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OU President Joe Harroz, flanked by university regents Michael Cawley and Frank Keating, discusses university business during a May 27, 2021 Board of Regents meeting.Emma Keith / The Transcript
After a year of pivoting its priorities to COVID-19 response, the University of Oklahomaâs leadership was able focus Thursday on a number of initiatives that will advance OUâs long term goals and vision.
The universityâs board approved a strategic plan-heavy agenda during its Thursday meeting. The plan, though never released to the public in its entirety, focuses heavily on making OU âa top-tier research university,â and outlines academic and cultural goals for OU over the years and decades ahead.
The OU Board of Regents approved changes to its general education requirements, appointed a new chairman and saw changes to university health departments Thursday afternoon as recently-appointed regent Rick Nagel
The OU Board of Regents will consider increasing residential housing prices, formalizing changes in general education requirements to include a First-Year Experience diversity class and appointing new university leadership during
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The Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost announced the appointment of Stacy Reeder as dean of the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, pending final approval from the OU Board of Regents.Â
According to a Friday morning email from interim Provost and Senior Vice President Jill Irvine, Reeder has served as a faculty member and administrator in the College of Education for the past 16 years. Sheâs served as the collegeâs interim dean since February 2020, after being named acting dean in September 2019.Â
Sheâs also previously served as the chair of the Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum, according to the email. She currently holds the position of professor in that department, teaching graduate and undergraduate mathematics education courses.