Engage - Objective 1

Objective: Unify and coordinate SPHHS’s engagement efforts so it can focus its considerable knowledge and resources toward building impactful, sustained, and mutually beneficial partnerships with external stakeholders.

Key Performance Indicators:

• TBD using Faculty Activity Project Data related to community engagement activities
• Number of news articles focused on community engagement activities

Strategy 1: Develop systems to document, align, and communicate faculty, staff and student engagement activates in research, teaching, service and outreach.

Action Steps:

• Convene a cross-SPHHS committee to coordinate data collection: research, teaching, service, and outreach
• Develop a centralized, internal database to track faculty, staff, and student engagement activities, leveraging existing tools (e.g., Faculty Success project for faculty ) and gaps in additional sources
• Establish a regular (e.g. annual or bi-annual) review mechanism for updating and validating engagement data

Strategy 2: Identify and implement metrics to track key community engagement activities.

Action Steps:

• Collaborate with faculty and staff to define streamlined engagement metrics (e.g., partnerships, student involvement, outcomes)
• Track community engagement activities that demonstrate impact, reciprocity, and sustainability overtime and review data annually

Strategy 3: Increase visibility of SPHHS community engagement activities and impact.

Action Steps:

• Collaborate with the IT team and communications office to create a data visualization and storytelling platforms
• Create a storytelling series with diverse voices from SPHHS and partners, and launch a public platform to showcase community engagement efforts