OSU Strategic Vision-2007

OSU-2007: Strategic Vision -- (this is a process that started in 2002 to create a future vision for OSU.)

The current version of the 2007 plan is at http://oregonstate.edu/leadership/strategicplan/goals.html

The University aspires to have positive and measurable impacts on the civic, economic, environmental, and social foundation of society - particularly for the major issues that are important to Oregon in its global context - and as such be recognized for excellence as a 21st-Century land, sea and space-grant university.

Fostering areas of excellence enables the vision, including attracting and retaining top faculty, staff and students, building an environment that embraces diversity and a global perspective, and configuring for efficiency and effectiveness of operations in the context of a changing and competitive environment.

Consequently, the University will:

1. Provide high quality disciplinary, professional, and interdisciplinary programs in which stakeholder constituents, including students and various 'publics', are meaningfully engaged.

2. Accelerate the development of excellence in five thematic areas: arts, sciences, and education; atmosphere, earth, and ocean systems; biosciences and health; engineering, business and technology; and natural resources. *

3. Attract and retain students of the highest quality and potential, and be recognized for excellence in providing a nurturing, challenging, and supportive environment for the student experience.

4. Attract and retain excellent faculty and staff, and foster a supportive environment for personal and professional growth, contribution, and satisfaction.

5. Increase recognition for an international and global perspective, and for providing such opportunities to faculty, staff, and students.

6. Advance diversity as a core educational value and to foster an environment that welcomes inclusiveness.

7. Provide robust information and communication systems that enable first-rate instructional, research, outreach, and administrative/business practices.

8. Optimally configure and manage academic and administrative units to capitalize on new opportunities and be maximally cost-effective.

9. Fully implement a coherent, visible and sustainable budget process, and provide a resource management practice that optimizes the generation and allocation of resources to core functions of the university, thereby advancing the strategic vision.

10. Engage university, OUS, state and private efforts to invest in facilities and people that enable first-rate instructional, research, and outreach programs.

11. Establish appropriate metrics to benchmark and set targets to measure progress toward our strategic vision.

* Five thematic areas:

* Arts, sciences, and education - core to the excellence of all educational programs; provides a foundation for the respective disciplinary teaching, research, scholarship, and outreach programs
* Atmosphere, earth, and ocean systems--understand and predict the long-term changes in the ocean, climate and terrestrial ecosystems, particularly of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest; improve predictive capacity for environmental hazards and change; use best available science to inform local, state, and national economic, environmental and social policy and practice
* Biosciences and health--develop and apply new technologies, strategies, products and policies to protect and improve the health of people, families, and communities, animals, and natural and human-dominated environments
* Engineering, business, and technology--develop and apply technology and entrepreneurial skills to drive Oregon's economy by improving and expanding current businesses, creating new businesses, and contributing to high quality life throughout the state
* Natural resources--improve the productivity, economic viability, and conservation of agricultural, forest, and marine resources, while concurrently improving environmental quality