(last updated July 2026)
Institutional Priorities are identified annually by the Cabinet through a collaborative process that aligns with the Strategic Plan, ensuring that each year's PPB proposals are focused and impactful.
Institutional Priorities: PPB27
(2027-2028)
SUNY Old Westbury’s (OW) identity is grounded in a proud tradition of academic excellence, access, diversity, and equity, that distinguishes us within higher education. We call on our community to envision projects that embody our unique mission of Liberal Arts Excellence: cultivating inclusive excellence, advancing social justice, and preparing students to thrive in a global society, with an innovative spirit.
Led by excellence and innovation, our six institutional priorities will focus our Performance Plan to Budget (PPB) efforts to animate the 2026–2031 Strategic Plan. This process will begin with a request for proposals that responds to today’s challenges and shapes our future growth. Project proposals must describe an initiative that seeks deeper engagement throughout the broader university community to realize our strategic outcomes and metrics.
Old Westbury is committed to excellence and focused on linking academic priorities to urgent social challenges. Proposals should demonstrate alignment with our core values while addressing the interconnection of environmental sustainability and financial stability, intercultural and global understanding, and long-term institutional vitality.
Proposals should achieve stated metrics and address one or more of the following institutional priorities:
- Student & Enrollment Success: Strengthen and develop recruitment pathways and improve retention, graduation rates and post-graduate outcomes.
- Revenue Generation: Identify and develop capacity-building opportunities that enable long-term revenue growth.
- Program Offerings: Establish or elevate distinctive academic programs; which may include workforce and community impact, and online, STEAM, and pre-professional programs.
- Operational Growth: Identify and implement targeted solutions to improve administrative efficiency and/or data gathering, quality and assessment across institutional systems.
- Culture, Morale & Professional Investment: Design programs and initiatives that improve employee sense of belonging, recognition, shared purpose, and professional capacity.
- Physical Infrastructure: Advance cross-divisional improvements that prioritize sustainability, accessibility, and space usage.