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To create a learning environment that will assure student achievement and employability, we will:

Our Vision

To inform and lead our students and regional stakeholders into a new era of global commerce

Our Mission

1) To attract students from the New York region and from around the world who require state-of-the-art instruction in the methods necessary to thrive in global commerce.

2) To provide the resources necessary to attract and retain entrepreneurs to our region who seek to engage in global commerce, especially commerce across the U.S.-Canada border.

3) To create an environment for faculty and staff to tailor their skills and expand their intellectual horizons in pursuit of our mission to prepare all our stakeholders for a globally competitive world.

4) To be considered the leading institution of higher learning that understands and addresses the needs of businesses locating in Northern New York but doing business across borders and around the world.

5) To attract those students and businesses that are concerned with global competitiveness, and to seek to prepare students for the 21st Century and for a rapidly evolving workforce and competitive landscape.

To have independent creditable feedback from the various medias that supports the belief that the SBE: SUNY: Plattsburgh is one of the preeminent institutions of undergraduate business education in the USA.

To be rated in the top ten in a majority of years in a rolling five-year-window by at least one of the independent rating authorities.

1.) Improving the student profile on a two year baseline comparison. Where the profile is delineated in terms of (i) cultural diversity, (ii) measures of academic excellence as transfers or from high school, and (iii) extra-curricular engagements.

2.) Improving the nature of educational innovation on a two year comparison. Where innovation encompasses: (i) experimental courses not in the traditional classroom setting, (ii )commitment to engage the students in their e-world, (iii) alternative methods to the traditional exam based measures of evaluation of student performance, and (iv) developing interdisciplinary cross-fertilization mini-courses taught on a team basis.

3.) Tracking at the departmental level all students graduating the SBE regarding the nature of their professional engagements and linking students not realizing excellent professional engagements with SBE alum-Mentors.

Our diverse faculty, experienced in both theory and practice, prepare a diverse student body for success in local and global enterprises using both theory and practice and drawing upon our interrelationships with the local and global business community.

When academics, practitioners, or students think of quality and successful education for both local and global business practice, they will think first of SUNY-Plattsburgh.

Sustain a curriculum that emphasizes both local and global business practice.

Sustain relationships and mutual collaboration with local and global partners.

The School of Business and Economics core focus is on teaching excellence supported by applied scholarship to provide our students with a high quality business education. We provide students with the requisite fundamental business and economics skills for successful careers in the global economy. We do this through the use of innovative teaching methods and instructional technology, complemented by experiential learning, internships and exceptional mentoring. The School of Business and Economics actively participates in the economic development effort of the northeastern region of New York State through the Small Business Development Center and faculty involvement in the community.

The School of Business and Economics aspires to become a leading provider of undergraduate and graduate innovative and global business education with a recognized expertise in US trade with Eastern Canada and Quebec.

SBE mission: To provide our students with professional skills, ethical competencies, relevant knowledge, and hands-on experiences, for the business disciplines that we support.

SBE vision: To be recognized for building and delivering effective high quality yet economical business degree courses for our domestic and international students, using direct and online teaching modalities and techniques in order to satisfy all learning styles. To attract and retain knowledgable experienced full and part time faculty who can effectively teach, publish peer reviewed scholarly research and volunteer for university or community of practice service. To remain accredited with well-recognized institutions which provides credibility to our students, to our funding agencies and to our institution. To obtain and ethically manage research funding in a way that benefits all our educational stakeholders and industry partners while making significant contributions to the literature with our outcomes. To practice what we teach by continually evolving ourselves as necessary in order to adapt to changing global market conditions.

Note: I do not feel there is necessarily anything wrong with our existing mission, but as demonstrated above, maybe it could be improved slightly.

To provide the highest quality business education to the citizens of New York State at an affordable cost

The vision of the School of Business and Economics is to be recognized for its excellence in teaching in its undergraduate business and accounting programs among the public and private four-year comprehensive colleges and universities within New York State and the Region.

The mission of the School of Business and Economics is to enable its undergraduate students to exercise their intellectual capacity; to acquire the knowledge and analytical skills in their disciplines and related fields; to value diversity in people and in business environment; to develop ethical decision abilities; to value global component of management education; and to serve as an intellectual resource center for the local, regional, and global community.

To achieve the mission and realize the vision of the School of Business and Economics, the following Strategic Goals must be achieved/aspire to achieve:

1. Maintain a challenging academic curriculum in all major fields of studies within the School of business and Economics. A curriculum that is cohesive, continually revised, updated, improved, and supported with state-of-art-technology.

2. Recognize and promote excellence in teaching, and value feedback on teaching from colleagues, students, and other stakeholders.

3. Maintain, motivate, and support research activities for faculty to enable them to advance and increase their intellectual contribution in applied and pedagogy type research that leads to refereed publications in reputable academic and professional journals.

4. Promote and value the culture of experiential learning opportunities in variety of different forms.

5. Promote liberal arts education within the curriculum that cements students’ broad understanding and appreciation of the arts and science.

6. Recruit and retain highly qualified faculty new faculty by providing the support, collegial environment, and appropriate mentorship that help them to excel in their teaching and research responsibilities.

7. Encourage and value service component of faculty responsibilities with concentration on service that contribute to the school and its reputation, the college, and the community.


Mission, Vision, Goals
	Average
Proposal # 1	7.0
Proposal # 2	6.0
Proposal # 3	2.0
Proposal # 4	4.0
Proposal # 5	8.0
Proposal # 6	5.5
Proposal # 7	2.5
Proposal # 8	5.5
Proposal # 9	8.5


COMMENTS

We shouldn't mention specific programs like 'accounting', or even 'business' in either the vision or the mission. I wouldn't even refer to ourselves as a "school of business", b/c it is a school of "bus and eco". I'd hesitate to include references to "innovative" teaching methods, unless someone can define it first; everything we state must be measurable. Also, drop references to diversity-- this isn't 1965, unless you are referring to intellectual diversity, which is more important than sociological diversity. Also, don't state 'online' learning as part of the mission b/c very few of the faculty and students seem to be interested in it. Also, to state that we want to have a 'high reputation' is something that may be difficult to measure. The next thing we will have to come up with is an instrument to assess reputation. Finally, AACSB doesn't like us to be doing anything to overtly achieve accredition. The game is more like we should be doing things on our own that happen to qualify us for their stamp of approval, a rather strange distinction. Also, another thing that AACSB likes to see is "shared governance", but maybe that could be stated in the strategic goals instead of the vision and mission.

proposal 9 is unacceptable

Many of the proposals have at least one or two (if not more) points that should be used in the final list of goals/actions plans.

1. In each of the eight entries, there are some great ideas and thoughts that represent what a Vision/Mission should be for our SBE. 2. It is of great concern to include some buzz words and/or some ideas, yet fascinating, however neither can be achieved, nor be accurately measured in a typical lifetime of a vision/mission of about 5-6 years. 3. We should look with a keen eye on who we are, what we are currently capable of, and what we are capable of achieving in the next 5 years in order to establish a roadmap to realize our Vision/Mission. Aspiration is great, however, it has to be in the context of the current realities of faculty, students, and institutional capacities; and expected future outlook including resources and other tangible and intangible tools to reach/achieve such aspiration. Otherwise a Vision/Mission is or will be nothing but empty promises.

Proposal nine must have been submitted by someone from the accounting program?