transformational activity must be completed next?
Get Phase 2 Details
LATER 2024– onward
As we reorient our University to its future, what initiatives and activities must we install to ensure excellence and sustain success on an ongoing basis?
Get Phase 3 Details
Roles and Responsibilities
UHart Start is built for action, with clearly assigned roles and alignment on our measurements of success.
Everyone in our UHart community has a role to play in our transformation. Progress will be monitored along the way, and oversight will roll up to the president and chief operating officer.
Expand details below to see key roles for individual and departments:
- The president and chief operating officer will lead plan engagement across the University
- Individuals and departments listed within the plan’s phases will activate key objectives
- The Resources, Planning, and Priorities Committee (led by the provost and CFO) will monitor progress on the plan, match budgetary planning to its requirements, and provide semiannual reports to the campus, president, and Board of Regents
The president and chief operating officer will ensure the Strategic Plan’s success.
- President’s Council
- Staff Council
- Faculty Senate
- Student Government Association
- Board of Regents
- Individuals across the University through ongoing dialogue within designated communication channels
- All current and prospective University of Hartford students, staff, and faculty
- Key partners, donors, and alumni
- Our broader Hartford-area communities
- The world at large
How You Can Help
We need your help to ensure our plan’s success!
Thank you for your interest in our strategic action plan. If you have comments, concerns, or a desire to take a more active role in shaping our future, please reach out!
You can email president@gregorybgallagher.com or contact your respective departmental representative.
Further Reading
For additional context surrounding UHart Start and strategic planning at our University, review the following materials: