Strategic Plan 2010-2014

Goal I: Quality

Set policy and advocate for continuous improvement of the quality of Idaho’s educational system.

Objectives:

1. To facilitate the recruitment and retention of a diverse and highly qualified workforce of teachers, faculty, and staff, continue the development of a career advancement, professional development, and compensation system that recognizes and rewards knowledge, skills, and productivity.
• Performance Measure:
  Board governed agency and institution personnel total compensation as a percent of peer organizations.
• Benchmark:
  Teachers, faculty, and staff should enjoy good working conditions and be compensated at levels comparable (90-100 percent) to peer public and private organizations (normalized by the Consumer Price Index and location).
2. Increase the availability of highly qualified teachers, especially in high need areas.
• Performance Measure:
  Number of Idaho teachers who are certified each year by specialty and meet the Federal Highly Qualified Teacher definition.
• Benchmark:
  Numbers of certified teachers are adequate to meet demand.
3. Enhance the State’s infrastructure and capacity for biomedical research through collaborative efforts between our three public universities and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) Biomedical Research Expansion Initiative.
• Performance Measure
  Total dollar amount of grants for biomedical research (funded externally from state resources).
  Number of biomedical researchers being trained and number of researchers engaged in biomedical research at the VAMC facility.
• Benchmark
  Total dollar value of biomedical research grant funding (external of state resources) increases.
4. Improve the service delivery model for infants, toddlers, children, and youth who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, or hard of hearing, including those with additional disabilities or deafblindness.
• Performance Measure:
  Satisfaction of parents of infants, toddlers, children, and youth who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, or hard of hearing, including those with additional disabilities or deafblindness.
• Benchmark:
  The number of parents of infants, toddlers, children, and youth satisfied with services in the state will be at least 90%.
5. Continuously evaluate and make additions as necessary to service delivery models for transition age youth and adults with disabilities.
• Performance Measure:
  The number of eligible transitioning youth and adults who have become successfully employed.
• Benchmark:
  The number of youth and adults successfully employed will be equal to or greater than the preceding year.
6. Support and enhance the state’s infrastructure and capacity for collaborative research efforts within and among Idaho public universities and colleges and between those institutions and various state, federal, NGO, and private entities.
• Performance Measure:
  Total dollar amount of competitive, externally funded, grants in collaboration with state, federal, NGO, and private entities.
• Benchmark:
  Total dollar value of advanced energy studies grant funding (external of state resources) increases.
• Performance Measure:
  Competitive external funding for research per faculty FTE.
• Benchmark:
  External funding for research per faculty FTE is equivalent to peer institutions.
• Performance Measure:
  Success at gaining grants requiring statewide cooperation among the universities and colleges, e.g., EPSCoR and INBRE and equitability of distribution of funding among the participating institutions.
• Benchmark:
  Total $$ of cooperative funding exceeds that of peer EPSCoR states.
  Funding distribution among universities and colleges is equitable.
• Performance Measure:
  Number of patents and startup companies that result from university funding.
• Benchmark:
  Total # of patents per year increases each year.
  Total number of startups increases each year.
7. Create an annual review of the college and university mission statements process.

Board Overview

Goal II: Access

Goal III: Accountability

Key External Factors