Strategic Objective 1: Increase/maintain enrollment to meet the healthcare needs of communities we serve in Indiana and beyond.

• Attract and cultivate a student population that mirrors the communities’ graduates will serve, enhancing the institution’s ability to address the needs of society.
• Review and revise the admissions criteria to align with evidence-based holistic admissions processes that ensure that at risk groups are not unintentionally disadvantaged.
• Increase the visibility of the IU School of Nursing and improve its reputation by promoting its identity and impact.
• Strengthen enrollment through maintaining and developing rigorous academic programs that meet the needs of students, nursing practice, and more broadly the nursing discipline while enhancing the School of Nursing's reputation for excellence.
• Implement High Impact Teaching Practices in undergraduate curriculum.

Strategic Objective 2: Foster retention and graduation rates through academic excellence, wellness programming, and structures that foster community and connectedness.

• Implement a “Student Success” program across all campuses built on three pillars of success (academic, wellness and community) to ensure student retention.
• Enhance student engagement by providing a wider range of campus experiences and support activities at the School of Nursing.
• Create unique and transformative learning experiences for students that help establish the School of Nursing’s identity and enhance its reputation, in the classroom and beyond.
• Increase access to cost effective education, reduce debt burden, and enhance scholarship opportunities.

Strategic Objective 3: Increase/maintain enrollment to meet the healthcare needs of communities we serve in Indiana and beyond

• Develop and implement competency-based curricula for all CCNE accredited programs following Transparency in Learning and Teaching practices.
• Maintain and expand programs and services at the School of Nursing that prepare students for lifelong success and engaged citizenship and strengthen the school’s commitment to its alumni and beyond.
• Maintain and expand programs and services at the School of Nursing that prepare students for lifelong success and engaged citizenship and strengthen the school’s commitment to its alumni.

Strategic Objective: Develop, foster, and invest local, regional, national, and global partnerships and collaborative relationships to improve the health of Indiana communities and beyond.

• Build a formal infrastructure for an Academic Industry/ Practice/Community partnership based on AACN guidelines for A/P collaboratives.
• Develop a centralized partnership ontology (clinical placement, service, research, philanthropy).
• Optimize educational opportunities for students through partnerships by nurturing collaborations.
• Create an evidence-based transition to practice program for students and new graduates to assure “practice-ready” nurses.
• Develop a School of Nursing NP faculty practice to provide care to at-risk communities in Indiana.
• Create innovative School of Nursing service partnerships with industry, business, and other partners to mutually benefit the school and the partner.
• Create innovative partnerships with industry, business, and other partners to mutually benefit the school and the partner that support the School of Nursing research agenda.
• Raise awareness of progress by disseminating School of Nursing outcomes to communities we serve.

Strategic Objectives: 1) Establish and sustain a diverse culture in which students, faculty, and staff are welcoming, open, and respectful to create an environment for growth, belonging, and inclusiveness. 2) Create an environment where staff and faculty thrive and grow with the highest level of well-being.

• Provide a safe environment for psychological, emotional, and physical well-being for all faculty and staff.
• From interview process to onboarding, through service and retirement, create a spirit of belonging for all faculty and staff.

Strategic Objectives: 1) To create a level of faculty engagement that engages, supports, develops, attracts, and retains the highest quality faculty in the country so that they can be the top tier educators, researchers, and clinicians. 2) To create a level of staff engagement that engages, supports, develops, and attracts the highest quality staff and allows them to work to their highest level of job fulfillment and growth.

• Ensure all faculty and staff are able to work to their highest level of job fulfillment and growth.
• Develop a plan to attract early career faculty.
• Create a recruitment and retention plan for faculty that emphasizes the competitive advantage to be an IU faculty member.
• Become a school with excellent faculty retention and faculty development.
• Create a recruitment and retention plan for faculty that emphasizes the competitive advantage of being an IU Faculty member.
• Have an ongoing data set of Workforce Data to study current and future RN Workforce needs.
• Increase tenure track faculty at the School of Nursing through recruitment and retention of tenure track faculty mid to senior level.
• Ensure all staff are able to work to their highest level of job fulfillment and growth.
• Create and/or expand current orientation practice and onboarding.