Institutional Priorities

(last updated 9/1/2021)

  1. Strengthen the University Infrastructure to improve the wellbeing and growth of OW community members:

    1. Faculty to include:
      1. Pay Equity
      2. Teaching
      3. Research
      4. Service & Faculty Governance
        1. Chairs (professional and institutional impacts)
        2. Governance
    2. Staff to include:
      1. Pay Equity
      2. Professional Development
      3. Services for Staff
    3. Students to include:
      1. Affordability
      2. Student Engagement
      3. Seamless Student Services
      4. Retention & Graduation
      5. Preparation for post graduate success
      6. Wellness, Safety & Belonging
      7. vii.Career Placement and Advancement
    4. Effective Collaborations (Silo-Busting*)
      1. Transparency
    5. Customer Service 
      1. Training/Development
      2. Expanded hours
    6. Environmental Sustainability*
  2. Improve Institutional Capacity to include:

    1. Use of Technology & Space
    2. Fiscal Management & Financial Stability
    3. Course Availability
    4. Registrar Services
    5. Enrollment
    6. Fundraising
    7. External Resources*
      1. Partnerships & Externships
      2. LI community/business leaders and community at large (local community, business partners, partner with higher education institutions
      3. State and Federal Partnerships
    8. Assessment 
      1. College-wide
      2. Divisional 
    9. Improve Business Process Review and Optimization
    10. Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) Accessibility across the College*
  3. Innovate Transformative Programs to include:

    1. Elevate the University’s Identity, its Brand and Spirit
      1. Amplify HSI/MSI programs*
      2. Campus Beautification
    2. Signature Programs:
      1. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math)
      2. DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)
      3. Additional Academic Programs
    3. Residential College *
    4. Social Justice Center
  4. Advance Educational Models

    1. Curriculum Development 
    2. Resources
    3. Pedagogical Innovation
    4. Instructional Modalities
    5. Online Education
    6. Policies and Procedures
    7. Enhance Technological Infrastructure
    8. Applied/Experiential Learning (Curricular & Co-Curricular)
      1. Internships
      2. Other forms of applied learning
  5. Advance a Culture of Excellence: Initiate efforts (programs, systems, initiatives) that enhance and establish a culture of excellence.

    1. Collaboration
      1. Transparency
      2. Encouraging dialogue, social interactions across units
    2. EIT Accessibility
    3. Service and Faculty Governance
    4. Wellness & Belonging
    5. Assessment
  6. Examples: Teaching and Learning centers, Tinker Center, Think Tank, Faculty Center...

Shared Terms: A Glossary of Intention*

(Alphabetical)

Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) Accessibility: works to assure that individuals with disabilities have equitable access to electronic information resources. From purchasing and creating digital content to software, the focus is rightly placed on universal design, allowing all individuals to engage.

External Resources: Proposals that speak to resources in/outside our college network including but not limited to partnerships: LI Community, Business leaders and community at large (local community, business partners, Partnering Higher Educational institutions, State and Federal Partnerships.

Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI): A Hispanic-serving institution is defined in federal law as an accredited, degree-granting, public or private nonprofit institution of higher education with 25% or more total undergraduate Hispanic or Latino full-time equivalent student enrollment.

Minority-Serving Institution (MSI): In the higher education system of the United States, minority-serving institution is a descriptive term for universities and colleges that enroll a significant percentage of students from “minority” groups 

HIS/MSI programs strive to:

  • ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation through vigorous enforcement of civil rights. 
  • expand educational opportunities for; and improve the academic attainment of Hispanic students; and
  • expand and enhance the academic offerings, program quality, and institutional stability of the colleges and universities that educate the majority of Hispanic students.

Residential College:

A residential college is a collegiate residential environment in which live-in faculty play an integral role in the programmatic experience and leadership of the community.  Some may have features that include:

    • Academic department association
    • Strong partnerships and collaboration between academic affairs and student affairs
    • Linked credit-bearing academic courses
    • Academic experiences (curricular and/or co-curricular) infused into the life of the residential college
    • Traditional programming including social events, meals, and associated faculty-student engagement      

Sustainability has been broadly applied to characterize improvements in areas like natural resources overexploitation, manufacturing operations (its energy use and polluting subproducts), the linear consumption of products, the direction of investments, citizen lifestyle, consumer purchasing behaviors, technological developments or business and general institutional changes. 

  • Environmental Sustainability: Environmental management, Pollution Prevention, Energy efficiency, incentives for use of natural resources and waste management.
  • Institutional Sustainability: Business ethics, Labor rights, Fair trade, Human rights, Profit, Cost savings, economic growth, research and development.
  • Social Sustainability: (Residential College) Standards of living, Education/Living and Learning, Community and Equal Opportunity. 
  • Silo-busting is the idea that existing silos must be disrupted in order to create more inclusive and collaborative systems of efficiency