Mission, Vision and Values

Mission, Vision and Values


Mission

The office of Planning, Assessment, Research and Quality is responsible for strategic planning and accountability, institutional research and assessment, the Applied Research Center, quality initiatives and university policies.

Strategic Planning and Accountability

Ensuring a participatory, collaborative, innovative process for visioning, goal identification, and action plan development.  Facilitating achievement of vision, goals and action plans.  Demonstrating accountability.

  • 5 yr strategic plan – visioning session, goal statements, new performance indicators, target setting
  • 2 yr planning tasks – Capital issues lists, DIN requests
  • Action Plans/University priorities – high quality action plans, action plan updates, progress reports
  • Annual Planning process – SPG retreat, listening sessions, budget forums, performance indicator updates
  • Integration with UW System planning processes
  • Enterprise risk management
  • Accountability – Voluntary System of Accountability, Accountability Report, External Surveys

Institutional Research and Assessment

Providing faculty, staff and students with the skills to conduct high quality research. Providing the University with systems to manage data and identify what's important.  Facilitating the use of data for decision-making.

  • Training/Capacity building resources/Consultation
  • Survey clearinghouse
  • Information Portal
  • University-wide surveys
  • Salary equity/workload reports
  • Salary simulations
  • Graduate student assistance
  • Qualtrics support
  • Data summaries
  • Modeling
  • CDR liaison
  • Negative data trends
  • Special projects
  • Assistance with discipline-specific accreditation

Applied Research Center (fee based)

Becoming a national leader in benchmarking and data sharing.  Conducting high quality research and evaluations for UW-Stout faculty and staff. 

  • Benchmarking surveys
  • Evaluation services
  • PolyDASHER (data sharing)
  • UW-Stout surveys and focus groups (i.e. people who want to go beyond consultation)
  • Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Quality

Facilitating continuous quality improvement at all levels of the university.  Providing faculty, staff and students with the skills to use quality processes to maintain and improve process performance and efficiency.

  • AQIP
  • Baldrige
  • Quality Training Certificate program
  • ESURC
  • Resource to PRC
  • Process improvement (Lean)

University Policies

Ensuring that all university policies are up-to-date and in compliance with System and State requirements. 

  • New policy updates
  • Revisions to existing policies