A more engaged university with an enhanced learning enviornment

• Encourage more Native American involvement (e.g. Howard Hughes award for undergraduate innovative teaching)
• Remove institutional roadblocks for empowering new ideas (e.g. empower staff to find a way to say yes.)
• Expand presidential awards to staff, faculty
• Hire new faculty who are known to use technology in teaching
• Valuing outreach centers, Extension Research, understanding distance and off-campus issues
• Focus resources on collaborative interdisciplinary efforts.
• De-emphasize administrative reporting and “responsibility”
• Inter-university change policy so we can work with WSU
• Engage every staff, faculty & administrator for leadership development
• Expand utilize extension and service learning services to develop and promote active, healthy communities. Communities can be university, local, state, regional, global. This work can be driven throughout our university curricula- inherently creates outreach and should result in grant procurement and scholarship. Addresses global and national health care concerns with focus on prevention. An integral piece of sustainability. Connects us globally – should pull together multiple disciplines across campus.
• Greater participation by faculty in civic engagement and volunteerism efforts in collaboration with students
• More marketing – general & targeted
• Utilize urban laboratory in Boise - urban curriculum
• Focus service learning on selected communities over bigger periods of time including all colleges in interdisciplinary projects
• End shotgun approach – each faculty member as free agent
• Evaluate relevance of all currently offered courses
• Tap current resources – finding innovative loans to deliver professional development and training using current human resources & financial resources
• Address issues of climate around LGBT individuals by providing wider access to the safe zone program & encourage staff, faculty & students to attend
• Professional development