2025-2030 VCOM Strategic Plan

1.4.5. Enhance employee benefits: 1.4.5.a. Allow up to 5 unused vacation days to roll over after the end of the fiscal year (June 30), with the option to use them by July 31 of the same calendar year. 1.4.5.b. Create an employee sick leave sharing bank that allows employees to donate up to 8 hours of vacation or sick leave each fiscal year for use by employees experiencing significant medical issues. 1.4.6. Create an online employee application system for ease of submission and review. 1.4.7. Enhance the faculty and staff development offerings and develop a reward system for those who participate in continuous improvement. 1.4.8. Create a staff development grant program that allows staff who are not allotted continuing education funds to apply for funding to pursue upskilling or reskilling opportunities that will enhance their knowledge and performance. 1.4.9. Expand CME sponsorship to our core hospital partners for both allopathic and osteopathic physicians. 1.4.10. Expand CME offerings for our clinical faculty. 1.4.11. Offer CME for clinical faculty related to global health. 1.4.11.a Establish a formal certificate program in global health for VCOM preceptors who participate in the international program. 1.4.12. Further develop the employee onboarding program. 1.4.13. Continue recruiting professionally qualified faculty, staff, administration who have attained records of achievement or can demonstrate such likelihood of achievement in their fields of specialty. Strategic Objective 1.5: Provide students, faculty, and staff with excellent physical facilities and equipment, grounds, and resources to enhance clinical, instructional, and research functions at all campuses. Action Steps: 1.5.1. Maintain a no-deferred maintenance policy on each campus. 1.5.2. Develop a plan to enhance the Virginia and Carolinas older campuses and ensure they remain as state-of-the-art facilities. 1.5.3. Ensure continued accessibility on all campuses for those with disabilities and for those with special needs related to health, childbirth, and diversity. Strategic Objective 1.6: Provide students, faculty, and staff with safe and state-of-the-art information technology equipment and services. Action Steps: 1.6.1. Develop an enhanced educational management program for OMS 3 and OMS 4-year students. 1.6.2. Implement new technologies to support student learning including Toltec Labs, VLMS, and AI learning resources. 1.6.3. Expand cyber-security programs for all learning environments. Strategic Objective 1.7: Expand awareness of the College and its Mission and innovative educational programs to a wide audience across the southeast US and nationally. Action Steps: 1.7.1. Develop and execute a plan to annually increase external communications using a variety of channels and annual reviews of data-backed analysis for communications, marketing, and online projects, including website, publications, marketing and advertising, social media platforms, video, public relations, and media relations.

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