OHIO will elevate both teaching and research, expand experiential learning, and invest in innovative educational technology.
Dynamic Strategy
Dynamic Strategy
OHIO’s Dynamic Strategy sets out to build on our founding purpose and embrace our existing excellence. Beginning in Fall 2023, thousands of faculty, staff, students and alumni engaged in refining our University’s mission and vision and designing goals and strategies to guide our institution’s future. The objective was to craft bold, audacious ideas to move us forward and inform a roadmap to guide our work for the next three years.
To guide the development of the Dynamic Strategy, President Gonzalez divided the planning into four areas of excellence in which she hoped to define distinctive goals. Three of those are built around the public institution’s calling – teaching and learning, research and discovery, and outreach and engagement. The fourth centers on the people and culture that undergird and enable the first three.
Pillars
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DISCOVER
OHIO will increase distinction in two focused areas of research and accelerate emerging areas of discovery to address humanity’s most urgent challenges.
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ENGAGE
OHIO will actively engage with partners to drive prosperity in the region, meet the needs of the state, and prepare students for careers.
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WORK
OHIO will become a destination employer for those passionate about the mission of public higher education.
Implementation Framework
The implementation of the Dynamic Strategy is being led by Executive Vice President and Provost Don Leo and Vice President of University Communications and Marketing Robin Oliver.
The work of each pillar is overseen by an Executive Leadership Team (ELT), and the members can be found on each of the pillar pages. The ELTs will assign work groups as needed to move initiatives forward. In addition, Provost Leo and Vice President Oliver have charged an Implementation Advisory Committee (IAC) to provide feedback on implementation activities, offer ideas, and ensure progress against the designed metrics.
Mission and Vision Refresh
As the first step in the strategic planning process, President Gonzalez charged a small group of university leaders to review and refresh the University’s mission and vision with input from the full University community. The work of the Dynamic Strategy aligns with a supports the new University mission, vision and values.
A downloadable PDF of the Dynamic Strategy is available as well. The goals and strategies for each pillar are provided in an accessible web format at the links above.