Strategies:

• High Schools – Offer dual credit courses through onramps program.
• Attract students to gateway classes like PSS 1411 to increase transfer/internal students.
• Use available tools to increase visibility on social media.
• Work with resource centers within TTU.
• Promote undergrad research experiences.
• Offer competitive graduate student funding for high quality graduate students.
• Increase recruiting efforts towards regional students.
• Increase overall scholarship funds.
• Balance scholarship expenditures to yearly scholarship revenues.
• Support all qualified scholarship applicants.

Strategies:

• Increase accessibility for distance education students (ex. using digital tools, eLearning, and financial assistance).
• Continue to increase number of distance education courses/sections offered.
• Continue partnerships with other universities (e.g., AG*IDEA) in providing distance-based courses and degrees.
• Increase PSS course offerings taught at the TTU Regional Teaching Site in Fredericksburg.

Strategies:

• Conduct comprehensive curriculum reviews to assess the capacity of current programs and needs for change.
• Incorporate input from the PSS Advisory Committee in evaluation of curricula and programs.

Strategies:

• Increase research, internship, study abroad opportunities for students.
• Provide special problem courses and/or internship opportunities for undergraduate students involved in research.
• Provide competitive externally funded assistantships, scholarships, and fellowships for all qualified graduate students.

Strategies:

• Identify a prioritized list of areas of research excellence in PSS.
• Provide seed funding to promote collaborative research in the identified areas of excellence.
• Develop a coordinated plan and priority list (i.e. Core or shared use facilities) or update existing infrastructure.
• Support the acquisition of state-of-the-art technology and/or equipment for research.

Strategies:

• Promote and support multidisciplinary research beyond the PSS department.
• Provide incentives in the form of partial graduate student salaries and other financial support to faculty who participate in large multidisciplinary research projects and competitive grant funding.
• Facilitate efforts to secure more research funding from international funding agencies, corporations, and foundations.
• Facilitate opportunities for faculty to meet and interact with each other, prospective collaborators within Texas Tech, and potential collaborators outside Texas Tech.

Strategies:

• Identify priorities for economic development and entrepreneurial opportunities with input from the PSS advisory committee and industry groups.
• Facilitate participation in workshops such as NSF I-Corps, iHub, etc.