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POD Network Strategic Plan
2007-2012
(final draft, January 30, 2008)
Goal 1: To enhance POD’s
infrastructure and services to members
Objectives and Strategies | Responsibility
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Objective 1:
Continuously clarify the scope of POD’s work
Strategy 1: Review
mission: revise and update as needed
Strategy 2: Review
appropriateness of POD name
Strategy 3: Survey
membership re: scope of work, member needs and aspirations
for organization, range of services, quality of services
Objective 2: Align
POD’s staffing with current and future needs
Strategy 1: Initiate
study of POD’s growth patterns and finance needs and
project the nature of the infrastructure need to respond to such growth in a way that enhances the quality
of service offered to members
Strategy 2: Initiate
review of leadership roles including the Executive
Director, President, Past-President, President-
Elect, Committee Chairs, POD Core
Strategy 3: Consider
modernizing conference, registration processes and hiring
work-study or temporary staff to assist
with mailings in the POD home office
Strategy 4: Review
conference team and volunteer structure and workload
distribution
Objective 3: Align
committee structures and functions (including Executive
Committee and Core Committee) to accurately reflect POD’s
instructional, individual, and organizational development
foci
Strategy 1: Review
scope and function of committees
Strategy 2: Review
policies and procedures for committee nomination process
and committee membership and chair
selection
Strategy 3: Clarify
procedures for virtual committee meetings
Objective 4: Develop a
5-year plan for revenue generation and distribution to
support expanded member services
Strategy 1: Develop
policy and procedure for gifting
Strategy 2: Develop
additional institutes, conferences and publications
Strategy 3: Develop
online professional development opportunities for members
and non-members
Objective 5: Develop policy and procedures for
mentoring of POD leadership (Executive Committee, Core
Members,
Committee Chairs)
Strategy 1: Allocate
time at POD Core meetings to develop mentoring plan
Strategy 2: Executive
committee will present 3 year mentoring plan to Core for
approval and implementation
Goal 2: To support continuous
professional development opportunities for POD
practitioners
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Objective 1: Define
the knowledge and skills base necessary for practice in
the profession and consider how these may change as
organization and field changes.
Strategy 1: Develop a
scholarship of faculty development (SoFD)
Strategy 2: Develop a
plan for continuous improvement and professional
development for faculty developers
Strategy 3: Support
and contribute to research that reviews the impact of
professional development for faculty development
practitioners.
Objective 2: Develop and support research and
programs that investigate the multiples pathways and
points of entry
into the profession.
Strategy 1: Identify
policies and procedures for preparation and entry into
faculty development.
Strategy 2: Develop a
guide/handbook for potential employers of faculty
developers.
Strategy 3: Examine
the career development stages of faculty developers,
illuminating the embedded values.
Strategy 4: Survey
experienced faculty developers to determine their pathways
to the profession
Strategy 5: Identify
examples of the successful mentoring of faculty developers
Objective 3: Develop and support policies and
procedures for Graduate student preparation and entry into
the profession
Strategy 1: Support
the development of graduate certificate and degree
programs in faculty and organizational development.
Strategy 2: Develop
and provide post-doc and opportunities to shadow
experienced faculty developers
Objective 4: Develop a process capable of
assessing and documenting the scope and quality of
professional practice.
Strategy 1: Support
development of a faculty developer’s portfolio.
Strategy 2: Develop
systems/rubrics for the assessment of professional
practice.
Strategy 3: Develop a
Faculty Developer’s Professional Development Assessment
Committee
Strategy 4: Work with
other faculty/academic/educational Development
organizations to develop common terminology
and professional practice definitions
Objective 5: Contribute to and support the
dissemination of published literature on faculty
development and teaching and
learning
Strategy 1: Encourage
POD members to publish in journals such as the
International Journal of Academic Development and Journal
of Graduate Student Development through written and
electronic endorsements.
Strategy 2:
Investigate multiple publications of TIA.
Strategy 3:
Investigate electronic publication opportunities (i.e.,
create new free-to-public online quarterly, tri-quarterly,
or biannual publication to increase POD’s exposure and
impact.)
