The USM in 2010: 

Responding to the Challenges that Lie Ahead

Coppin State College

Mission: Founded in 1900, Coppin State College is a public, urban college. The integration of the instructional and public service roles of the institution results in high quality academic programs and provisions for health care, social services, and correctional and law enforcement personnel to the community. The college serves as a repository for African American culture.

Goal I

USM academic programs will evolve to meet the changing educational needs of a growing and increasingly diverse undergraduate and graduate student population and will enhance the quality of life for all Maryland citizens.

UG Resident Tuition

• Stabilize increases in resident undergraduate tuition at no more than 3% annually through fiscal year 2005.
• Maintain fundraising for scholarships at 9% of private giving income.
• Increase the percent of average financial aid being met with grants and scholarships by 1%.

Minority Achievement

• Strengthen academic and student support services programs in order to improve 2-year retention and 6-year graduation rates.
• Maintain 2+2 articulation and collaborative programs with area community colleges.
• Increase the 2-year retention rate and 6-year graduation rate to a level similar to CSC's peer institutions.
• Increase to 40% the percentage of graduates pursuing graduate instruction.

Baby Boom Echo

• By 2005, increase headcount enrollment by 3% each year, providing access for nontraditional and minority students.
• By 2005, increase full-time equivalent enrollment by an average of 1% each year.

Undergraduate Education

• Add several new academic programs in the arts and sciences, education, nursing, and human services.
• Add student housing and dining facility to campus community in order to provide quality undergraduate education for expected enrollment growth.
• Maintain the number of regionally and nationally accredited academic programs.
• Implement inter-disciplinary learning communities.
• Enhance and expand undergraduate programs that focus on providing greater access to minority students.

Online Learning

• Increase the number of faculty involved in the design and implementation of Web-based courses.
• Increase by 10% students enrolled in off-campus and/or through distance education programs.
• Use Web enabled technologies to enhance the learning environment.

Life-Long learning

• Expand and enhance Cantor Master in Education distance learning degree program.
• Expand MDLN distance learning classroom.
• Develop and deliver nursing education and health distance learning program.

Competition & Program Development

• Continue collaborative academic programs with UB, other USM institutions, and other public/private institutions.
• Develop and implement academic programs that prepare graduates to provide human services to the State's increasingly racially diverse and aging citizenry.

Technologically competent workforce

• Bridge the digital divide across campus units and academic programs of study by providing greater access to technology in support of students' educational goals.
• Advance capability of information technology infrastructure for instruction, administration, student services, and fundraising.
• Upgrade existing computing equipment to support current and emerging technologies.
• Build state-of-the-art smart classrooms equipped with video conferencing and distance education facilities.
• Create a proactive learning environment and curriculum by utilizing information technology based productivity tools.
• Add information technology based solutions in courses across the curriculum to enhance teaching and learning outcomes.
• Maximize funding for information technology initiatives.
• Increase the number of computers available to students.
• Expand and upgrade the existing voice, video, data, and telecommunications technology for a homogeneous network to support communications.
• Establish central repository(ies) where current, consistent, and coordinated information technology materials will be available to client groups.

Teacher Shortage

• Increase number of teacher education graduates who attain 85% passing rate on the Praxis I and II examinations by 5%.
• Increase by 5% the number of graduates hired by Baltimore metropolitan area public schools.
• Increase the number of teacher education majors.
• Develop strategies to ensure that teacher education faculty and teacher candidates are proficient in the use of information technology in their work.

IT Shortage

• Increase by 5% the percent of graduates of management science and computer science programs employed in Information Technology fields in the State.

Nursing Shortage

• Increase number of faculty and staff and improve academic and clinical facilities in order to provide quality education to growing student enrollment in the Family Nurse Practitioner program.
• Develop and implement with the Division Nurse Recruiter a strategic plan for the recruitment of students.
• Promote the integration of technology into the Nursing program of study using multi-media tools and techniques including Web delivery of instructional materials and distance education components.

Pharmacist Shortage

• Maintain dual degree program in pharmacy with the University of Maryland at Baltimore.

Goal II

USM research and scholarship will position Maryland as a national leader in science, technology and other key areas, providing the knowledge and infrastructure to ensure the State's continued economic growth, sustainable development and international competitiveness.

Competition for Faculty

• Increase the proportion of faculty members with terminal degrees.
• Increase faculty salaries to the 85^th percentile of peer institutions.

Faculty Development

• Promote greater access to technology for students and faculty to include the requisite information technology infrastructure for distance learning and Web-based instructional projects.

Staff Development

• Provide instructional designers, instructional technologists and technical support personnel for distance learning and Web-based instructional programs.

Libraries

• Provide facilities for a general-use laboratory (when not in library or instruction use), an electronic classroom for library and instruction sessions and faculty and staff training instruction sessions.

Academic Health Centers

• Expansion of the Nursing Health Center to accommodate community outreach goals to neighboring schools and the provision of increased primary health care services to the campus community.

Goal III

The USM will achieve its legislative mandate of national eminence and its fundamental mission to serve the public good while carefully managing growth and developing System resources.

Community Service

• Increase by 10% the number of day's faculty and students spend in community outreach and service to the Central City of Baltimore, Maryland government, and Baltimore City schools.
• Strengthen and increase the internship sites in the metropolitan Baltimore area in Social Work, Applied Psychology, Rehabilitation Counseling and Criminal Justice.

Other Management/Effectiveness Strategies

• Increase facility renewal and renovation expenditures to 2% of the replacement value by fiscal year 2005.

Philanthropy and Entrepreneurial Partnerships

• Increase revenues from external funding and private support to a cumulative $7.5 million