Nancy Al-Dahwa

The University of Houston's strategic plan, titled 'Together, We Rise. Together, We Soar.', outlines a seven-year strategy to transform its core initiatives with the overarching vision of becoming a Top 50 Public University. Key strategic goals include ensuring student success through a top-tier educational experience, building a nationally competitive research powerhouse, serving as an exemplar for community engagement through social responsibility, developing a nationally relevant athletics program, and establishing a sustainable funding base to support these ambitious goals.

The University of Houston Human Resources' strategic plan for 2023-2027 outlines a roadmap to become a strategic partner and employer of choice. It focuses on twelve key goals, including recruiting, retaining, and developing a diverse workforce, enhancing leadership performance, providing outstanding customer service, ensuring compliance, and implementing strategic succession planning. The plan also emphasizes attracting qualified applicants, delivering executive leadership development, administering competitive total rewards, optimizing policies and procedures, promoting employee wellness and retention, leveraging data for decision-making, and fostering community engagement. The overarching aim is to support institutional excellence and contribute to the University's mission.

The Department of Energy (DOE) Implementation Plan focuses on ensuring America's security and prosperity by addressing energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions. It aims to enhance the DOE's alignment with the tenets of Gold Standard Science, emphasizing reproducibility, transparency, communication of error and uncertainty, collaboration, skepticism, falsifiability of hypotheses, and unbiased peer review. The plan includes actions to improve data sharing, peer-review processes, and the management of scientific activities, while also addressing potential challenges such as federal code constraints, national security considerations, and the need for standardized metrics and training.

The NIH Implementation Plan focuses on reinforcing gold standard science through reproducibility, transparency, communication of error and uncertainty, collaboration, skepticism, falsifiability, unbiased peer review, and acceptance of negative results. It outlines current efforts and planned initiatives to enhance the quality, objectivity, and integrity of biomedical research, ensuring public accountability and promoting ethical practices across the research lifecycle.

The University of Houston's Division of Student Affairs Strategic Impact Report for 2024 highlights progress in student success, well-being, and engagement through innovative programs, strategic partnerships, and data-driven initiatives. It emphasizes the division's role in the university's aim to become a Top 50 public university. The report outlines key accomplishments, challenges, and strategic priorities for the upcoming year, focusing on enhancing retention and graduation rates, promoting social mobility, increasing alumni support, building competitive funding, and fostering engagement and belonging.