Duties & Responsibilities

• Creating and analyzing an inventory of key University assets and strengths across relevant colleges, institutes, extension, and programs to identify core capabilities, gaps, opportunities and factors which differentiate the University from its peers and thus provide an opportunity for substantial leadership.
• Working with deans, directors, and heads to identify new areas for interdisciplinary collaboration and novel education and training programs and paradigms and the human and other assets needed to pursue them.
• Suggesting strategies for engaging external stakeholders and partners, particularly with regard to underserved and underrepresented communities
• Creating a strategic vision to advance associated economic development through technology commercialization, business, innovation, and policy.