Steering Committee

The Committee will advise the President on positioning the University for strength in the coming decade by:

• Using situational analysis, informed by research data, to identify institutional and college-level challenges and opportunities in the internal and external environment.  
• Prioritizing areas for short- and long-term investment.  
• Intentionally building an ethnically, racially, and culturally diverse healthcare workforce of excellence through collaborations and strategic partnerships to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare nationally and globally.  
• Developing criteria and benchmarks for assessing progress toward WesternU’s strategic goals.

The committee will fulfill its charge by:  

• Developing a roadmap for WesternU’s strategic path forward and setting the trajectory for college-level plans based on the challenges and opportunities of each academic unit.    
• Working collaboratively with students, staff, faculty, and alumni to support academic and administrative units in creating a framework that outlines the strategic path forward and supports their alignment with a university-wide plan.  
• In the practice of shared governance, collaborating with students, staff, faculty, alumni, and other key stakeholders via a comprehensive outreach and engagement strategy.  
• Reviewing campus feedback and survey research findings.