Tech in the Year 2020
Louisiana Tech will become one of America's top public research universities with highly acclaimed and award-winning faculty who value and contribute to the rich learning environment.
- Providing an educational experience for all students that integrates the best in experiential learning from the classroom to the laboratory to the living environment to the community and beyond.
- Featuring extensive interdisciplinary courses and curricula that provide unique learning opportunities and prepare all graduates to succeed in the Flat World.
Operating an Honors College that provides students from diverse backgrounds with a highly interactive personalized learning environment that is comparable to the best of the Ivy League schools.
- Implementing strong doctoral programs that support interdisciplinary and disciplinary research in all colleges focused in areas of research strength.
- Offering graduate programs that not only provide students with high quality educational and research experiences, but that also prepare graduates to serve their organizations and communities as leaders.
- Featuring a laboratory school expanded through 12 grades - a place where students are exposed to cutting-edge learning approaches, where teachers from schools in Lincoln Parish and beyond develop new skills, and where the curricula that shape Louisiana's future PK-12 education programs are developed and piloted.
- Incorporating a Research Park that provides opportunities for faculty, students, graduates, and others to work with high-growth and high-wage technology businesses, and that serves as a magnet for the recruitment and retention of bright citizens for North Louisiana.
- Distinguishing its storied athletics program that is writing new chapters of success as an athletic champion that competes with integrity.
- Connecting seamlessly to information, resources, decision-making tools, people, communities…anyone, anywhere, anytime.
- Managing well-established service learning programs across all colleges that allow students to work together and use their newfound knowledge and skills in ways that create a better world for all humanity.
- Launching more pioneering majors (such as nanosystems engineering) that prepare undergraduate and graduate students to enter a global job market.
- Teaching and living the sustainable practices that will ensure future generations won’t be burdened by toxic waste, reduced energy supplies, or lack of water.
- Connecting the campus to downtown Ruston via a green space with reflecting pond that is anchored by Green villages and a park system with a universal wireless connection in Ruston’s historic cyber downtown.
