Annual Report 2023-2024

1. Improve information and communication to equip students, faculty and staff with the tools and information they need to be successful.
2. Streamline and optimize Office of the Registrar processes and services to ensure that students, staff, and faculty have resources available in a timely manner.
3. Create an organizational culture that attracts and retains excellent staff; develop effective organization structures and systems for the 21st Century University.
4. Create a clear path for students to efficiently reach their academic goals through academic success, persistence and degree completion.
5. Provide timely, accurate data to inform strategic decisions for students, faculty, and staff.
6. Enhance and safeguard institutional integrity to elevate the value and reputation of Oregon State University; increase expertise and confidence across the university.

The Office of the Registrar and Curriculum Management's Mission, Vision, Values and Goals is aligned with OSU’s Prosperity Widely Shared (PWS) strategic plan. Projects are evaluated based on their enhancements to the PWS actions and tactics. Action and Tactics within PWS that Office of the Registrar projects enhance include:

Launching a campaign for timely undergraduate degree completion

• Set and track academic unit targets for retention and graduation and reward success
• Aim to equalize rates of retention and graduation by race and ethnicity
• Substantially increase need-based scholarships
• Launch a signature new student onboarding experience, including reformed first-year advising
• Dedicated attention to transfer and online students
• Strengthen partnerships with other higher education institutions, including community colleges, to create smoother pathways into Oregon State’s academic programs
• Incentivize and support more undergraduate students to attend full-time
• Explore instating a block (flat) tuition rate model

Build faculty excellence

• All colleges will set goals for research and teaching excellence and innovation
• Launch a joint central and college-level faculty excellence hiring initiative to support targeted tenured/tenure-track hiring
• Launch a professional development campaign for course design, teaching and assessment
• Increase awards and recognition for distinguished teaching
• Expand efforts to increase the number of Oregon State faculty recognized by major scientific and scholarly societies

Significantly increase enrollment online and at OSU-Cascades

• Play a critical role in serving needs of those pursing degrees and building new skills over their careers
• Address state and national workforce requirements
• Expand online programs to offer educational opportunities to more students, remain competitive, and fuel investments in student success, faculty excellence and research
• Implement an integrated college and university-level strategy to more than double online-only enrollment
• Implement a college and university growth strategy for OSU-Cascades
• Implement a strategy for Corvallis campus enrollment
• Grow professional graduate program offerings