Strategic Guidelines

Leverage Our Culture as a Competitive Edge

TTUHSC’s culture sets us apart—it is a defining strength that draws people in, builds community and helps us thrive together. We foster an environment where people feel valued, supported and empowered to lead. At its core is our values-based approach, calling on every member of TTUHSC to be driven by purpose, guided by our values and accountable for upholding them in every action and decision.

Decisions will reinforce our commitment to:

Upholding a values-based culture: Ensuring that our values shape how we approach our work and everything we do.
Fostering a supportive learning environment: Fostering a highly supportive, learner-centered environment where learners feel known, mentored and prepared to succeed.
Prioritizing health and well-being: Cultivating a workplace where team members experience a culture of support, work-life balance, health and well-being, ensuring TTUHSC remains a destination for top talent.
Advancing growth and professional development: Embedding leadership training and career advancement opportunities into the professional, academic and clinical experience to support growth.
Strengthening interprofessional collaboration: Strengthening interprofessional collaboration among team members and learners, ensuring research, education and clinical practice are seamlessly integrated.

At TTUHSC, people are not secondary to performance;
they are essential to it.

Expand Access to Quality Care While Strengthening Our Communities

TTUHSC is committed to expanding health care access, educational opportunities and research impact in a way that reinforces our foundation. Our reach will grow when it enhances our ability to serve communities and those who depend on us most.

Access to quality care will be strengthened through:

Prioritizing our communities: Initiatives will first focus on serving our established communities and rural areas that rely on us for education, health care and workforce development, ensuring they are not diminished as we pursue broader efforts.
Advancing research that benefits our communities: Research investments will prioritize rigorous training in the scientific method and discoveries that translate into real-world solutions, strengthening local health care capacity, improving public health and addressing disparities in rural areas and underserved populations.
Keeping talent in Texas: Access to quality care will be strengthened through efforts to recruit and retain learners and team members committed to serving Texas communities, and by developing pathways that encourage graduates to remain in the state where they are most needed.
Expanding with purpose: Decisions to grow and extend our reach will be guided by the ability to improve outcomes for the communities we serve, with a continued focus on rural areas and underserved populations.

When we grow, it is to expand access to quality care.

Deliver High-Value Education While Minimizing Barriers

TTUHSC provides a high-quality education that gives graduates a competitive edge in their fields. Through academic excellence, hands-on training and career readiness, learners gain the skills and experience to make a meaningful impact in health care while receiving extraordinary value for their investment in education.

Value will be reinforced through:

Removing barriers to access and success: Proactively identifying and addressing financial, geographic, academic and other barriers that may limit a learner’s ability to access and succeed in a top-tier education.
Strengthening academic excellence: Strengthening TTUHSC’s programs by exceeding standards to achieve national recognition and produce top-tier graduates who are known to be prepared to lead in their fields.
Integrating real-world learning and innovation: Embedding research-driven advancements, evidence-based practices and emerging health care technologies into education, simulations and digital training so learners contribute to and experience the future of health firsthand.
Maximizing career readiness and training: Maximizing hands-on clinical training opportunities, including experiences in rural areas, work with underserved populations and interprofessional education that prepares learners for team-based care.

Our graduates are not just prepared, they stand apart.

Drive Research and Innovation That Elevates Health Care and Advances Knowledge

TTUHSC prioritizes research that expands knowledge, drives innovation and translates discoveries into real-world health solutions. By bridging basic, translational, applied and population health research, we ensure breakthroughs, improve patient care, advance health outcomes and drive technology transfer and commercialization—especially for the populations we serve.

Research will be strengthened through:

Advancing alignment: Prioritizing work that advances health care access, rural and underserved health solutions and research-driven approaches to improving patient outcomes.
Expanding basic, applied, translational and population health research: Ensuring discoveries move beyond journals into real-world solutions, advance clinical innovation and improve public health, particularly in rural areas and among underserved populations.
Fostering interprofessional collaboration: Strengthening research that brings together different disciplines to tackle our complex health challenges, drive technology transfer and translate discoveries into real-world applications.
Investing in research capacity: Supporting team members in areas that align with our mission and strategic impact and strengthening the resources needed for impactful discovery.

Our research drives better outcomes because it starts with purpose.

Optimize Capacity and Processes to Strengthen Institutional Excellence

TTUHSC will optimize processes, infrastructure and technology to improve efficiency, sustainability and long-term impact across all locations. This means prioritizing efficiency, collaboration and sustainability to maximize impact.

Investment priorities include:

Ensuring sustainable funding and strategic resource allocation: Prioritizing financially viable solutions that directly support TTUHSC’s strategy and initiatives, sustainable growth and infrastructure improvements.
Improving operational efficiency and effectiveness: Streamlining processes, leveraging technology and optimizing resource allocation to enhance effectiveness and strengthen our strategic position.
Modernizing facilities and technology: Upgrading essential infrastructure and adopting digital solutions to support education, research and health care delivery.
Enhancing collaborative and interprofessional environments: Designing systems and spaces that support interprofessional education, research and seamless clinical integration across our locations.

We strengthen impact by making every resource count.

Strengthen TTUHSC’s Strategic Positioning and Influence

TTUHSC will expand its external influence to strengthen workforce development, expand access to quality care and enhance the impact and value of a TTUHSC education, driven by a supportive culture that remains strongly committed to rural areas and underserved populations. Influence is not about visibility alone—it is about improving and being recognized for what we do best.

Priority focus includes:

Advocating for policies and funding: Advocating for policies and funding that expand workforce development and ensure access to quality care, reinforcing TTUHSC’s commitment to creating a healthier future for the communities we serve.
Expanding relationships and strategic alliances: Building relationships and strategic alliances that expand TTUHSC’s impact in rural areas and among underserved populations.
Increasing external funding: Expanding TTUHSC’s external funding to support strategic priorities, workforce development and long-term sustainability.
Elevating TTUHSC’s brand and visibility: Strengthening TTUHSC’s brand and national visibility through targeted marketing, community engagement and a unified story highlighting our distinctive strengths that reinforce our impact and leadership in health sciences education, research and workforce development.

We strengthen our influence by leading with clarity and purpose.

Strategy Guidelines