Strategy 4: Develop
additional ways to promote Thriving In Academe.
Strategy 5: Establish
regular POD column in the Chronicle of Higher Education
and other major publications.
Strategy 6:
Investigate providing access to The Teaching Professor to
members through communication with Magna Publications.
Strategy 7: Support
the development of research skillsnecessary to conduct
high quality research on teaching and learning (SoTL)
Strategy 8: Encourage
dissemination of SoTL activities at POD conference and at
other conferences such as ISoTL
Strategy 9: Actively
foster research collaboration activity through highlighted
and featured conference sessions
Objective 6: Determine the needs of POD members
regarding continuous professional development
Strategy 1: Conduct a
Zoomerang survey of POD members.
Strategy 2: Present
this information at the POD annual conference.
Goal 3: Promote increased
attention to organizational development
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Objective 1: Enhance
awareness, knowledge, and skills on organizational
development throughout POD’s activities
Strategy 1: Have a
strand of conference sessions on topics relating to
organizational development at each conference
Strategy 2: Expand
participation of campus Administrators (presidents,
provosts, etc.) at annual conferences through targeted and
invited marketing
Strategy3: Develop an
regular POD Institute focusing on organizational
development including such topics as working with Senior
Administrators, advocating for teaching and learning
centers, serving as a change agent
Strategy 4: Collect,
disseminate and maintain OD research/knowledge through
websites, special interest groups,
newcomer sessions, IINFD on disciplinary-based OD
Strategy 5: Conduct
structured interviews with developers experienced in OD to
publish in newsletter and archive on
website as part of POD oral history project
Objective 2: Support
and disseminate research on OD that supports teaching and
learning
Strategy 1: Engage in
procedures to forecast issues so POD can identify areas
for future research
Strategy 2: Continue
to collect handouts from OD conference sessions to post on
POD’s website
Strategy 3: Budget for
OD research grants
Strategy 4:
Investigate additional OD research dissemination vehicles
(i.e., a dedicated section of TIA)
Goal 4: Enhance Outreach and
Advocacy
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Objective 1: Enhance
existing relationships and develop new relationships with
the regional accrediting associations
in US and Canada
Strategy 1: Offer
workshops and programs about faculty development and POD
at regional accreditation association conferences
Strategy 2: Offer
sessions at POD conference about regional accreditation
associations
Strategy 3: Develop
and maintain recording system and data base of all CORE
member outreach activities
Objective 2: Expand
relationships with other professional higher education
organizations (e.g., AAC&U, Carnegie,
ASHE, ISoTL, etc.)
Strategy 1: Develop
complimentary or reduced rate conference registration fees
Strategy 2: Offer
workshops and programs about faculty development and POD
Objective 3: Expand membership by engaging in
outreach efforts to institutions without membership in POD
Strategy 1: Continue
fiscal support for Ambassadors Program
Strategy 2: Provide
small grant support for emerging international faculty
development networks to attend POD Conference
Objective 4: Enhance
relationships with ICED and other national and
international faculty development networks
Strategy 1: Co-host
the 2008 ICED conference and 2008 POD/NSPOD Conference
Strategy 2: Continue
attendance at ICED Council
Strategy 3: Seek new
ties with organizations such as American Indian Higher
Education Consortium (AIHEC),
HBCU POD, NSPOD
Objective 5: Advocate for teaching, learning,
faculty and organizational development
Strategy 1: Develop
procedures for identifying issues in higher education for
which POD wishes to advocate and
appropriate advocating vehicles and methods
Strategy 2: Write
position papers for publication in local, national and
international media
Strategy 3: Establish
relationships with local, national, and international
governmental and non-governmental agencies
(i.e., UNESCO)
Goal 5: Support Diversity within
POD and Throughout Higher Education
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Objective 1: Enhance
the creation of policies, procedures and structures within
POD that value, support, and reinforce
a diverse organization
Strategy 1: Develop
methods and policies to expand membership to include more
diverse membership and
minority serving institutions
Strategy 2: Develop
leadership and professional mentoring programs for POD
members from under-represented groups
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