SONHI Strategic Plan

Hope. Renewal. Transformation.

Theme 1: Focus on engaged learning and experiential education grounded in innovation, design thinking, and interprofessional collaboration. 

University of Portland SONHI is committed to offering excellent, relevant academic programs that prepare students for lives of meaning and purpose and ethical professional practice.

Theme 2: Enhance the University of Portland SONHI Community by fostering a vibrant, welcoming community in which all participants feel a sense of belonging.

Through a commitment to fostering faith, formation, and promoting holistic community health, the SONHI will grow and enhance the University of Portland community.

Theme 3: The SONHI will strengthen its efforts to champion and prioritize initiatives in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice (DEIJ), and access.

University of Portland SONHI is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, because this work is critical to both its mission and its belief in human dignity in all people.

Theme 4: Develop new health care programs that align with evolving industry needs, provide new opportunities for students, and improve health outcomes.

The University of Portland SONHI is committed to sustainable enrollment management that directly impacts the health and wellness of those students will serve in their professional careers and the communities to which they will contribute as global citizens.

Theme 5: Enhance and expand our human, physical, and financial resources.

University of Portland SONHI is committed to optimizing the use of its resources to ensure institutional effectiveness and promote faculty, staff, and student well-being and retention.

Theme 6: Expand and communicate the ways in which SONHI students, faculty, staff, and alumni make a meaningful impact on the world.

The University of Portland is committed to the belief that, through education, research, and service, its students, staff, faculty, and alumni can serve as a force for good locally, nationally, and globally.