2: Reputation
Gain a National Reputation Through Key Academic Programs and Scholarship Other Information:
Strategically advance our nationally recognized academic programs. Reallocate resources to programs that have or could attain
national prominence as measured by faculty reputation and successful graduates, including modeling and simulation, physics,
bio-electrics and bioengineering, education leadership and counseling programs, ocean sciences and engineering, among others.
Support programs that successfully meet demonstrated local and regional needs, such as health sciences, nursing, economic
forecasting, creative writing, and science, technology and mathematics (STEM) education. Increase efforts to attract high-achieving
students, promote the scholarly achievements of our faculty, strategically increase the number of full-time faculty in prominent
or promising programs, emphasize interdisciplinary opportunities, and affirm our identity as a graduate institution through
concentrated attention to graduate student recruitment and support. Rationale: We have many programs, some quite new, others
more established, that have been recognized in national ratings or that hold promise to have significant national impact.
We want those programs to continue to draw positive attention, even climb in the rankings, or else generate further grant
money, good publicity, and/or interest to attract top quality students and faculty. Therefore, it is important to direct resources
to those areas without at the same time undermining the value of other programs that, by virtue of their steady or increasing
enrollment, importance to General Education or other core programs, significance to college mission, or other signs of vitality,
deserve continued strong support. This will mean making hard choices about continuing support for programs that show steadily
declining enrollments, inability to hire strong faculty, or failure to support college or university core missions.
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