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The Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI) focuses on particular components of LSU's overall strategic plan, with an intense effort to pursue strategic initiatives that will produce
- systemic improvements in the mentoring of faculty, students, and staff with an emphasis to achieve excellence at all levels;
- coordinated efforts to enhance the receipt of external student awards (e.g., Rhodes, Marshall, and Goldwater Fellows);
- coordinated efforts to enhance the receipt of external faculty awards (e.g., Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellows);
- coordinated efforts to establish LSU as a leading provider of graduate degrees to underrepresented groups (particularly African American Ph.D.s) in a variety of disciplines;
- coordinated efforts to enhance and improve the number of students from underrepresented groups who pursue and complete undergraduate degrees at LSU in the SMET (science, mathematics, engineering, and technology) areas;
- coordinated efforts with the Office of Academic affairs to recruit outstanding faculty to the University, with special emphasis on faculty from underrepresented groups;
- direct partnership initiatives (e.g., LAMP and joint faculty appointments) with other Louisiana institutions;
- coordinated efforts to generate external awards, including funds and training grants, to support all of these efforts.
Achievement of the goals of this unit requires a close alliance with other units throughout the University. Such units include, but are not limited to 1) the Office of Academic Affairs, 2) the Graduate School, 3) the Honors College, 4) the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Basic Sciences, Education, and Engineering, and 5) the Center for Scientific and Mathematical Literacy. Collaborating units are represented on OSI's Advisory Board, which provides advice to the Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives on both policy and programmatic issues.
To learn more about the office, contact
Zakiya S. Wilson, Executive Assistant
Phone: 225-578-5228
Fax: 225-578-7231
zwilson@lsu.edu |
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