Goal 1: Enhance the Academic Experience of All Students

Goal 1:
Enhance the Academic Experience of All Students

The University will support innovation and success in teaching excellence, while maintaining and creating high-quality academic resources and services. High-impact academic experiences will be increased, and student expenses will be reduced by accelerating campus efforts toward low-cost, no-cost and open educational resources. The University also will expand the number of its doctoral programs and attain the Carnegie Classification Doctoral/Professional University designation.

Strategy 1.1

Deepen current and develop new opportunities to support innovation and success in teaching excellence.

WT’s Hwang, Simmons Named to Professorships in Education Department

Gift from Nancy, Kel Seliger Creates Distinguished Professorship at WT

Texas A&M’s VERO Campus Welcomes Anatomic Pathologist to Faculty

WT School Psychology Graduate Program Earns National Accreditation

Jeffreys Named WT’s First Ware University Distinguished Professor

WT Faculty Earn Professional Development Grants

WT Art Professor Appointed to New Position Named for Longtime Department Head

WT’s Bingham Named to Professorship Established to Honor AISD’s Loomis

WT Faculty Celebrate Promotion and Tenure

Strategy 1.2

Maintain and create high-quality academic resources and services.

WT Piloting Professional Certification Courses in Engler College of Business

WT Fall Graduate Numbers, President’s and Dean’s Lists Released

Strategy 1.3

Increase high impact academic experiences such as experiential learning, internships, student research, study abroad, and leadership programs.

WT Ranch Horse Team Wins Reserve Championship, Two Individual World Titles

WT Meat Judging Team Opens 2025 with First Victory at National Western Contest

WT Student PR Team Competing Nationally

WT Ranch Horse Team Nabs First National Championship

2025-26 Rogers LEAD WT Cohort Announced

Strategy 1.4

Reduce student expenses by accelerating campus efforts toward low cost, no cost, and open educational resources.

WT Students Among Those Chosen for $100,000 in Scholarships from Certified Angus Beef

38 WT Students Win Nearly $10K in Scholarships After Financial Literacy Workshops

WT Signs Agreement with Daniels Fund to Provide Full-Ride Scholarships

WT Opera Announces Endowed Fund for Productions, Graduate Assistants, More

Professorship, Scholarship Fund Established at WT in Honor of AISD’s Loomis

WT Social Work Student Wins Prestigious Scholarship

Strategy 1.5

Attain the Carnegie Classification Doctoral/Professional University designation (conferring 20 or more doctoral degrees annually) by expanding the number of doctoral programs.

WT Earns Carnegie Recognition as Regional Research University

The goals and strategies detailed in the University’s five-year strategic plan, The Pioneering Spirit: Pursuit of WT 125, aim to achieve the mission as laid out in the University’s long-range plan, WT 125: From the Panhandle to the World.

Goal 1: Enhance the Academic Experience of All Students