Next Lives Here: Platforms & Pathways Explained Academic Excellence Platform A commitment to student success coupled with distinctive research and creative scholarship, teaching, and service will always be the bedrock of our mission. To accelerate student success and graduate impact-driven leaders, we must attract, invest in, and celebrate the people who comprise UC. Through the development of our faculty, staff and students and transformative curricular, scholarly, and operational excellence we will pioneer new ways of thinking, creating, and doing. Bearcat Promise Bearcat Promise seeks to proactively assist students in creating a personalized path to achieving success. Through transformative curricular, scholarly, and operational excellence, we can better serve our students and prepare them to meet the needs of our rapidly changing world. Faculty Investment Greater investment in our faculty allows us to pursue and retrain high-caliber talent whose research and teaching positively impacts student success, our region and the world. By working together in creative and strategic ways we can fuel discovery and learning that leads to social transformation. Staff Enrichment It is vital we foster a workplace environment that enables staff to contribute to UC’s success. Through investments in the personal and professional growth of our employees, we can ensure employee fulfillment, an effective organization, and quality student experience. Urban Impact Platform The well-being of our institution is inherently linked with the physical, social, and economic health of our community and city. Cincinnati, and its business, civic, education, and cultural offerings, provides an opportunity to reach beyond our campuses to lead real-world learning, problem-based research and scholarship, and creative endeavors that address the multifaceted challenges affecting individuals and communities in our increasingly urbanized society. Only through collaborations and partnerships with external counterparts can we improve the human condition and advance the institution, city, state, and world. Urban Futures Urban Futures is focused on partnering to overcome barriers and apply innovative, scalable solutions to the challenges that urbanization poses to our region. UC researchers are working with external partners to accelerate economic growth and socio-economic mobility to create a better future for all. Urban Health Urban Health is leveraging and aligning the expertise of the university with the strengths of the community to address issues related to the health and well-being of our region. Through interdisciplinary approaches we are co-creating solutions and working together to develop an inclusive, diverse, and culturally competent healthcare workforce. CPS Strong CPS Strong establishes a model to engage and empower Cincinnati Public School students. By aligning programs and services to ensure readiness, create access, and foster success, we can achieve educational transformation and positively impact the future of our university and our city. Innovation Agenda We are dedicated to pushing limits and challenging minds by providing the space and opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to connect, imagine, and discover. The formation of new collaborations and partnerships linking UC’s talent in transformative ways—both internally and externally—provides a platform to advance and enrich experiences, ideas, and outcomes. 1819 Innovation Hub The 1819 Innovation Hub brings university talent, industry, and community together in a space free from barriers that hinder innovation—allowing ideas to be unleashed and curated. It’s a one-stop destination for the university, the city, and world beyond to co-locate, bring ideas to life, and solve today’s most complex problems. Co-op 2.0 UC invented cooperative e and expanding the reach of experiential leaning to all corners of the university. Moving forward, all UC students can be placed in learning experiences that are career-oriented, transcripted, and compensated to meet the needs of our global workforce. Inclusive Excellence Inclusive Excellence works to bring out the best in our students, faculty, and staff by valuing their unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. By leading with courage and compassion and welcoming and leveraging individual contributions we can collaborate, create, innovate, and compete in a global society.
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