Summary of Actions and Tactics
Launch a campaign for timely undergraduate degree completion.
- Set and track academic unit targets for retention and graduation and reward success.
- Substantially increase need-based scholarships.
- Launch a signature new student onboarding experience, including reformed first-year advising.
- Strengthen partnerships with community colleges.
- Explore instating a block (flat) tuition rate model.
Build international research distinction in areas of competitive advantage.
- Increase colleges’ tenure/tenure-track hiring in target areas.
- Invest in research support infrastructure and programs, including doctoral education, especially in target areas.
- Invest in four priority research areas and in building foundational strength in artificial intelligence, data science and research computing across Oregon State.
- Consolidate and invest in infrastructure that will better support scholarship, creative work and research in the arts and humanities and their intersection with target areas.
Build an enterprise approach to knowledge translation, innovation and partnerships.
- Launch an economic development and industry relations strategy.
- Build capacity to link research and translation to application and use.
- Launch a new Portland metro strategy.
- Leverage global networks and partnerships to create additional competitive advantage in research and teaching.
Build faculty excellence.
- In academic units, set and hold ourselves accountable to targets for research, scholarship, and creative work, and for teaching excellence and educational innovation.
- Launch a joint central and college-level faculty excellence hiring initiative to support targeted tenure/tenure-track hiring.
- Launch a professional development campaign for course design, teaching and assessment.
- Increase awards and recognition for distinguished teaching.
- Expand efforts to increase the number of Oregon State faculty recognized by major scientific and scholarly societies.
Significantly increase enrollment online and at OSU-Cascades.
- Implement an integrated college and university-level strategy to more than double online enrollment.
- Implement a college and university growth strategy for OSU-Cascades.
- Implement a strategy for Corvallis campus enrollment.
- Grow professional graduate program offerings.