OU CORE is an OU-Tulsa initiative originating and supported, in part, by the COPC Grant, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and its Office of University Partnerships (OUP).
The mission of the OU-Tulsa Center for Outreach, Research and Education (CORE) is to identify, create, coordinate and sustain meaningful partnerships between the community and OU-Tulsa.
OU-Tulsa CORE’s vision is to assist university faculty and administrators integrate teaching curricula and research, particularly interdisciplinary research, with the needs of the community's citizens, businesses and organizations.
CORE functions include: identifying and introducing partners externally from the community and internally from all academic departments of the university, assisting partners to obtain and administer funding to undertake projects, serving as the clearing house for information while documenting data about all outreach activities at OU-Tulsa, and providing support to students and faculty involved in partnerships.