The main ideas that come up over and over

1. Strengthen and improve recruiting procedures

• diversify the strategies

• clarify the messages

• stress our excellence....raise our admission standards

• involve us all

2. Strengthen the contacts between faculty and students by assuring that faculty are trained in, committed to, evaluated and rewarded for teaching, advising, and connecting research to teaching

3. Provide a focused but flexible, student-centered undergraduate education

• structured entry process (extended orientation)

• strong faculty advising and mentoring

• lower division curriculum that includes....

• learning communities in the first and second years

• student placement & frequent assessment

• coherent, flexible, simplified general education requirements

• learning skills as well as self-directed learning opportunities

• upper division curriculum that includes....

• enriched majors and degree options

• opportunities for undergraduates to do research

• extended regional and international experiences - internships, exchanges, practica and other applied learning opportunities

• strong senior year programs (capstone seminars, readings, etc.)

4. Graduate education that provides

• professional masters and certificate programs as well as traditional PhDs

• programs geared to life-long learning as well as to employment

5. Campus culture that is dedicated to and invigorated by academic excellence and that

• provides numerous opportunities for connection with each other

• listens and is responsive to students' needs

• respects and extends diversity,

• recognizes the contributions that all faculty and all staff, as well as students, make to the campus and its community.

6. Rethink our administrative and college structure...find ways to make it

• more interdisciplinary and flexible in course design and approaches to undergraduate and graduate education

• more responsive to external pressures and interests and changing interests of our students and faculty

• more flexible in its structures for budget and decision-making

7. New degree programs provide a general education program for non-traditional learners and different degree programs taught through different means (short courses, night/weekends/distance learning, summer session, etc.)

8. Internal communications that occur often and in various ways torecognize and link all segments of the campus, and give consultation opportunities to classified staff and students, faculty and administrators.

9. External communcations and relationships that announce a commitment to a "new era of academic excellence", bring external constituents to our campus for first-hand experiences with our community, and involve us all in improving who we are and in telling our story

10. Continue to place opportunities to use technology to improve teaching and research in the hands of UO faculty.

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