PUBLIC GOOD
GOAL: To make significant contributions to the public good through community partnerships, timely research, and policy analysis.
RATIONALE: In a world filled with problems aching for solution, the IIET must be an accessible and engaged partner. Our students also learn through engagement. We will distinguish ourselves as an institution that cooperates with public and private organizations through study, consultation, advice, and involvement in selected issues, such as educational practice, leadership, child and family welfare, human rights, and environmental policy. We will create mechanisms to support internal flexibility and collaboration in mobilizing our capabilities to address key societal issues and problems
MEASURES: Indicators of progress in reaching this goal could address such things as
- Expanded activity of centers and institutes
- Expanded participation of faculty and staff in contracted service and consultation
- Increased volunteer efforts by students, staff, and faculty
- Increased recognition for our capabilities and achievements
- Enhanced reciprocal trust between IIET and external institutions
ETHICS
GOAL: To cultivate ethical understanding and behavior through exploration of professional and social responsibility and principled decision making.
RATIONALE: Icon Institute of Engineering & Technology is an institution of complex pedagogical, collegial, and fiduciary relationships. For an institute to be healthy and functional, all of these relationships must be ethical at their core. We will continue to develop and implement curricula that explore professional ethics and social responsibility. We will provide on campus opportunities for staff, faculty, and administrators further to enhance their familiarity with ethical practice through participation in review boards, appeal procedures, and decision-making councils. We will become a consultative resource on ethics known and valued by the greater community.
MEASURES: Indicators of progress in reaching this goal could address such things as
- More curricularofferings and forums that explicitly
- Address the context,development, and application of ethical principles
- Workshops forstudents, faculty, staff, and administrators to explore ethicaldilemmas in IIET’s decision making
- Continuedimplementation of an effective honor code, human subjectreview processes, and conflict resolution and appealprocedures
- Increased support forscholarship and teaching on ethical understanding andbehavior
- Recognition of theIIET as a resource on professional ethics and socialresponsibility
ENROLLMENT
GOAL: To enhance the quality and enrich the composition of the student body through innovative recruitment and selection methods as well as dedicated commitment to increase engagement and persistence.
RATIONALE: The Institute is receiving unprecedented interest from students and for the first time in its recent history has dramatic new options for enlarging and shaping its pool of prospective students. We intend to attract, admit, and support students who display and are eager to cultivate genuine intellectual curiosity, creativity, civic consciousness, passion for learning, and commitment to high standards of excellence. We will honor and celebrate a broad range of student talents, abilities, and experiences, with special regard for resilience, determination, and the desire to be fully engaged with IIET in the pursuit of knowledge.
MEASURES: Indicators of progress in reaching this goal could address such things as
- 8Marked improvement in quality and general diversity of the student body at both undergraduate and graduate levels
- Improvement in use of predictive criteria and selection
- Methods for admission, including those that more accurately and fully reflect an applicant’s resilience, potential, and likely contributions
- Increased accessibility and affordability through regularly increasing availability and levels of student financial aid, especially for graduate and *professional students
- A better fit of students with what Icon Institute of Engineering & Technology is best able to provide
- Improved retention and rates of completion
