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Corresponding actions for Goal 2.A.1:

• Create clear entry points, partnership resources and guidance that help external partners identify opportunities, connect with the right people and develop effective collaborations with the UW.
• Create and maintain an accessible inventory of external partnerships and areas of internal expertise across the institution.
• Develop shared partnership tools, resources, agreement templates and unit-facing guidance for use across the UW.
• Establish coordination mechanisms that help units to identify, strengthen and build on existing relationships and expertise across the UW.

Corresponding actions for Goal 2.A.2:

• Designate dedicated leadership and institutional responsibility for advancing strategic partnerships across the University.
• Identify priority areas where coordinated institutional engagement with community, industry, governmental and philanthropic partners can produce the greatest impact.
• Create or augment governance structures that help the UW elevate partnership opportunities while accommodating different partnership types, scales and levels of complexity.
• Engage University leadership early in shaping partnership strategy and direction before formal negotiations and agreement development begin.
• Align institutional resources and support functions with partnership priorities to facilitate partnership formation and growth.

Corresponding actions for Goal 2.A.3:

• Identify and address institutional policies, processes and practices that unnecessarily delay or discourage partnership development, interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement across schools, colleges and units.
• Streamline intellectual property, contracting and partnership administration processes to support timely and effective collaboration.
• Incorporate partnership development, cross-unit collaboration and innovation into institutional recognition, communications and professional expectations.

Corresponding actions for Goal 2.A.4:

• Maintain and expand community partnerships grounded in mutual benefit, mutual respect, shared priorities and long-term relationship building.
• Provide faculty, staff and students with training, tools and support for effective and reciprocal community engagement, partnership development and co-design.
• Create and maintain mechanisms for community partners to help shape partnership priorities, approaches, implementation strategies and measures of success from the outset.
• Develop and implement a shared framework for assessing community partnerships that reflects shared value, trust, community benefit and institutional outcomes where relevant.
• Strengthen government-to-government relationships with tribal nations through sustained engagement, shared planning and collaboration that advances tribal priorities and community well-being.

Corresponding actions for Goal 2.A.5:

• Identify, evaluate, improve and scale successful partnership models that can be adapted across the UW.
• Develop and sustain strategic partnerships with key industry, philanthropic and international partners.
• Recognize partnership development, community engagement and collaborative scholarship through communications, awards, promotion, tenure and career advancement processes.

Corresponding actions for Goal 2.B.1:

• Bring together faculty, staff, students, partners and communities to collaboratively identify priority research opportunities where the UW can make a distinctive contribution.
• Periodically assess emerging opportunities and existing areas of research excellence to prioritize where the UW is best positioned to lead and expand our impact.
• Align research priorities with major societal challenges that match the UW’s expertise, assets, partnerships and regional advantage.
• Engage community, industry, governmental and philanthropic partners early to build support, momentum and broader community participation and advocacy around priority research areas.
• Prioritize strategic investments in people, technologies, programs and specialized capabilities that reinforce the UW’s unique and hard-to-replicate strengths and accelerate emerging opportunities where the UW is uniquely positioned to lead.
• Communicate and promote the UW’s unique assets and areas of excellence to inform future prioritization, resource allocation, talent recruitment and collaboration opportunities.

Corresponding actions for Goal 2.B.2:

• Support ongoing education, training and professional development that supports researchers to effectively adopt and apply emerging technologies in their work.
• Build on UW expertise and regional strengths to advance the research, evaluation and practical application of emerging technologies.
• Seed interdisciplinary research collaborations in emerging technologies with the potential to evolve into nationally or globally recognized areas of excellence.

Corresponding actions for Goal 2.B.3:

• Recruit, develop, retain and connect faculty, staff, students, postdoctoral scholars, entrepreneurs, investors and strategic partners who can advance high-priority research and translation.
• Strengthen mission-specific translational and commercialization capabilities needed to advance research toward implementation and adoption.
• Strengthen relationships with community, industry, government, non-profits and philanthropic partners to help move promising research toward practical use and broader public benefit.
• Identify and advance promising UW discoveries through clear commercialization and technology transfer pathways, coordinated partnerships and entrepreneurship activities that move UW innovations from research to application and generate societal and economic impact.

Corresponding actions for Goal 2.C.1:

• Pair major research infrastructure investments with multi-year operating support, personnel and maintenance plans to ensure long-term sustainability and impact.
• Establish expert review and governance processes to guide ethical, secure, fair and transparent access to shared infrastructure and resources and to inform future infrastructure investment priorities and decisions.

Corresponding actions for Goal 2.C.2:

• Conduct regular reviews of research administrative and compliance processes and establish improvement targets for cycle time, consistency and user experience for faculty and staff.
• Modernize and streamline research administration processes through co-design with faculty and staff to advance research, innovation and partnership development while appropriately managing risk.
• Advance consistent implementation of procedures and agreements across units by building on existing standardized frameworks.

Corresponding actions for Goal 2.C.3:

• Monitor emerging funding opportunities, sponsor priorities, policy developments and external trends to identify opportunities aligned with the UW’s strengths and strategic priorities.
• Mobilize and support interdisciplinary teams and partnership networks to pursue large-scale funding opportunities and strategic initiatives.
• Develop institutional mechanisms to sustain critical research programs, infrastructure and personnel during periods of external funding disruption while positioning them for future growth and partnership opportunities.
• Strengthen relationships with key funders, federal agencies, philanthropic organizations, policymakers, industry, community and other partner organizations to enhance the UW’s visibility, influence and competitiveness.
• Expand support through convening, matchmaking, seed funding and planning resources to help promising ideas mature into institutionally significant initiatives aligned with UW priorities.