Temple Connects

Strategic Initiatives

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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.
Supporting Tactics
  1. Integrate Business Intelligence Unit processes, including defining role(s), across Temple.
  2. Reduce firewalls for system and platform integration.
  3. Introduce online collaboration tools, enabling faculty and staff to connect, share insights, and work together on projects.
  4. 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.
  5. Develop a framework for creating and engaging affinity groups spanning students, faculty, and staff, including a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
  6. 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