Submissions to Task Force


    1. Provide skills that every student is required to demonstrate [PDF]
    2. Provide educational opportunities that teach creative problem solving and reasoning skills [PDF]
    3. Expand delivery modes and methods of instruction and provide a flexible academic calendar [PDF]

    1. Promote lifelong learning and an appreciation of what it means to be a service provider and leader in tomorrow’s world of health sciences, healthcare, and human services [PDF]
    2. Create public and private partnerships in which faculty and students will engage in the health sciences, healthcare, and human services arenas [PDF]
    3. Implement cooperative agreements with entities such as other higher education institutions and healthcare agencies [PDF]
    4. Provide opportunities through which students in health sciences, healthcare, and human services programs will be consistently engaged in high‐impact practices and interprofessional experiential opportunities [PDF]

    1. Promote an awareness and working knowledge of information safety and security [PDF]
    2. Create public and private partnerships in which faculty and students will engage in information and physical security arenas [PDF]
    3. Implement cooperative agreements with community colleges and public schools to offer a pathway for students to pursue information safety and security certificate and degree programs [PDF]
    4. Provide  opportunities through which students in information safety and security programs will be consistently engaged in high impact practices and co‐curricular experiential opportunities [PDF]

    1. Define a new or existing position for advancing all research on campus [PDF]
    2. Create  public  and  private  partnerships  through  which  faculty  and students will engage in research, scholarship, and creative activities [PDF]
    3. Create systematic rewards and incentives, such as recognition of independent studies and research credit hours in teaching assignments, for faculty to mentor students, produce scholarship, and seek funding [PDF]
    4. Increase research participation and productivity by creating a robust summer research program [PDF]
    5. Provide  incentives  and  support  for  embedding  and  scaffolding  research  in  required lasses within majors to expose all students, particularly those from underrepresented groups [PDF]
    6. Create  systematic  faculty  development,  such  as  learning  communities,  for  mentoring research students, grant writing, and publishing [PDF]