Transcript Strategic Plan Components - Penn State College of Education

- Strategic Priorities Emerging Directions and Actions
WORKING DRAFT
1/13/14
Foundational Principles
Supporting Strategies
Guiding Principles for Resource Allocation
“NEW THEME” TBD
Valuing and Exploring
Our Cultures
Building Our Digital
Future
Transforming Education
Stewarding Our
Resources
Promoting Our Health
Mission
Values
Vision
Working Groups for
Strategic Priorities
Purposes
 Short to medium-term
* Creating a one-page statement (what a theme means, what
* Penn State aspires to, metrics, targets, timelines…)
* Building input to/framework for the PSU plan
 Short to long-term
* Moving the conversation forward
* Promoting connections and collaborations across
departments, colleges, campuses.
* Identifying and engaging faculty & staff, trustees, donors.
Promoting Our Health
 Nutrition
 Behaviors (exercise, lifestyle, interventions…)
 Disease (prevention , infectious disease…)
 Health care systems
 Special populations (youth, aging, urban, rural…)
 Environmental health
 Personalized medicine
 Environmental insults (climate, pollution, antibiotic resistance…)
 Biodata and informatics
 The human system (bio, cognitive, affective, social, neural,
genetic….)
 Science/engineering/materials/genomics/computing/medicine…
Stewarding Our Resources
 Water
 Energy (“smart energy”, natural gas, coal, renewable,
materials…)
 Land use
 Ecology
 Food
 Global connections
 Sustainability
 Cyberscience
 Organizational, political, and social sciences (communication,
behaviors, decision-making….)
Transforming Education
 Innovation in teaching & learning
 STEM leadership: education and outreach
 Understanding the relationship of new technologies to
learning
 Student engagement
 Flipping the classroom
 General education
 Access & affordability
 Extending education (campuses, online, VLN)
 K-16 and beyond
 Global reach
 Assisting special-needs and other unique (adults, veterans…)
populations
Building Our Digital Future
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Mobile computing
Big data & big simulations
Quantitative social sciences
Analytics
Risk and privacy
Digitization of libraries (and other sources)
Natural sciences
Impacts on education
Imaging
Computation and data science
“The Internet of things”
Discovery and access
Digital humanities
Knowledge creation
Valuing and Exploring Our Cultures
 Equity, honor & integrity, moral literacy, ethics (including research
ethics)
 Civic engagement
 Understanding democracy
 Arts and humanities
 Social systems
 Communication and media
 Remediating disparities (health, education, community resources, global
society…)
 Language
 “Cultures of making” (design, arts, architecture…)
 Community based research & practices (local, national, global…)
 Crossing disciplinary and professional communities (materials, life
sciences, manufacturing, physical & life sciences, social sciences,
business & industry…)