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Excerpts Include: Mission Statement: extend faculty expertise and other resources beyond the physical limits of the campuses to meet learning needs of the State, region, and national and international audiences. Culture: Collaboration and coordination across the Regent enterprise and with other institutions and organizations, both public and private, to meet the needs of Iowans. Goals: Plan and cooperate in the delivery of distance education programs among the Regent Universities and other universities evidencing quality in similar programs. Strategic Initiatives: Explore strategic opportunities for partnership among the Iowa Regent Institutions, their regional and national affiliate groups for: 2. Enriched curricula to meet opportunities, e.g., growing international markets, especially where a single institution does not have adequate resources to undertake the cost/risk. 3. A Web-based marketing and transaction system that permits students to enroll, pay for, and authorize access to distance education courses offered by all Regent Universities and their peer group institutions. Exploring opportunities to collectively and/or individually to: Improve market responsiveness through development of processes for market analysis, selection of product and promotion to targeted markets.

Priorities Education: To prepare our graduates to become leaders in a profession dominated by globalization, our students will have increasing opportunities for international experiences. Academic opportunities involving biology will be provided in all majors and programs, undergraduate and graduate, in recognition of the vital role played by biological science and technology in, for example, health care, the food supply, industrial processing, energy development, and environmental management. Priorities: Infrastructure We will employ the most advanced collaborative information technologies and business practices to best position ourselves to take advantage of new opportunities and to increase our operational efficiency.

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