BATON ROUGE – As Louisiana’s public flagship producer of tomorrow’s business and industry leaders, the LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business has continuously sought ways to thrive during our nation’s most recent economic downturn. The college has implemented five-year strategic plans for some time now and recently revealed its latest Five-Year Strategic Plan for National Prominence.

“We will continue to move forward,” said E. J. Ourso College Dean Eli Jones. “Moving forward, it is obvious that the college, and all of LSU for that matter, will need to rely more heavily on private donations. To attract and retain world-class faculty and the state and country’s best students, we must adapt.”

The college’s strategic plan highlights four main goals:

• Increase research productivity in support of long-term economic development
• Increase the number and quality of graduate students and programs: enhance professional graduate degree programs
• Increase the quality of undergraduate students and programs: increase rigor and relevance of undergraduate degree programs
• Increase funding sources to support the aforementioned objectives: resource requirements

Performance indicators and strategies for each of the previously named goals are detailed in the strategic plan, which was developed with the input of the Dean’s Advisory Council, the Core Executive Committee and college institute directors.

“The strategic plan we have put together is a direct reflection of the resources that we have available to us in the business community,” Jones said. “We have the best of both worlds as far as real-world, business input and academia, and our initiatives directly support our objectives and the LSU Flagship 2020, which is the university’s strategic plan.”

To read the strategic plan in its entirety, click here.

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