(last updated October 2025)
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: PPB26
(2025-2026)
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: 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 shape 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 is focused on linking academic priorities to urgent social challenges. Proposals should demonstrate alignment with our core values (listed on the strategic plan) while addressing the interconnection of environmental sustainability and financial stability, intercultural and global understanding, and long-term institutional vitality.
Proposals should achieve the stated metrics and address one or more of the following:
- Engagement & Belonging: Drive affinity to, and connection across OW.
- Student & Enrollment Success: Advance recruitment, persistence, retention, graduation and post-graduation outcomes.
- Signature Programs: Establish or elevate distinctive academic and co-curricular programs.
- Revenue Generation: Diversify and enhance revenue streams.
- Strengthening Processes & Infrastructure: Invest in resilient systems, modern technologies, sustainable practices, and support for scholarship and teaching.
- A.I. Everywhere: Promote ethical and environmentally sustainable use of artificial intelligence as a transformative tool.