Infrastructure and Funding

  • Advocate for state and federal operating and capital funds.

  • Pursue gifts to support naming of new academic schools and centers and funding to enhance capital improvement projects.

  • Begin first phase of preparation for next comprehensive campaign. 

  • Engage in succession planning for Foundation Board of Trustees and internal advancement staff.

  • Advance projects included in the facilities master plan, including the braider facility and Building #4 infill at the Roy Blunt Jordan Valley Innovation Center, Cheek Hall, Darr Agricultural Center Small Animal Education Center and Agriculture Innovation Hub, Kampeter Hall, Kemper Hall, and Roy Blunt Hall.

  • Continue to strengthen efforts to recruit and retain faculty and staff. Goals will be finalized with the Enterprise Risk Management – Personnel Subcommittee in August.

  • Prioritize employee compensation in the university budgeting process.

  • Manage university finances to further the university’s mission and achieve the objectives established by the Board of Governors. Examples include evaluating bonding capacity for the auxiliary system and maintaining a balanced budget.

  • Successfully bid Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) and Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM) contracts.

  • Streamline processes by implementing dynamic forms to replace paper personnel action forms and approval processes.

  • Mitigate risk of internet outage and cybersecurity events by providing a disaster recovery instance to ensure business continuity by building a geographically separate ERP cloud environment and adding a redundant internet connection.

  • Improve data centers, including Blair Shannon Hall, Cheek Hall, and West Plains.

  • Monitor the impact and influence of artificial intelligence as it relates to academic and universityoperations, and update policies and operations to reflect the support for strategic and ethical usage of AI. (An output on AI specific to academic affairs also appears in the CAP.)

  • Enhance security by upgrading/expanding the door access system; updating identity and access management policies, processes, and systems; and upgrading/replacing video surveillance cameras.

  • Strengthen audit capabilities by implementing audit management and risk management systems, beginning implementation of analytics and continuous monitoring, and developing hotline services.