Developing a Strategic Plan for a Program in Communication
Sciences and Disorders
Strategic Plan: Indicators Of Success
Indicators of Success: For each Outcome statement, one or more Indictors of Success
will be identified as a way of determining if the Outcome was
achieved and if achieving the Outcome had an impact and provided
a return on investment or was cost-beneficial. The Indictors of
Success are agreed upon by program staff.
Writing the Strategic Plan: Indicators of Success
Example Focus Area: Research
Example Issue: An enhanced culture for conducting and
publishing applied and efficacy research is necessary to foster a
research community and to increase the current level of faculty
research and publications, and is essential to provide
evidence-based clinical practice.
Baseline Data for Example Issue: For 20XX-20XX only X% of the
faculty conducted research activities related to communication
sciences and disorders. There were only X number of presentations
related to research conducted by faculty and only X number of
articles published related to faculty research in communication
sciences and disorders.
Example Outcome: Increase number of faculty who conduct
Example Indicator of Success: X% increase in presentations and
publications of faculty/student research.
Indicator of Success
[Identify one or more Indicators of Success for the identified