Mission Statement
The Department of Natural Resources Management discovers relevant solutions to complex natural resource challenges through teaching, research, and engagement.
Vision Statement
The Department of Natural Resources Management will lead discovery and delivery of knowledge to anticipate and address the complex natural resource challenges of a changing world.
Our Core Values
Synergizing our strengths with an ethical obligation
- Enhance innovation and discovery through teamwork
- Foster a supportive environment to create and share ideas
- Develop creative and innovative solutions to complex problems
- Build a community of learners and problem solvers
- Seek teammates who will contribute to our work in both additive and synergistic ways
Appreciate the inherent value of nature and its sustainable use and management
- Recognize that humans are a part of ecosystems with potential for both positive and negative impacts, and lead by example to maximize the positive
- Promote the concept that genetic diversity benefits populations; species diversity benefits communities; human diversity benefits teams
- We share a sense of responsibility to current and future generations to be good stewards of the biosphere
Seek to understand
- Seek opportunities to learn and grow
- Ask challenging questions about natural resources ecology and management that require creative and complex solutions
- Teach in dynamic and exciting ways to foster curiosity in our students
- Bear and foster the courage to ask and act
Promote a community that values respect and belonging
- Dedicate time to others
- Advocate for the needs of people and all living organisms
- Lead with humility, respect, and forgiveness
- Provide opportunities and tools for positive change and success
Do what you say you will do
- Accountability to self and others
- Foster a culture of honesty and transparency in all behaviors and actions
- Do what is right, even when no one is watching
- Hold ourselves to high standards
Department of Natural Resources Management
2025-2030 Strategic Priorities
[1] Build a Departmental Identity
[2] Increase Scholarship & Discovery
[3] Enhance Student Achievement
[5] Improve & Increase Infrastructure & Facilities
Strategic Goal #1 Build a Departmental Identity
Build a departmental identity by becoming a leading institution in Natural Resources Management recognized for its expertise in addressing emerging and complex environmental challenges
- Produce a skilled workforce that will serve as ambassadors of our program
- Disseminate information through outreach and engagement with the public
- Provide workshops and seminars to professional stakeholders in multiple disciplines
- Implement collaborative projects across disciplines
- Collaborate on grant proposals that incorporate multiple disciplines
- Provide tangible improvements to management actions and ecosystems
- Increase number of projects with stakeholder involvement
- Develop cross-disciplinary and cross-institution collaborations
- Implement research and educational projects and activities that align with strategic goals of the Davis College and TTU
- Take a leadership role in college level and university level planning
Strategic Goal #2 Increase Scholarship & Discovery
Promote a departmental ethic of funding and dissemination of discovery
- Submit a greater number of proposals
- Diversify the funding portfolio of state grants, federal grants and private gifts
- Seek more federal and high-dollar funding
- Publish more in high-impact and well-read journals to maximize the breadth and size of our audience
- Increase the number of citations of our work
- Present more frequently at national and international conferences
- Increase the number of and strengthen partnerships
- Increase faculty and student involvement in engaged scholarship
- Increase number of citations in legal, policy, and regulatory outlets
- Increase number of external honorary awards
- Increase number of invited presentations and publications
- Increase the number of elected and other professional leadership positions
Strategic Goal #3 Enhance Student Achievement
Provide an educational and experiential environment that attracts high achieving students and promotes academic and career success
- Recruit undergraduates with higher (over levels in Fall 2025) average high school GPA’s
- Recruit graduates with higher (over levels in Fall 2025) GRE/undergrad GPA/improved reference evaluations
- Increase (over levels in Fall 2025) number and amount of recruitment scholarships
- Increase (over levels in Fall 2025) professional development opportunities
- Develop a NRM-specific course evaluation and feedback process
- Improve (over levels in Fall 2025) student evaluation scores
- Decrease (under levels in Fall 2025) student-to-faculty ratios
- Increase (over levels in Fall 2025) professional development opportunities
- Increase (over levels in Fall 2025) average number of students with internship experience
- Increase (over levels in Fall 2025) average number of students with study abroad experience
- Increase (over levels in Fall 2025) % of graduates working in their discipline or in graduate school within 6 months of graduation
- Improve (over levels in Fall 2025) average employer satisfaction scores
Strategic Goal #4 Increase Capacity
Attract and invest in top talent and foster professional growth in faculty and staff
- Fill 3 empty positions
- Add new lines with endowments or other resources
- Align start-up packages with peer institutions
- Retain early career faculty
- Formalize mentorship for department faculty and staff
- Provide ample recognition of good work
- Designate an annual budget for professional development that is spent every year
- Promote department specific opportunities that are on or off campus
- Maintain high wellness levels (collect data via survey)
- Provide and promote wellness activities
- Foster more interactive culture
- Designate a budget for wellness that is spent every year
Strategic Goal #5 Improve & Increase Infrastructure & Facilities
Upgrade and achieve 21st Century facilities and assets for current and future teaching, research, and engagement
- Renovate and modernize research labs
- Build and maintain income for upgrades and maintenance
- Upgrade technology and electronic resources within laboratories, classrooms, and computing spaces
- Upgrade HVAC to maintain Internal environment stability with weather changes
- Renovate spaces to teach larger classes
- Increase office and common space for faculty, staff, and students
- Increase the use of labs, classrooms, field resources and other assets
- Produce publications from demonstration days
- Enhance endowments for growth and maintenance of facilities
- Increase use and support of our fleet and spaces
- Collect visitation data at the Rangeland by requiring all persons who come in to sign in/out and state their purpose for visiting
Department of Natural Resources Management
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Address
Goddard Building, Texas Tech University, Box 42125, Lubbock TX 79409 -
Phone
806.742.2841 -
Email
nrm@ttu.edu