Academic Year 2024–25
Effective and coordinated implementation is critical. Implementation began in Fall 2024, with a focus on three goals:
- Creating the operational structures and plans to sustain our ongoing work,
- Identifying and implementing strategy-specific milestones, and
- Creating awareness and aligning work across the university Oregon Rising goals, strategies, and principles.
It will take all of us to achieve success. We are a diverse university community with a broad range of positions and roles that support different areas of the University of Oregon. Whether your position connects directly to a strategic goal or strategy or whether your daily work supports the overall operations of the University, we all have a part to play in implementing our strategic plan.
Phases One and Two: "UO Onward"
- Collected broad constituent input
- 25 facilitated input sessions and a survey
- Identified questions, concerns and ideas
- Synthesized strategic engagement input
- Identified goals, strategies, key performance indicators, signature areas of scholarship and implementation principles
- Surveyed constituents and integrated input
Phases Three and Four: "Oregon Rising"
- Implementation plan focused on:
- Creating structures
- Strategy-based milestones
- Awareness and alignment
- Reflection, learning and adjustment of strategies
- Annual implementation plan development
- Campus-wide buy-in and ownership
How can I support the strategic plan implementation efforts?
Every school, college, division and portfolio is distinct in its purpose, size, composition of units/departments, specific staff and faculty roles, and norms for how they engage internally. For this reason, creating awareness and facilitating alignment with the strategic plan will look different across the university this first year.
Furthermore, some units/departments and particular employees’ roles have core work that is specifically related to one or more of our four goals and their strategies while others may perform functions that are more foundational and less robustly tied to the specific goals and strategies.
Whether your work aligns directly with a strategic goal, you’re invited to support an implementation workgroup, or you provide general foundational university support, you are supporting UO and its future successes.
There is one thing that unites us all in this work: our shared values and principles. Please consider how you can incorporate these more deeply in your current work. For example, breaking down silos while you fulfill your job responsibilities and celebrating your team or department’s successes are two pivotal ways you can connect with Oregon Rising. In fact, those two principles alone connect to and promote all our shared values: shared responsibility, courage, joy, equity, and excellence. Incorporating these shared principles into your daily work, no matter the scope or responsibilities of the position, ensures that we are moving, together, towards successful implementation of Oregon Rising.
