Priorities, Key Focus Areas, & Incubating Projects
The Office of the Provost is engaged in several fronts to assist the students, faculty, and staff in their success and to advance the mission and vision of RIT. This work is best described in terms of long-term priorities, key focus areas, and incubating projects. This year’s work plan.
- Priorities are made up of five strategic areas of work that are driving our success as a campus – student success, academic excellence, research and innovation, faculty and staff success, and inclusive and global education.
- Key focus areas are those areas of work that are of immediate importance and support the mission, vision, and priorities of RIT. These key focus areas include the calendar conversion process, the RIT-RGHS alliance, and academic curricular planning.
- Incubating projects include those activities and work that are in their initial planning and research stages. As these projects are developed and enter the implementation stage, they become initiatives under the priorities or activities under the key focus areas.
Student Success
The collection of work and activities that support and lead to the success of our students as measured by achievement of learning and completion of degree.
Calendar Conversion
The RIT campus is actively engaged in work that will lead to a shift from an academic quarter-based system to an academic semester system. The new semester academic calendar will begin fall 2013.
Online Learning
RIT has a strong reputation for its innovative approaches to online learning. With the calendar conversion process underway, this is an optimal time to recommit and refresh our expertise and approach to this central pedagogy.
