1. - Strategic Priorities - Emerging Directions and Actions
WORKING DRAFT
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2. Stewarding Our Resources Transforming Education
Mission
Values
Vision
Promoting Our Health
Stewarding Our Resources
Transforming Education
Building Our Digital Future
Valuing and Exploring Our Cultures
“NEW THEME” TBD
Foundational Principles
Supporting Strategies
Guiding Principles for Resource Allocation

3. Working Groups for Strategic Priorities
Purposes
Short to medium-term
* Creating a one-page statement (what a theme means, what * Penn State aspires to, metrics, targets, timelines…)
* Building input to/framework for the PSU plan
Short to long-term
* Moving the conversation forward
* Promoting connections and collaborations across departments, colleges, campuses.
* Identifying and engaging faculty & staff, trustees, donors.

4. Promoting Our Health Nutrition
Behaviors (exercise, lifestyle, interventions…)
Disease (prevention , infectious disease…)
Health care systems
Special populations (youth, aging, urban, rural…)
Environmental health
Personalized medicine
Environmental insults (climate, pollution, antibiotic resistance…)
Biodata and informatics
The human system (bio, cognitive, affective, social, neural, genetic….)
Science/engineering/materials/genomics/computing/medicine…

5. Stewarding Our Resources
Water
Energy (“smart energy”, natural gas, coal, renewable, materials…)
Land use
Ecology
Food
Global connections
Sustainability
Cyberscience
Organizational, political, and social sciences (communication, behaviors, decision-making….)

6. Transforming Education
Innovation in teaching & learning
STEM leadership: education and outreach
Understanding the relationship of new technologies to learning
Student engagement
Flipping the classroom
General education
Access & affordability
Extending education (campuses, online, VLN)
K-16 and beyond
Global reach
Assisting special-needs and other unique (adults, veterans…) populations

7. Building Our Digital Future
Mobile computing
Big data & big simulations
Quantitative social sciences
Analytics
Risk and privacy
Digitization of libraries (and other sources)
Natural sciences
Impacts on education
Imaging
Computation and data science
“The Internet of things”
Discovery and access
Digital humanities
Knowledge creation

8. Valuing and Exploring Our Cultures
Equity, honor & integrity, moral literacy, ethics (including research ethics)
Civic engagement
Understanding democracy
Arts and humanities
Social systems
Communication and media
Remediating disparities (health, education, community resources, global society…)
Language
“Cultures of making” (design, arts, architecture…)
Community based research & practices (local, national, global…)
Crossing disciplinary and professional communities (materials, life sciences, manufacturing, physical & life sciences, social sciences, business & industry…)