Strategies and action items
Promote effective and inclusive teaching practices.
- Develop, provide, and disseminate programming to discover and inform faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants about high impact practices.
- Develop and provide programming and stewardship to support faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants in learning and implementing evidence-based inclusive teaching practices.
Promote innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Create and support opportunities for students to participate in innovation and entrepreneurial experiences.
Continue to enhance the undergraduate educational experience by:
- Developing and offering new undergraduate courses and programming in emerging topics.
- Expanding opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in cross disciplinary and societal experiences that provide them with skills outside of their major.
- Increasing undergraduate student engagement in hands-on research and industry- and community-based learning experiences.
Continue to enhance the graduate educational experience by:
- Developing and offering new graduate courses and programming in emerging topics
- Expanding opportunities for graduate students to engage in cross disciplinary and societal experiences that provide them with skills outside of their major.
- Promote participation in professional development opportunities, complementing class and research group work (campus workshops, industry internships, mentor training, entrepreneurialism)
Increase professional education opportunities.
- Identify the market for and secure resources to expand online degree offerings in high demand fields.
- Develop online master’s programs from currently offered residential degrees
- Identify major thrust areas for professional development based on desired core competencies and develop appropriate traditional, accelerated, and residential programming.