Through this plan, we will build upon the strength of existing collaborative initiatives and interdisciplinary programs while generating new resources, spaces, and faculty lines for an educational experience that guarantees opportunities to discover, design, inquire, and create across domains of knowledge.
Specific goals include:
- Improve structures and increase potential for faculty and students to work across existing departments and programs, at the intersections of the liberal arts, engineering, and beyond
- Expand opportunities for social innovation, creative scholarship and activity, entrepreneurial mindsets, and inclusive collaboration and integration across centers, the libraries, and academic departments and programs
- Refine and resource academic advising to ensure close advising and mentorship structures informed by the range of possibilities implicit in the “And” across the four-year experience
- Increase resources and endowed funding in the Office of the Provost to encourage the scholarship, research, mentorship, and travel crucial to recruiting and retaining a world-class faculty
- Create an Interdisciplinary Challenge Lab that invites faculty and students from across the institution to collaborate on projects and identify solutions to societal problems