Improve image and resources of the Library to better serve the academic, student, and community. Create an alliance between the university, industry, and community supported organizations, and institutionalize collaborations between these three parties. Local businesses are no longer the sole pillar of the community, the university shares the pillar with industry and community supported organizations. The alliance could work to increase the visibility of the university in the region and beyond. The provision of faculty apartments, new research facilities, and utilization of city expertise to grow in the university.
All great universities are more than an accumulation of professional schools.
All great universities have, as their foundation, a great college of arts and sciences- undergraduate and graduate. A great university needs a true research library. Greater inclusiveness and increased participation should be a goal. Globalization needs to occur where a higher percentage of students have overseas study opportunities, the addition of foreign languages is approved across the curriculum, more international students are attracted, and more joint international programs are created. Collaboration is important but is under-emphasized.