RISE: Realizing Intentional Standards of Excellence
KU’s mission is to educate leaders, build healthy communities, and make discoveries that change the world. When we Realize Intentional Standards of Excellence, we contribute to the fulfilment of KU’s mission and vision by ensuring that access, success, respect, and belonging are integral to every part of KU’s research, scholarship, teaching, service, community engagement, and support.
Furthermore, a purposeful and organized plan to improve access, success, respect, and belonging across the institution is essential to securing HLC accreditation and keeping AAU membership. KU will not be competitive with peer and aspirant institutions until all Jayhawks understand and embody the reality that access, success, respect, and belonging are not additive but rather essential to all parts of the institution. Thus, RISE offers an action-oriented framework which helps advance belonging.
Priorities
Recruitment & Retention
1: Unit successfully recruits and ensures retention, academic outcomes, and degree completion for undergraduate students.
2: Unit successfully recruits and ensures retention, academic outcomes, and degree completion for graduate and professional students.
3: Unit successfully recruits and retains staff and faculty.
Education, Research, and Scholarship
1: Unit offers curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities that utilize multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy for undergraduate students.
2: Unit offers curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities that utilize multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy for graduate and professional students.
3: Unit contributes to and supports employee participation in learning opportunities that foster competence in access, success, respect, belonging, multiple lenses, and intentional pedagogy.
4: Unit’s research and scholarship are grounded in multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy.
Campus Climate & Infrastructure
1: Unit has completed thorough audit of gaps, pain points, and opportunities for improvement in the areas of access, success, respect, and belonging.
2: Unit has an evidence-based action plan to address policies, practices, and procedures which may be barriers to advancing access, success, respect, and belonging.
3: Unit implements components of action plan in order to improve access, success, respect, and belonging.
4: Unit has articulated how intersectional standards of excellence apply to their work and have set up accountability protocols.
5: Unit has committed financial resources, personnel, and incentives which enable unit to realize intentional standards of excellence.
6: Create and sustain efforts to obtain grants, opportunities, and gifts which advance intentional standards of excellence.
Community Engagement and Impact
1: When connecting with populations throughout Kansas, the region, and country, the unit ensures the work is mutually beneficially and culturally sustaining.
2: Unit, as applicable, supplies leadership in access, success, respect, and belonging throughout Kansas, in the region, and across the country.
3: When applicable, the unit uses its position to help improve the University’s positive economic impact on communities throughout Kansas, in the region, and across the country.
Recruitment & Retention
1: Unit successfully recruits and ensures retention, academic outcomes, and degree completion for undergraduate students.
2: Unit successfully recruits and ensures retention, academic outcomes, and degree completion for graduate and professional students.
3: Unit successfully recruits and retains staff and faculty.
Education, Research, and Scholarship
1: Unit offers curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities that utilize multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy for undergraduate students.
2: Unit offers curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities that utilize multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy for graduate and professional students.
3: Unit contributes to and supports employee participation in learning opportunities that foster competence in access, success, respect, belonging, multiple lenses, and intentional pedagogy.
4: Unit’s research and scholarship are grounded in multiple lenses and intentional pedagogy.
Campus Climate & Infrastructure
1: Unit has completed thorough audit of gaps, pain points, and opportunities for improvement in the areas of access, success, respect, and belonging.
2: Unit has an evidence-based action plan to address policies, practices, and procedures which may be barriers to advancing access, success, respect, and belonging.
3: Unit implements components of action plan in order to improve access, success, respect, and belonging.
4: Unit has articulated how intersectional standards of excellence apply to their work and have set up accountability protocols.
5: Unit has committed financial resources, personnel, and incentives which enable unit to realize intentional standards of excellence.
6: Create and sustain efforts to obtain grants, opportunities, and gifts which advance intentional standards of excellence.
Community Engagement and Impact
1: When connecting with populations throughout Kansas, the region, and country, the unit ensures the work is mutually beneficially and culturally sustaining.
2: Unit, as applicable, supplies leadership in access, success, respect, and belonging throughout Kansas, in the region, and across the country.
3: When applicable, the unit uses its position to help improve the University’s positive economic impact on communities throughout Kansas, in the region, and across the country.