Davis Dairy Plant: built with industry and dairy farmer support, it is a one of a kind facility for innovations in dairy processing research and teaching
- Infuse core values throughout the university
- Embrace a culture of responsibility and accountability to our university.
- Promote faculty, staff and student leadership across campus.
- 40% of students will have an ACT of 25 or more.
- 10% of undergraduate students will be enrolled in the Honors College.
- Develop joint degree programs with dairy and food-related international institutions.
- Develop a dairy and/or food engineering option in collaboration with the College of Engineering, including a dairy specific engineering course.
- Develop a collaboration with the Management program in the Economics Department.
- Initiate online courses in dairy and food science.
- Grow and sustain financial resources aligned with the mission of the department and 成人视频
- Increase undergraduate student enrollment through the initiation of a targeted recruitment committee.
- Recruit undergraduate students from at least eight states other than South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska.
- Increase scholarship opportunities for students in dairy science.
- Increase external grants, contracts and gifts.
- Continue existing endowed chair and initiate others.
- Maintain dairy plant revenues through continued sales of products and services to industry.
- Investigate potential for synergistic linkages with other universities and programs (i.e. synergy between Culinology programs at Southwest Minnesota State and Mitchell Technical Institute and the Food Science Curriculum).
- Structure department resources to achieve strategic priorities
- Create a culture that encourages and supports collaboration, creativity and bold ideas.
- Implement systems that incorporate efficiencies and continuous improvement.
- Expand capabilities for processing dairy-based ingredients within the Davis Dairy Plant.
- Develop ingredients from materials currently considered dairy by-products to improve functionality of new and existing dairy-based food products.
Goals and Strategies
- Achieve Excellence Through Transformative Education
- Cultivate and Strengthen Community Engagement
- Foster Innovation and Increase Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA)
- Be a Growing, High-Performing and Healthy Department