To further the DI’s mission, goals have been established that reflect the ends toward which the program’s resources and faculty efforts will be directed.  The program will:

• Graduate entry-level practitioners with a generalist background and enhanced skills in community dietetics, who:
  
• are competent
• demonstrate professionalism and ethical behavior
• Increase dietetic manpower in the public health/community nutrition settings

• Alumni achieve over a 5-year period a first-time pass rate of at least 80% on the RD exam.
• 75% of students will be rated as above average to outstanding on at least 50% of their competency evaluations.
• Within 12 months of completing the program, at least 85% of the graduates will be employed in dietetics-related jobs or enrolled in advanced education.
• 90% of the students admitted to the DI will complete the program within 11 months of starting the program.
• 95% of employed graduates will agree that program graduates are competent professionals and ready to assume entry-level positions as dietitians
• During their first year of employment, graduates will be ranked by at least 75% of employers as above average in professional knowledge and skills as compared to other entry-level dietitians.
• 75% of students will be rated above average to outstanding for the community specific competencies established by the DI program.
• 95% of DI students will rate the overall quality of the community rotation as 3 or 4 (slightly – strongly agree)
• Within 12 months of graduation 50% of the graduates will be employed in a public health/community nutrition setting.