Temple Connects - Lewis Katz School of Medicine
مسار التنقل
Temple Connects
Strategic Initiatives
قائمة التنقل
Temple Connects
Increase community engagement and foster a sense of belonging, utilizing technology-supported approaches to improve satisfaction, connection, resilience, and responsiveness.
Key Objectives:
- Increase the sense of belonging among faculty, staff, and students by creating inclusive environments and support systems.
- Improve organizational resilience and responsiveness through technology to streamline processes and enhance decision-making capabilities.
- Promote bidirectional collaboration within and across our communities to codesign how Katz supports and is supported.
- Integrate Business Intelligence Unit processes, including defining role(s), across Temple.
- Reduce firewalls for system and platform integration.
- Introduce online collaboration tools, enabling faculty and staff to connect, share insights, and work together on projects.
- Establish an Office for Community Engagement, focusing on the interest and needs of, and fostering sustainable projects to deepen our connection and strengthen our partnership with, the community.
- Develop a framework for creating and engaging affinity groups spanning students, faculty, and staff, including a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
- Launch recurring annual events to boost connection and engagement (e.g., volunteer days, symposia).
Working Group Members
Group Champions
| Nicolle Strand, JD | Director and Associate Professor, Center for Urban Bioethics |
| Paula Davis West | Assistant Dean, Finance and Administration |
Members
| Akiyah Baugh | Assistant Director, Information Technology |
| Amanda Bednar | Director, Marketing and Communications |
| Christina Bergey | Senior Administrator, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry and Center for Asian Health |
| Robert Blair | Director, Business Intelligence |
| Susan Coull | Assistant Dean, Graduate Medical Education |
| Lisa Duncan | Director, Financial Aid, Student Support and Student Records |
| Fulton Hutchinson | Senior Director of Financial Systems, Temple University |
| Shannon Lynch, PhD | Co-Director, Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology |
| Stefanie Murphy | Associate Vice President, Corporate Marketing |
| Hannah Ravreby, MD | Assistant Dean, Academic Coaching |
| Allyson Saccomandi | Director, Leadership and Organizational Development, Temple University Health System |
| Sam Stern, MD | Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine |
