Strategy
ALVSCE Strategic Plan
Strategic Intents
Goals in the Three Mission Areas
- Offer applied degrees that put science to work.
- Expand undergraduate degree enrollment for students beyond the Tucson campus.
- Expand community college transfer opportunities and increase degrees awarded to transfer students.
- Enhance CALES recruitment.
- Increase retention, persistence and graduation.
- Enhance career development.
- Increase financial support for instructional excellence.
- Promote faculty teaching excellence.
- Graduate student instruction
- Build on existing research strengths and identify strategic new investment areas to maximize research achievement.
- Optimize CALES research infrastructure to support the CALES research mission.
- Define and measure resource generation for research.
- Expand communication on research activities.
- Build tech transfer, IP development, external business relations/development.
- Improved economic sustainability, natural resource management and utilization.
- Safer, more profitable and sustainable food, plant and animal systems.
- Improved community economic vitality.
- Growth and development of Arizona children and youth.
- Improve the physical, mental, emotional, and financial health of individuals and families.
- Be the key link between the UA and Arizonans.
- CALES Cooperative Extension well-integrated throughout the college.
- Asymmetric resource allocation in response to the greatest regional strategic needs.
Strategic Plans in...
- Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
- Department of Agricultural Education, Technology and Innovation
- Department of Biosystems Engineering
- Department of Entomology
- Department of Environmental Science
- Norton School of Human Ecology
- School of Natural Resources and the Environment
- School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness
- School of Plant Sciences