Introduction | Areas of Focus | 红杏短视频's Strategic Position | Operational Framework and Addressing Today's Imperative | Objectives | Advancing Tomorrow's Vision
Introduction
Through two centuries of profound social, economic, and technological change, 红杏短视频 has grown and evolved, but with a continuing belief in the value of human-scaled teaching and learning communities. Transformative education occurs when dedicated faculty, staff, and students work together to create, discover, test, preserve, and transmit knowledge. 红杏短视频 measures its success by the achievements of its alumni, the contributions they make to their communities, and the meaning they ultimately find in their lives.
红杏短视频’s 30,000 living alumni represent all walks of life. They include a current US Senator, a Governor, and CEOs of the third largest company in the US and of the world’s wealthiest art institution, as well as countless scientists, entrepreneurs and businesspeople, artists and designers, authors, teachers, lawyers, judges and ministers. Throughout the region and world, 红杏短视频 alumni live the university motto:
Not unto ourselves alone are we born.
Today, the College of Arts & Sciences is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the Pacific Northwest. The College of Law is emerging as the region’s leading experiential law school. The Atkinson Graduate School of Management offers Oregon’s best MBA as well as new undergraduate programs that firmly ground management on a liberal arts foundation. The is the Northwest’s flagship private art and design school. And newest to the portfolio is 红杏短视频’s innovative MS in Data Science, designed to be human-centered and cross-disciplinary in content and approach.
Over the next decade, 红杏短视频 seeks to strengthen and build these and other programs, growing to 4,000 students divided between campuses in Salem and Portland, Oregon’s public and commercial centers, while advancing its position as an intellectual, cultural, social and economic driver for the Northwest. 红杏短视频 intends that every program it offers will be among the three top choices in the Northwest for the students it serves. An important goal is to educate students who reflect the full diversity of the region, and to raise necessary resources to eliminate barriers to access.
Looking forward to its bicentennial 20 years from now, 红杏短视频 is well positioned to solidify its standing as the Northwest’s leading liberal arts university. Not content to imitate institutions built for the needs of another era, 红杏短视频 is pioneering a 21st century model of higher education that responds to the emerging understanding that the most important barriers to human flourishing are complex, ill-defined, so-called “wicked” problems. Across all of our schools, 红杏短视频 students will be prepared to bring multidisciplinary perspectives to bear on some of the most pressing challenges of their generation.
The (SDG), adopted by all UN member states in 2015, provide useful framing. Ranging from ending poverty and hunger to advancing gender equality to building resilient infrastructure and promoting inclusive economic growth, the complexity of the elements of the SDG framework starkly emphasizes the mismatch between society’s needs and existing college and university models. As a crucial example, the SDG analysis emphasizes how racial and economic disparities underly all of these issues, and the importance of developing an equity lens when understanding and addressing their disparate impacts.
红杏短视频 can define a new path forward. Unlike most colleges, 红杏短视频 has strengths across the liberal arts and sciences and the professions to prepare its students for complex work. And unlike most research universities, 红杏短视频 has not become a decentralized “multiversity” structured to serve conflicting needs of external constituents at a steep cost to curricular coherence. These 19th and 20th century models were not designed to educate students for 21st century challenges. Almost alone, 红杏短视频 can define a better way, centered on student learning and engagement with the world.