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DAVIS COLLEGE
2025-2030 Strategic Plan


"We are driven by a passion to serve the remarkable students, alumni, and stakeholders who grow our food and fiber, improve our natural resources, design our landscapes, and call West Texas home."

- Clint Krehbiel, Davis College Dean

Our Vision

Davis College will empower, elevate and inspire students, faculty, staff, alumni, and stakeholders to solve grand challenges for agriculture, natural resources, and landscapes through discovery, innovation, communication, and the fearless West Texas spirit.

Our Mission

Davis College develops ethical, engaged global leaders and solves grand problems through transformational teaching, research and engagement with a wide array of stakeholders to enhance agriculture and rural vitality, manage and conserve our natural resources and landscapes, and improve quality of life for West Texans and beyond.

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DAVIS COLLEGE

Our Core Values

[Value People]  All relationships are open, honest, and collaborative

  • Promote an environment of unity, teamwork and belonging
  • Seek and welcome different ideas and perspectives
  • Respect individual experiences, contributions and differences
  • Foster connections with students, faculty and staff
  • Nurture connections with alumni and community

[Commit to Excellence]  Excel in the presence of challenges

  • Anticipate and capitalize on new opportunities
  • Rise to challenges with courage and resolve
  • Achieve goals with passion and perseverance
  • Model institutional and personal ethics and integrity
  • Exceed expectations

[Elevate Others]  Lift people to greater growth, knowledge, and achievement

  • Foster high-impact learning experiences
  • Create career and life-ready graduates
  • Challenge students, staff and faculty to greater achievement
  • Develop leaders who value the excellence of their teams
  • Encourage life-long learning and career advancement

[Foster Discovery]  Find solutions to regional challenges with global implications

  • Secure public and private support for scholarly endeavors
  • Conduct and disseminate relevant research and engaged scholarship
  • Seed and recognize multi-disciplinary activities
  • Drive and support commercialization of innovations
  • Equip the next generation of scholars and entrepreneurs

[STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1]

Educate and Empower a Dynamic Student Body

  1. Recruit high-achieving students and increase the scope of recruiting
  2. Maintain and expand high-impact, experiential learning
  3. Build on excellence in teaching
  4. Expand the Davis College offerings and participation in online and distance education (OLDE)
  5. Develop “career highways” for our students and alumni
  6. Focus on student success and wellness

How we're educating & empowering students

[STRATEGIC PRIORITY 2]

Develop, Catalyze, and Promote Innovative Research & Creative Activities

  1. Increase research expenditures through federal, state, private, and foundation sources of funding
  2. Increase the amount and quality of research output through publications, presentations, creative works, and intellectual property production
  3. Enhance the number of graduate students as well as the quality of the graduate student experience
  4. Promote innovation and commercialization of research output from Davis College
  5. Recruit, retain, and develop excellent faculty

How we're developing researchers & creators

[STRATEGIC PRIORITY 3]

Transform Lives & Communities through Outreach & Engagement

  1. Establish dynamic, community-centered outreach and engagement initiatives that connect Davis College with rural and urban audiences
  2. Foster community partnerships that integrate teaching, research, and student involvement to address our strategic priority areas
  3. Promote the community impact of Davis College by rewarding outreach and engagement through promotion and tenure protocols and faculty, student, and staff awards
  4. Increase and enhance community engaged teaching opportunities

How we're connecting with our community

Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources

  • Address

    P.O. Box 42123, Lubbock, Texas 79409-2123, Dean’s Office Location: Goddard Building, Room 108

  • Phone

    (806)742-2808
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