Strategy   Outcome
1-1.  Appoint a Community Engagement Task Force (CETF) with University-wide representation to propose an outreach agenda for the University, examine methods to document outreach activities and develop guidelines for conducting and evaluating them.

Campus   All
Target Date   March 2006
Accountable Individual President
  
  
  Task Force will be appointed and charged.
1-2.  Compile and publish a list of successful outreach practices by exploring exemplary activities at FAU and at other institutions.

Campus   All
Target Date   December 2006
Accountable Individual Chair CETF
  
  
  The list of successful practices from FAU and comparable institutions (urban, multi-campus, diverse, doctoral, public) will be published and widely disseminated.
1-3.  Identify procedures and processes for defining, prioritizing, planning and evaluating outreach activities based on the community's unique characteristics, including:

   Regional Cooperation and Sustainability
   Biomedical and Health
   Lifelong Learning
   Economic Development
   Arts and Culture
   Globalization

Campus   All
Target Date   Spring 2006
Accountable Individual Chair CETF, University leaders
  
  
  Focus groups held for targeted faculty and staff will give input to the proposed procedures and processes.

Guidebook for prioritizing, planning and evaluating outreach activities will be published and disseminated to all academic and administrative units.
1-4.  Propose a series of incentives that reward outstanding community outreach activities.

Campus   All
Target Date   Spring 2007
Accountable Individual Chair CETF
  
  
  Incentive package will be developed in proposal form and forwarded to the President.
1-5.  Foster coordination of community outreach efforts by University centers and institutes through development of a Council of Outreach Centers.

Campus   All
Target Date   March 2006 - February 2007
Accountable Individual Chair CETF
  
  
  Deans and VPs will identify centers and institutes with outreach responsibility.

A commission for the Council will be developed and approved.

At least two meetings of the Council will be convened.

A first work plan will be completed for the Council.
 
 
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