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Preserve and enhance academic distinction
Build a distinctive, first-choice, comprehensive university that is widely recognized for its high-quality academics; strong programs; high-caliber students, faculty, and staff; and exceptional and diverse learning experiences. |
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Directions |
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Establish rigorous standards and assessment
measures for quality of teaching and student learning experiences and success. Implement
programs to achieve standards and recognize outcomes. |
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Support public relations efforts that create a positive perception of WOU and its programs and enhance academic distinction and expectations, both internally and externally. |
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Review and revise Liberal Arts Core Curriculum in coordination with new directions determined by the strategic planning process. |
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Reexamine funding priorities and find new avenues of support for academic programs, infrastructure, and scholarships. |
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Establish and support exceptional and diverse living and learning communities and experiences. |
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Encourage and support distinctive and innovative programs and delivery methods which respond to the changing needs of students and society. |
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Establish and support visiting faculty programs. |
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Achieve student centeredness
Create a supportive, personalized and responsive
environment that prepares students for continued university, career and life success. |
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Directions |
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Create an environment in which student success is paramount and is a responsibility shared by everyone at WOU. |
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Offer and support quality academic programs that are flexible and innovative and are responsive to the needs of a diverse student body and society. |
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Support learning with a coordinated system of academic and non-academic programs, processes and resources.
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Ensure that student advising is consistent, accurate, timely, personalized and collaborative. |
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Enrich the learning community with engaging experiences, activities and environments that contribute to a successful and fulfilled citizenry. |
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Enhance academic knowledge with practical experiences including mentoring, internships, research, service learning and independent studies. |
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Implement and support technological applications for personalized and efficient student-centered transactions. |
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Acquire and keep diverse and distinguished people
Increase the recruitment and retention of outstanding
and diverse students, faculty and staff. |
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Directions |
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Increase access to and availability of financial
support for students. |
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Maintain and enhance support mechanisms for
students. |
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Advance the means to increase salaries of faculty
and staff to competitive levels. |
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Increase flexibility of responsibilities, job assign-
ments, workload and scheduling. |
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Improve support, recognition and reward of
quality performance. |
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Develop academic and non-academic programs
to promote diversity and meet the needs of all,
especially non-traditional and minority students,
staff and faculty. |
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Encourage greater participation in and advance-ment of programs that facilitate understanding and the exchange of people and ideas in international, multicultural and cross-cultural arenas. |
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Focus on meeting cross-unit needs
Provide an efficient and reliable infrastructure that meets physical, human, technological and financial needs. |
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Directions |
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Create an infrastructure that enhances quality of life and encourages social interaction on campus and within the local community. |
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Provide quality facilities to meet the instructional,
technological and communication needs of the
campus. |
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Provide efficient services by streamlining systems, communications and organizational procedures. |
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Increase cross-disciplinary and inter-institutional cooperation and collaboration. |
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Develop a systematic and inclusive approach to improving the campus infrastructure. |
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Develop and promote a cooperative internal and external environment
Enhance communication, collaboration and understand-ing among students, faculty, staff, administration, alumni,
and local and global communities. |
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Directions |
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Utilize market research and campus-wide participation to develop a public relations plan to promote the goals of the university. |
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Establish collaborative partnerships linking community and professional individuals with related campus units. |
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Serve as a resource to the surrounding communities, region and state. |
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Create a working environment that fosters open communication and recognizes both individual and collective contributions. |
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