The Road Map spent $1 million toward proposals in each of the six Strategic Priorities during the 2021 reaiming process. Details on those proposals are included here.
- SP1 - Creating a program focused on developing and improving the professional profiles of faculty members across disciplines in order to enhance the academic reputation of Binghamton University as a Carnegie R1 institution. The proposal involved hiring one staff member in the Division of Research and one in the Division of Communications and Marketing to develop digital profiles and videos. It aimed to increase awareness about the University's R1 status, increase the visibility of University faculty members around the world and prepare faculty for awards, fellowships and external support.
- SP2 - This priority forwarded two proposals: one for an immediate intervention and extended student success initiative and another for building a transformative learning community through high-engagement experiences. The immediate intervention proposal was focused on supporting students who may have needed additional academic support following a high school career that was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It involved a summer institute for calculus and chemistry; formative academic assessments in courses enrolling new students; hiring a program coordinator for success coaching; hiring a student success manager in Enrollment Management; recovery courses for students and expanding services provided by supplemental instruction. The high-engagement experiences proposal involved improving the measurement of student engagement; faculty-supervised research on extracurricular and co-curricular engagement and enhancing the capacity to increase engagement among students who were not actively seeking out opportunities.
- SP3 - A virtual tour of the Binghamton University experience, "Work, Live and Thrive," was created to assist in the recruitment and retention of diverse students, faculty and staff. The project helped prospective employees better understand the greater Binghamton community through testimonials and examples from current employees.
- SP4 - With the creation of a new Strategic Priority, SP6 - Internationalization, in this cycle of reaiming the Road Map, SP4 was able to redefine its goals around community engagement. This proposal included stipends for community engaged course development, research and teaching enrichment grants, the hiring of a tracking and assessment associate and purchasing Collaboratory software to promote visibility for collaborative research.
- SP5 - The priority focused on two goals in this cycle. The first was an investment in planned giving development, as research has shown that each dollar invested in fundraising bequest gifts results in a return of $57. The second goal was to hire a graduate student to help develop a statistical model to identify characteristics most predictive of donating among the University's nearly 200,000 alumni and related constituents.
- SP6 - This new strategic priority on Internationalization chose to focus on enhancing graduate recruitment in its first round of Road Map proposals. SP6 hired two graduate students to better process data analytics, graduate applications and to create a lookup tool to be used during recruitment interactions.
