Strategic Direction One
Strategic Direction #1: The College of Law should continue and expand its efforts to enhance its national and international reputation.
A. The College should continue to recruit, enroll, and retain a higher caliber and more diverse student body.
B. The College should continue to ensure that the Office of Career Development has the financial and human resources to engage in student development that focuses upon student skills relative to career searches, widens student awareness of career opportunities beyond the Tampa Bay area, and enhances the student's own career planning efforts.
C. The College should continue to consider its website to be a strategic resource and should make the best possible use of the web in admissions, development, alumni relations, career development, student services, continuing legal education and communications.
D. The College should evaluate its curriculum to ensure that course offerings and graduation requirements reflect the Mission, Vision, and Values of a Stetson education.
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MILESTONE: October 2009 Curriculum Retreat by Law Faculty |
E. The College should continue to use and build upon its strengths in established academic areas to enhance its national reputation.
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MILESTONE: New books on advocacy, higher education law and elder law by Professors Rose, Lake and Morgan |
F. The College should continue to increase the quality and quantity of faculty scholarship, and should increase the exposure of that scholarship.
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MILESTONE: Faculty Books Available at Bookstore |
G. The College should continue to support faculty (and administrative) engagement in the regional, national, and international academic and bar communities and relevant professional associations.
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MILESTONE: Recent Faculty Presentations |
H. The College should continue to increase its commitment to the profession and the community, both locally and beyond, to increase its national reputation as well as to fulfill its responsibility to make a difference in the world.
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MILESTONE: Recent Community Activities: Professors Beane, Boudreaux, Kaye and Nagle |
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MILESTONE: University Recognized by National Wildlife Federation |
I. The College should ensure that the Library remains a vital part of the College and has resources to continue to expand and improve in a manner that enhances student learning and faculty scholarship.
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MILESTONE: October NCSTL Conference for Judges Hosted at Stetson |
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MILESTONE: Embedded Librarian Program |
J. The College should continue to focus on its role within the University as a whole and should continue to strengthen its relationship with other schools and colleges within the University.
K. The College should ensure that its alumni community becomes and remains an integral part of life at the College of Law.
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MILESTONE: Alumni Advocacy Coaches; Active Stetson Lawyers Association Advisory Council |
L. The College should review all existing academic programs to ensure that they remain consistent with achieving its strategic goals. When undertaking new programs or other initiatives, the College should consider whether such a new program or initiative is consistent with achieving its strategic goals.
M. The College should review and update its list of Peer, Competitor, and Aspirational Schools from the 2004-2005 Strategic Plan to assist the College in future Strategic Planning.
To read more details, please see the complete 2009 Strategic Plan (PDF).
