Departmental Strategic Planning
Our Mission
The Texas Tech University Advising Center exists to engage, equip, empower, and encourage students (and their families) to explore and excel in their educational goals and beyond."
You may be thinking, "That's a lot of e-words." Or maybe you're thinking, "Yeah, right ... prove it!" We couldn't agree more. Let us explain:
- Our mission uses several e-words by design. The statement was carefully crafted to help our own team memorize, understand, and deliver! We've outlined it in an advising syllabus for our students, but it is far more than that. So go ahead, ask one of us about it. What does it mean? How are we working to accomplish it? We look forward to the conversation.
- On 'proving it' ... we intend to. Our department is investing precious time, energy, and resources to center all of its efforts on exceeding the highest standards of academic excellence in academic advising. Everything we do is based on a specific learning objective and has deliberate assessments so we can know where we are successful, and where we need to focus more energy. You can learn more about this element of our work here by reviewing our strategic plan and assessment reports.
2006-2012 Strategic Plan
Under the supervision of the Texas Tech University Office of Planning & Assessment, all institutional units are required to prepare a strategic plan to set long term priorities, guide and direct programs, allocate investment of resources, and to define measures of assessment for accountability and quality improvement.
With each revision of the Texas Tech Strategic Plan, the Advising Center at Texas Tech has worked diligently to reorganize, reprioritize, and update the departmental plan to ensure from a front-line position the univerity's successful accomplishment of its mission. This includes alignment of strategic priorities, objectives, goals, tasks, and annual benchmarks, all of which are articulated in the larger institutional plan. In 2006, an extensive departmental strategic planning process produced a revised six-year year plan with annual benchmarks, quantitative metrics, and qualitative measures. For purposes of public accountability, this deparmental plan is provided here:
- Click here for the University Advising Center Strategic Plan in PDF format.
- Click here for the University Advising Center Strategic Plan in a visual organizer (MindJet) format for more intuitive exploration.
Annual Assessments of the Departmental Strategic Plan
Annually the department reviews its progress and presents a self-assessment of its progress toward accomplishing the stated departmental strategic plan. For purposes of public accountability, the department's annual assessments of progress are provided here:
- FY08 (September 2007-August 2008)
- FY09 (September 2008-August 2009)
- FY10 (September 2009-August 2010)
- FY11 (September 2010-August 2011)
- FY12 (September 2011-August 2012)
Real-Time Report on Quantitative Measures
While strategic planning and annual assessment provide high-level guidance and direction for the department, the Advising Center leadership has found it valuable establish an ongoing awareness and continual quality improvement of its practices more frequently than once per year. As a result of the paperless advising documentation system, AXIS, the department has made great strides in leveraging technology to provide real-time reporting and data analysis of its work.
The charts below are a small sampling of the instantaneous reporting tools used by departmental leadership and advisors to be perpetually vigilant and proactively engaged in supporting and challenging students to meet and exceed their own measures of success in the educational environment and beyond. By default, this page loads to report each chart using a date range which includes statistics for the current fiscal year, which runs from September 1 through the following August 31. Click here to modify the range of dates included in the dynamic reports below.
Current Metrics
Summative Metrics for the Period of September 1, 2009, 12:00 am to November 22, 2009, 11:59 pm
Click here to change the date range included in the real-time dynamic reports displayed below.