猫咪视频 Strategic Priorities 2024-2029
Vision: The 猫咪视频 will be a leading comprehensive public university internationally recognized for educational, research, and healthcare excellence as well as for its positive intellectual, cultural, and economic impact on those it serves.
Mission: The 猫咪视频, with a global reach and special focus on the Gulf Coast, strives to make a difference in the lives of those it serves through promoting discovery, health, and learning.
Core Values: The 猫咪视频 affirms the following core values as essential to the accomplishment of its mission:
- Diversity and a Global Perspective
- A Pursuit of Excellence
- Freedom in the Pursuit of Knowledge
- Integrity
- Transparency and Participation in Decision-Making
Student Access and Success: 猫咪视频 commits to creating multiple pathways and partnerships that support admission of students from increasingly diverse backgrounds. 猫咪视频 provides access to the tools and resources for a diverse student body to be academically and personally successful at USA and also prepares them to achieve their postgraduate educational and professional ambitions.
- Strategically increase enrollment to 16,500 students.
- Employ targeted recruitment efforts for undergraduate students, adult learners, veterans, international students, Start 猫咪视频 students, and graduate students.
- Increase performance on student success metrics for all students related to progression and completion.
- Provide students services and student life experiences that they value, support their personal wellness, and create opportunities for personal development.
- LevelUP: Ensure all students are prepared for what comes next whether employment or advanced education.
- Provide faculty and staff professional development and support to increase the implementation
of high-impact practices resulting in increased student engagement and success and
meaningful relationships with faculty and staff.
Graduate Education: Graduate students and faculty are central to achieving both the educational and research components of our mission, to helping our community find solutions to its most pressing problems, and to improving economic and social outcomes in our region. - Ensure graduate students have meaningful engagement in research, clinical and/or other professional opportunities.
- Increase the number of grant-funded graduate students.
- Develop high-demand graduate programs aligned with institutional strengths.
- Increase the number of terminally-degreed graduate students.
Research, Discovery, and Creative Works: The 猫咪视频 faculty, staff, and students conduct internationally recognized research and scholarship to create new knowledge and medical advancements, spur economic development, help our region find solutions to its challenges, and improve the quality of life for our citizens. - Recognize and support excellence in faculty research, scholarly work, and creative achievements with emphasis on the structural supports necessary to achieve higher levels of national recognition in these areas.
- Increase grant proposal submissions.
- Increase the amount of research dollars awarded.
- Increase the proportion of research that is interdisciplinary.