Priorities and Initiatives

ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award - To create university-wide recruitment, retention and development that increase the number of women faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and enable them to further their careers.
Developing Online Learning-Centered Environments (DOLCE) – Assists faculty teams in redesigning high-enrollment and bottleneck courses for online or blended learning delivery in a manner that retains academic quality, efficient use of faculty time, and focus on learning-centeredness.
First Year Experience - Course Outlines, outcomes and assessment information for First Year Experience courses.
The GIS Literate Campus Initiative - Advancing GIS academic programs to provide instruction, research, and outreach to students, faculty, staff, and constituents around the world.
Kellogg Honors College – Provides an intellectually and socially stimulating environment for students of all majors to come together as a community of scholars.
Learning-Centered University – Supports learning for all members of the campus community by fostering an evidence-based culture of continuous improvement.
Service Learning - Provides students with structured opportunities to learn, develop, and reflect through active participation and thoughtfully-organized community involvement.
Stories of Successful Learning - Annual poster-conference in which the university community shares ideas about student learning.
Teacher-Scholar – Seeks to develop the integration of teaching and scholarship.
Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant (TQE/Teacher PREP) - Improving the preparation of teachers for the challenges of the region’s diverse 21st century classrooms.
U.R.-BRONCO – Seeks to increase participation of undergraduate students in research.
WASC Reaccreditation – Fostering a climate that will lead to the best possible understanding and knowledge of the entire WASC accreditation process and particularly Cal Poly Pomona’s efforts to achieve accreditation.