Strides - Navigating the Path to the Future
Fall Semester 2025
- Healthy Campus Awareness Campaign: Promoting mental and physical health education through a range of media platforms, and traditional venues. October: “Wellness Awareness Month.”
- You Belong & Courageous Conversations: A campaign to build school pride, and to promote a sense of belonging on campus.
- Impact of Artificial Intelligence: integrate recommendations of the AI Task Force, and identify ways to use AI to support learning, teaching, discovery, and scholarly
- Learning & Growth Culture: Findings from the employee survey will be the basis for a campus-wide conversation on how to address employees’ concern and improve the campus workplace.
- Partners in Education: Faculty Advisory Team (FTA) convenes to facilitate communication and faculty engagement. Focus is on promoting excellence in scholarship, interdisciplinary collaboration, seed funding for research, conducting workshops and hosting visiting scholars and lectures.
- Evaluation of the Center for Education, Teaching & Learning (CETL): A team of faculty and administrators will review current CETL programs to determine a “needs assessment.”
- The OU Pledge: A report of the impact of experiential learning presented at the Fall Career Fair.
- Champions: Moving to the next stage of a strategic approach to create high performances in the athletic arena and classroom.
- Cultural Ambassadors: Identifying ways to integrate the arts and humanities throughout campus life.
- Sustainability in Three Parts: A comprehensive approach that includes addressing issues related to creating a sustainable campus, academy and business model.
Winter Semester
- Take the Health Challenge: A campus-wide pledge to for students, faculty and staff to engage in activities to improve their health.
- Faculty Mentorship Program: Establish policies to promote faculty success, job satisfaction and enhance a sense of belonging.
- SEM 2.0: Establish plan to support SEM 2.0 development and execution.
- Refine Academic Portfolio: Establish committee of faculty, staff and administrators to assess trends in current majors, graduate degrees, and certificates, and review general education requirements.
- Enhancing Guidance: Addressing ways to improve academic student support services.
- Center for Undergraduate Research: Form a planning committee to define the purpose and mission of the center, ensuring alignment with the university’s strategic plan/vision.
Summer Semester 2026
- Path to R1: Charting a path to R1 status as designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Higher Education.
- Mid-Career Academy: Establishing support for faculty conducting research throughout their careers.
