Opportunity Agenda
The K-State Opportunity Agenda
K-State has a long history of excellence and leadership in many areas of scholarly work. However, as with most higher education institutions, our successes often occur in areas of excellence and expertise at the university.
Today, we have both an opportunity and an imperative to bring our resources and expertise together in a way that respects our unique structure while challenging historical norms.
This starts by continuing to elevate disciplinary development and excellence, and by leveraging these single-discipline strengths toward interdisciplinary areas of focus that both build upon our strengths across the institution and lean into problems K-State is positioned to help solve on a grand scale. These core areas of opportunity are designed to be inherently inclusive so that everyone across our institution can see themselves reflected in them in teaching, research, Extension and engagement. They underpin and cut across all aspects of our strategic plan for achieving our imperatives, accomplishing our goals and advancing our priorities.
As a land-grant university that also maintains a Carnegie R1 research classification for doctoral universities with very high research activity and a Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement classification, we have a unique opportunity to further differentiate our teaching and research by integrating our K-State Extension network deep within these areas of focus. Through Extension, we will leverage our statewide network to offer clear pathways and community-based partnerships both for experimentation and addressing real and pressing challenges across the state, honing best practices locally and regionally that can be scaled for global impact.
Our focus areas