Strategic Plan - University of Colorado Denver

IV. STRATEGIC PLANNING: ACHIEVING THE VISION
ACHIEVING THE VISION
As defined in our mission and vision statements, our primary focus now and in the
future is on our teaching and learning, research and creative work, health care, and
service activities. The analysis performed by the task forces revealed that we currently
do many of these activities well. We recognize that while we seek to develop new
areas it is essential that we maintain or strengthen areas of existing prominence,
including basic biomedical and clinical research and studies of education policy
and practice.
We recognize that achieving our vision will need to be carried out in phases. We are
a new university that is still becoming more than the sum of its parts. We will have
to focus on several strategies between now and our accreditation visit in 2010-11,
for example those that demonstrate how we operate as a consolidated university.
Periodically over the next 12-year period, we will revisit this strategic plan to
review and update our priorities, goals, and objectives.
How Do We See UC Denver in 2020?
The strategic plan we propose is bold. No great university was built on limited
aspirations or restrained ambitions. Our vision is to become a leading public
research university with a global reputation for excellence in learning, research
and creativity, community engagement, and clinical care. We will achieve this vision
for the people of Colorado, for our communities, for our students, for our faculty and
staff, and for our patients. In striving for this vision, we will be guided by our values
and incorporate an enduring commitment to excellence in everything we do.
By achieving this vision we will be a university:
We will
incorporate
an enduring
commitment to
excellence in
all we do.
that has developed new interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary programs of
study and degrees that enable our students to graduate with the potential to
be leaders in their fields;
in which the majority of our graduates will have had an international
experience and/or an independent research experience;
that provides an education that is sought after by prospective students
throughout the region, the nation, and the world;
with enhanced extramural research funding that will place us in the top
group of public research universities;
in which a greater number of its faculty have received national and international
recognition, such as membership in the National Academies;
that has recruited and retained outstanding faculty including at least one
Nobel Prize Laureate (or individual(s) with that potential);
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