The mission of the College of Health Sciences is to promote health of individuals, families, and populations in a diverse global society through excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, and service. Community and health care industry partnerships enable experiential learning activities to enhance the education of health care professionals and scientists.
PILLAR 1: Transformational Education
1.1 Increase interdisciplinary educational opportunities.
1.2 Increase academic-practice partnerships to enhance experiential learning activities.
1.3 Improve enrollment and retention of students prepared to have a positive impact at the local, national, and global levels.
1.4 Enhance student learning by increasing the use of best educational practices.
PILLAR 2: Global Engagement and Inclusive Culture
2.1 Support efforts that foster inclusive culture.
2.2 Enhance pathways to success for students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds.
2.3 Provide an educational foundation with upper level integration that promotes academic-practice partnerships to support the engagement of students with diverse populations regionally and globally.
2.4 Increase international collaborations for research and education of undergraduate and graduate students.
PILLAR 3: Innovative Research & Entrepreneurship
3.1 Foster interdisciplinary research that leads to increased extramural funding.
3.2 Increase the dissemination of student and faculty research at the local, national, and international levels.
3.3 Increase faculty relationships with clinical, community and industry partners for research and entrepreneurship.
3.4 Increase undergraduate and graduate student opportunities for research and entrepreneurship.
PILLAR 4: Leverage Our Legacy and Our Place
4.1 Develop effective messaging strategies to promote a positive image of the college, departments and schools.
4.2 Strengthen relationships with our students, alumni and faculty emeriti.
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4.3 Expand capabilities for student recruitment, retention, and workforce integration.
4.4 Build and sustain local, regional, national, and international academic-practice partnerships.
PILLAR 5: Entrepreneurial Stewardship in Higher Education
5.1 Develop and implement an innovative plan to increase philanthropic support.
5.2 Cultivate faculty, staff, and student leaders.
5.3 Promote the health and well-being of students, faculty, and staff.
5.4 Promote sustainability and entrepreneurship as components of undergraduate and graduate education.
Definitions of Terms
Community Partners
Relationships that faculty maintain with local, regional or national agencies and industry that provide collaborative experiential learning and research opportunities for students and faculty.
Entrepreneurship
Provide students and faculty with opportunities to learn how to commit to an idea to research and launch new products or services that solve real-world problems. Entrepreneurial spirit is characterized by innovation and risk-taking, and is essential to finding novel solutions and starting new ventures.
There is a need for entrepreneurs in health care to act as change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss, improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions in the health care market place.
Sustainability
The 1987 Report of the Brundtland Commission, "Our Common Future," defined sustainability as: meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Three dimensions -- economic, environmental, and social -- are required to enjoy a high quality of life. Society is unstable if one of them is weak.
Inclusive Culture
An inclusive culture involves the full and successful integration of diverse people into a workplace or industry.
While an inclusive culture certainly encompasses a commitment to workplace diversity, it is not limited simply to basic representation; it indicates a climate in which respect, equity, and positive recognition of differences are all cultivated, and the social and institutional response to diversity poses no barrier to a positive employment experience.
Entrepreneurial Stewardship
Being creative and innovative in supporting faculty, staff and students. Incorporating the underlying themes of sustainability and entrepreneurship in our work.
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