Strategic Priority 4

TACTICS

• Reconnect with champions of our school ​(COMPLETE & ONGOING) ​​

  • Establish a communications plan identifying audiences and communications​​

  • Review past stakeholder lists and create plan to reengage each particular audiences​

    • Alumni​

      • Identify and analyze alumni list (location, positions, giving/not giving, school connections)​​

      • Partner with Social Work PRN to promote existing CEU opportunities to alumni and licensed social workers in Kansas​​

      • Update contact information for alumni​

      • Ask Advisory Board members to assist with contacting alumni and ask for updated info​​

      • Add a link to all alumni communications that allows them to update their contact information​

      • Send returned mailings and emails to KU Alumni Association​

      • Recognize alumni participation throughout the years by publicly displaying records such as past Alumni and Advisory Board presidents and alumni awards​

      • Resurrect the Annual Outstanding Alumni Award​

    • Donors​​

      • Pull list of promised estate gifts and schedule individual donor meetings​​

      • Analyze annual donor list over last 10 years​

      • Establish faculty committee to identify new donors from alumni list and/or social service leaders in Kansas and Missouri​

    • Social Service Agencies and Partners​​

      • Hire Associate Director of Field to work directly with field agencies​​

      • Collaborate with faculty and the Research Office to engage community partners​​

      • Establish a contact database​​

      • Visit agencies with thank you gifts​

      • Display publicly field instructor honors and awards​​

      • Analyze annual research office survey​​

    • Retired faculty and staff​​

      • Develop web page honoring retirees​​

      • Honor School history through the website, social media posts, conference room wall art panels, events such as the 30th Anniversary of the Strengths Perspective​​

      • Update the Transitions book and interview former deans from 1983 to present day​​

• Encourage involvement in activities with the School​​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING) ​​

  • Develop a detailed involvement list (such as serving on Advisory Board, input through surveying, talking with prospective and current students as mentors, etc.)​​

  • Seek regular input through surveys and focus groups and follow-up by providing results and outcomes​​

  • Increase engagement with young alumni - discussing a young alumni board where members are all over the world acting as ambassadors and invited back to campus for a one-time in-person meeting around Homecoming​​

• Award grant dollars for community-engaged projects​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING) ​​

• Increase research partners and funding sources​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING) ​​

• Establish the Center for Community Engagement and Collaboration​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING) ​​

TACTICS

• Resurrect Professional Continuing Education (PCE) and hired a dedicated PCE director​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

• Produce continuing education and agency support through the Center for Community Engagement & Collaboration (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

• Utilize online formats to deliver training and events (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

• Launch online MSW macro certificate and psychopathology course for non-degree licensure requirements​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

• Provide home visitor certificate (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

• Compile list of community needs through the Dean’s listening tour​ to better understand the current social work practice environment (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

• Evaluate and collect feedback at each event​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

• Allow non-degree seeking students to enroll in pre-PhD courses ​(IN PROGRESS)

• Realign Professor of the Practice positions to allow them to dedicate time and expertise to educational community offerings​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

TACTICS

• Serve the needs of rural communities by identify areas of Kansas that are suffering from a shortage of master’s level social workers and partner with higher education institutions in the area to develop more partnership sites: Garden City, Pittsburg, Salina​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

  • Track number of graduate employment rates in Partnership Site areas ​

  • Track number of Partnership Site graduates who choose to stay in the area after graduation ​

• Increase partnerships and events through the Center for Community Engagement and Collaboration​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

• Foster faculty and researcher projects that have direct impact on policies and advocate for our most vulnerable citizens ​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

• Sponsor local event with social work ties ​ (COMPLETE & ONGOING)

• Make an impact with economic and social contributions and activities (COMPLETE & ONGOING)