WEST LAFAYETTE Ind.
Purdue University will focus on increasing retention and graduation rates under a strategic plan taking shape under new President France Cordova.
Cordova also will form work groups of students, faculty, staff and community members to advise steps on student experience, campus design, interdisciplinary research, and quality of life for faculty and staff.
Cordova expects the strategic plan to be presented to the trustees by May.
“We need a stronger focus on student success,” she told school trustees Friday.
She also named a more research funding as one of the plan’s top goals.
“Our aspiration is for Purdue to be a top-rank global research institution,” she said.
