STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE

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STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE Priority
Focus Areas for 2004-2005

• Consistent with the universitys strategic plan,
  we selected three priority focus areas for
  2004-2005
• Enhancing Student Success,
• Increasing Research and Outreach, and
• Enhancing Community and Diversity
• The University redirected resources to invest in
  these areas. A number of initiatives and
  activities were undertaken for each focus area.
  College and academic support unit annual reports
  list in detail those initiatives and resulting
  outcomes. The following pages provide a framework
  for activities and track the progress of the
  Provosts Council in the three priority areas
  during the 2004-05 academic year.

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Faculty TA Mentoring
Situational Analyses Assessment

• STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
• 2004-2005
• ENHANCING STUDENT SUCCESS
• September 2004 Black
• February 2005 Red
• April 2005 Blue
• Guide
• Do our plans/strategies help us achieve
  University goals?
• Are there gaps in our strategies? Are there
  opportunities overlooked?

Curriculum Enhancement/ Innovation

• Teaching and managing classroom learning
  environment
• Faculty development
• Search in progress for CTL director

• Student satisfaction
• Advising audit
• Student surveys
• Student Experience Council

• Clearly defined curriculum outcomes
• Bac-core curriculum
• Progress on learning outcomes
• New bac-core courses
• Entrepreneurship minor
• New integrated learning platforms

• University-level Initiatives
• Establish Academic Success Center
• Establish Center for Teaching and Learning
• Implement and evaluate new admissions strategy
• Increase Honors College enrollment
• Develop educational assessment framework and
  strategies

Student Placement
New Programs and Degrees

• Increased opportunities,
• awareness

• E.g. Education double degree
• Masters Business in Engineering
• PharmD/MPH joint degree
• Extension of Natural Resources degree to new site
• Marketing of new programs approved Summer-Fall
  2004

Resources
Increased Course Offering

• Increased scholarships/fellowships
• More faculty/staffing plan
• Enhanced technology
• Increased grants and contracts
• New/enhanced facilities
• New resources into student recruitment/marketing
• Structural changes to streamline/leverage
  resources
• Hiring of unit heads, program leaders
• Enhanced open classrooms

Student Programs

• Particularly through Summer Session and ECampus
• Courses in bottleneck areas (F, W 09-05)
• Increased courses through ECampus

Marketing for Student Recruitment

• Orientation programs
• Peer mentoring
• Improved advising
• Prevention programs
• Enhance advising process for student athletes
• New orientation courses
• Goalquest FYE
• Programs on social dimensions

• Dual enrollment agreements
• Process for recruiting high achieving students
• K-12 outreach efforts
• TV/print media
• New international web site

• Other opportunities
• Community College relationships dual enrollment
  agreements, articulation
• Use Insight Resume information to develop
  targeted interventions for at-risk populations
• Assess/enhance OSUs current orientation program
  (START, CONNECT, ODYSSEY)
• Enhance social programs (e.g. through Housing
  Dining) to promote community environment

• Targeted Opportunities
• Survey of graduating seniors
• Assess success of activities initiated during
  2004-2005
• Identify additional internship and research
  opportunities for Summer 2005
• Effective advising for 2005-2006
• Orientation for new students in Summer-Fall 2005
• Planning for assessment of educational programs

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Facilities

• STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
• 2004-2005
• INCREASING RESEARCH AND OUTREACH
• September 2004 Black
• February 2005 Red
• April 2005 Blue
• Guide
• Do our plans/strategies help us achieve
  University goals?
• Are there gaps in our strategies? Are there
  opportunities overlooked?

Faculty Nurturing and Mentoring
Build Interdisciplinary Programs

• Plans for future research opportunities
• Allocation/management of existing facilities
• IT infrastructure
• University task-force on space planning

• Seed funding
• Grantmanship workshops
• Travel support to conferences, workshops
• College-level grants, workshops
• Resources for assisting faculty with proposal
  preparation

• Ensure success of proposals for Universitys
  strategic investment
• Create facilitating structures, faculty networks
  (e.g. research cooperatives)
• Encourage new research proposals
• Initiate Centers supporting interdisciplinary
  work
• Selection of 6 interdisciplinary proposals with
  significant college/univ support
• Advancing themes within academic colleges

Resources

• University-level Initiatives
• Invest in ideas to advance the thematic areas
• Strengthen D.C. presence align federal agenda
  with funding priorities
• Create signature research centers
• Assess development of Innovation Campus

• Faculty hiring in targeted areas
• Increase, diversify resource base for research
  and outreach
• Enhanced technology systems to promote
  partnerships
• Faculty searches in progress
• New research initiatives, contracts, proposals
• Expanding central web, Open Source Lab
• Competitive grant support within colleges

Increase Political Support For Fed Agenda,
regional initiatives

• Completion of FY05 Federal Agenda (and process
  for establishing priorities)

Enhance/add targeted graduate programs
Outreach Partnerships
ICR Recovery and Distribution

• Targeted programs in CLA, water resources
• Focus on recruiting PhD students

• With K-12, industry, service organizations
• Increase outreach through IS, communication
  networks
• 4-H intra-school collaboration
• Research partnerships with industry

• Negotiating ICR
• Stimulating research

• Other opportunities
• Colleges/units funding of proposals not supported
  at the university level
• Collaboration with other OUS institutions

• Targeted Opportunities
• Innovation Campus
• Centers and Institutes Task Force
• Portland Strategy
• Plan for HMSC

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• STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
• 2004-2005
• ENHANCING COMMUNITY AND DIVERSITY
• September 2004 Black
• February 2005 Red
• April 2005 Blue
• Guide
• Do our plans/strategies help us achieve
  University goals?
• Are there gaps in our strategies? Are there
  opportunities overlooked?

Recruiting Activities for Minority/International S
tudents
Outreach Programs and Minority Populations

• Market analysis for prospective students
• Scholarship/financial aid
• Targeted student recruitment
• Communication with K-12 counselors
• Student recruiting events targeting minorities
• CAMP, Gear-up grants
• Student ambassador programs
• Recruiting international students

• Effective packaging, delivery of youth outreach
  programs

On-Campus Mentoring, Support Programs

• University-level Initiatives
• Develop Diversity Action Plans
• Establish structures, networks to promote
  community and diversity initiatives
• Restructure Faculty Diversity Initiative

• Enhanced targeted internships/summer internships
• Training relative to diversity
• Services for students with disabilities, other
  disadvantaged groups
• Diversity audits initiated in some units
• DPD workshop for faculty
• Diversity training workshops

Develop/Enhance Programs And Curricula to
Support Diversity Education
Retention of Faculty, Students, Staff

• E.g. DPD courses
• Bac core
• Oregon Virtual Tribal College
• MA-Women Studies

Faculty Recruitment

• Building pipeline
• Student tutoring/mentoring programs
• Campus Climate Survey and PCOSW Parity Report

• Training for search committees
• Tenured Faculty Diversity Initiative
• Education individuals involved in search
  processes

• Other opportunities
• Leveraging multi-cultural centers
• Marketing OSU programs
• Develop pipeline from community colleges to OSU
• Inventory/audit

• Targeted Opportunities
• Initiate/complete diversity audits
• Complete diversity action plans
• Summer enrichment programs for students (e.g.
  PROMISE)