SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Learning Management System | |
| UCS will provide students and faculty with a learning management system to meet their pedagogical needs for web-enhanced or online courses. Associated Goals: Academic Standards And Programs |
| Indicator | LMS Participation Increase Learning Management Participation to 75% |
| Criteria | LMS participation survey Review participation to see if goal was achieved |
| Finding | LMS participation achieved 66 % of classes used the LMS |
| Action | LMS participation actions Continue to work with academic affairs to provide LMS resources that will increase participation |
| Objective | NLR Participation | |
| UCS will provide connectivity to the National Lambda Rail(NLR)research computing network Associated Goals: Academic Standards And Programs |
| Indicator | NLR Connectivity Connectivity to NLR will be accomplished |
| Criteria | NLR connected verify SHSU is able to send and receive data with the NLR network |
| Finding | NLR connectivity achieved SHSU has established connectivity with the NLR network |
| Action | NLR goal achieved |
| Objective | Pleasant Lab Environment | |
| Provide a comfortable, convenient, professional atmosphere for student lab work. Associated Goals: Academic Standards And Programs |
| Indicator | Lab Environment Satisfaction Target satisfaction level with lab atmosphere of 90% |
| Criteria | Lab environment survey student satisfaction with the lab |
| Finding | Lab satisfaction Survey data reported 88% satisfaction |
| Action | Continue to survey Increase survey pool |
| Objective | Training | |
| Provide students and faculty with resources and education on new technologies. Associated Goals: Academic Standards And Programs |
| Indicator | Training Participation Increase participation in UCS offered training by 5% |
| Criteria | Track Training Participation Track the number of hours of training offered |
| Finding | No increase in training Training of 919 hours is the same as FY06 |
| Action | Encourage training Focus on finding resources to support the time and effort to add additional training time |
| Objective | Convenient Resources | |
| provide technology resources at campus locations convenient to students and faculty. Associated Goals: Campus Community And Atmosphere |
| Indicator | WAP's Provided Increase the number of wireless access points on campus to 140 |
| Criteria | Increase WAP count Count the number of wireless access points on campus and show a net increase over the previous year. |
| Finding | WAP count increased 31 WAP''s installed |
| Action | Continue expansion Continue to increase the number of campus WAP''s |
| Objective | Events Publicity | |
| Provide increased publicity of University events and calendar Associated Goals: Campus Community And Atmosphere |
| Indicator | Event Highlight UCS will track the number of event and calendar highlights provided on the University web site www.shsu.edu |
| Criteria | Track event highlights Track the number of events highlighted on the SHSU main website |
| Finding | Event highlight count NA Cumulative data was not available. |
| Action | Track highlight Continue to track event highlights and ensure the records are retained. |
| Objective | Conference Participation | |
| Encourage UCS staff to network and collaborate with other technological staff at conferences and other universities. Associated Goals: University Image And Exposure |
| Indicator | Conference Attendance Increase attendance to 12 conferences yearly |
| Criteria | Number of Conferences attended Sum the number of conferences atteneded by UCS staff |
| Finding | Number of conferences attended UCS staff attened 18 conferences |
| Action | Conference attendance goal achieved, will continue this for next year. |
| Objective | Conference Presentations | |
| UCS will set a target for presentations made by UCS staff at state, regional, or national conferences. Associated Goals: University Image And Exposure |
| Indicator | Conference Presentations UCS will target presenting at 3 conferences during the year. |
| Criteria | Number of conference presentations sum the number of presentations given by UCS staff |
| Finding | Number of conference presentations sum the number of conferences UCS staff present at. |
| Action | Conference presentations will work with Directors to identify key areas of oportunity to achieve this goal next year |
| Objective | Web Site Search Ranking Improvements | |
| Assist University departments with web page design to help increase the Internet search ranking of SHSU Associated Goals: University Image And Exposure |
| Indicator | Web Site Visits Increase number of visits to web site to 20,000,000 for the year |
| Criteria | Web site visits compare visits counter with previous year and identify the increase. |
| Finding | Web sit visits increased Calculations determined the number of visits was increased |
| Action | Determine a new objective This objective does not accurately reflect operations of computer services |