COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
VISION
To advance health and transform communities.
Strategic Plan 2022-2025
WHAT WE VALUE
u People
An inclusive, accessible, equitable, and diverse community where the rights and dignity of all are respected. We care for the physical and mental health of our community.
We are a welcoming and inclusive student-centered research community. We pursue lives of service and intellectual exploration to solve scientific challenges and prepare students to deliver interdisciplinary healthcare with compassion and intention.
OUR THEMES
u Research & Outreach to impact local and global communities
u Partnerships & Students
to augment educational experiences
u Health & Wellness
to foster a strong community energized by its work and learning
u Institutional Effectiveness to sustain a thriving university
u Integrity & Innovation
Lifelong learning, ethical conduct, research innovation, and leadership to create a thriving URI community that serves Rhode Island and the world.
u Students
Freedom to learn, teach, and conduct research with integrity in the pursuit and dissemination of new knowledge aimed at contributing to the public good.
u Excellence in Service
Self and institutional reflection of our values in our work, scholarship and interactions to hold ourselves, each other, and the institution accountable to a high standard.
PHOTO CREDIT: GREG CLARK, CLASS OF 2022STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1: RESEARCH & OUTREACH
Broaden our impact through a reinvigorated commitment to our land and sea grant missions and the State of Rhode Island (URISP1)
Goal 1 - Private-Public Partnerships Evolve into a worldclass hub for innovation, entrepreneurship, and public-private partnerships
Goal 2 – Student Involvement in Research Foster excellence in learning and student development to include involvement in research, scholarship, and creative work that addresses real-world issues
Goal 3 – Data/Technology Expansion Leverage data and technologies in new ways
Goal 4 – Prominent Partnerships Create expansive and robust partnerships with other prominent research and health care institutions - local, state, regional, and global
Goal 5 - Communications Communicate our research successes, internally and externally, to enhance our institutional reputation
Goal 6 - Development Support and develop faculty in grant process including submission and resubmissions
STRATEGIC PRIORITY 2: PARTNERSHIPS & STUDENT LEARNING
Enhance student achievement by cultivating an engaged and inclusive learning environment strengthened by community partnerships (URISP2)
Goal 1 – Graduate Students Increase graduate student enrollment and degree completion (URISP2)
Goal 2 – Student Learning Create a diverse learning community and ensure that a URI education is within reasonable reach for all students (URISP2)
Goal 3 – URI Online Continuously invigorate the learning environment to reflect active learning, student agency, and contemporary, high-impact learning pedagogies through expanding online certificates and degrees (URISP2)
Goal 4 – Integrate with the Community Seamlessly and vigorously integrate URI College of Pharmacy into the community
Goal 5 – Alliances for Educational Impact Foster strategic alliances globally, locally, and regionally for active learning and societal impact
Goal 6 – Interdisciplinary & Experiential Learning Develop flexible academic pathways and offerings for interdisciplinary and experiential learning tied to student interests of study, exploration and work
Goal 7 – Co-Curricular Offer co-curricular opportunities that support students’ holistic needs and professional goals
Goal 8 - Communications Communicate our partnership successes, internally and externally, to enhance our institutional reputation
STRATEGIC PRIORITY 3: HEALTH & WELLNESS
Foster an inclusive, people-centered culture (URISP3)
Goal 1 – Community Cultivate a sense of community —‘one university’— where all students, faculty, and staff find themselves included and their work valued
Goal 2 - Partnerships Create strong partnerships among faculty, staff, students, advisors, career mentors, and community members
Goal 3 – Holistic Well-Being Focus on holistic well-being for all students, faculty, staff, and community members
Goal 4 – Rhody Pride Attend and support URI sporting and recreational opportunities
Goal 5 - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEI)+ Justice Foster a work and learning environment characterized by consistent, high-quality, principle-centered leadership incorporating Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEI )+ Justice in our education, community development, policies, work, and learning
STRATEGIC PRIORITY 4: INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Implement leading-edge administrative and financial systems and practices to power the University of the future (URISP4)
Goal 1 – Family-Friendly Workplace Support an innovative, contemporary, professional, family–friendly workplace
Goal 2 – Service-Oriented Become high performing, agile, responsive, creative, and service-oriented administration and support staff
Goal 3 – Pride in Work and Learning Nurture pride, ownership, and agency in work and learning
Goal 4 – Contemporary Policies and Systems Develop contemporary, fair, equitable, and inclusive policies and systems
Goal 5 – Expand Resources Employ the human capacity and provide the resources that enable the University to thrive
Goal 6 – Exceptional Effectiveness Expect exceptional effectiveness
Goal 7 – Hire Well Seek out competent, empowered, innovative and creative individuals with ample opportunity to be collaborative. Attract, recognize, and retain outstanding faculty and staff