Principal Themes & Considerations
Each assessment period ODU evaluates key themes and considerations to help improve the structure and functionality of the academics and campus life at ODU.
Principal Themes
- Bolstering Old Dominion University's position as a Major Metropolitan University in the Southeast United States
- Developing and Expanding Strategic Partnerships with wide range of educational, governmental, corporate institutions
- Enriching a Student-Centered Culture on Campus
Considerations
- Identification of institutional strengths and challenges pertinent to Committee ScopeIdentification of external opportunities and threats pertinent to the Committee Scope
- Areas of Distinctiveness in Academic Programs and Research; Pillars of Excellence; Expertise
- Ideal size and composition of student body and faculty
- Perspectives of stakeholders, beneficiaries and constituencies
- University's regional, national, and international position
- Leveraging geographic advantage
- Balancing Quality and Access
- Instructional Delivery: face-to-face vs. technology-delivered/on- vs. off-campus/role of regional centers
- Service to military and veterans
- Consideration of substantial resource limitations during the planning window; presumption of reallocation of resources
- Keep recommendations at a strategic level, all the while considering relevant operational and tactical issues
- Propose directions which have reasonable potential for sustainability
Resources to be Provided
- Planning documents and recommendations arising from the Strategic Enrollment Management Process
- Draft Plans of the Academic Colleges
- SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats, Opportunities) Analysis Conducted for the Board of Visitors
- Faculty Senate General Education Recommendations
- Council of Graduate Schools Analysis of Graduate Studies and Programs
- Distance Learning Analysis of Niche and Organization
- Enrollment, Degree, and Resource Trends by Department and Program
- Higher Education Restructuring Act and Institutional Performance Measures
- Other information as requested