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Create a more inclusive campus culture.
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- Recruit and retain a more diverse faculty, staff, and student body.
- Increase opportunities that advance student, faculty, and staff understanding of diversity.
- Design curricula that emphasize diverse contexts and the value of global citizenship.
- Maximize effectiveness of programs that support first-generation, international, underrepresented, and nontraditional students.
- Invest in cultural centers and identity specific spaces to foster effective social, academic, and service opportunities.
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Prepare students to be experts in their disciplines and leaders in their fields. (Aligned with BOR SP Objectives 1.1, 1.3, 2.4)
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- Invest in high-impact practices (HIPs) that promote critical thinking, problem solving, discipline-based knowledge, analysis, creativity, synthesis, and perspective taking.
- Ensure that all undergraduate students can articulate their leadership competencies by the time they graduate.
- Embed more career-readiness, alumni engagement and mentoring, and capstone courses within majors.
- Promote academic and co-curricular experiences that develop citizenship, including responsibilities to society and to the environment.
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Optimize campus environments to support holistic student success. (Aligned with BOR SP Objectives 1.1, 1.2, 2.4, 3.2)
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- Create technological tools and cohesive four-year success messages that empower students to chart their own course along pathways to success.
- Increase course-linked academic support and encourage course redesign for high failure rate and gateway courses.
- Ensure that critical academic spaces such as classrooms, libraries, and help centers are optimized for 21st century learning.
- Invest in pedagogical development for instructors at all levels, and for both in-classroom and online delivery modes.
- Maximize efforts to reduce non-tuition financial burdens through affordable and accessible on-campus student housing, meal plans, and course materials.
- Expand the campus-wide mental health support network for students.
- Increase the number of UI faculty & staff working with at-risk first-year students.
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Invest in graduate and professional student support. (Aligned with BOR SP Objective 1.2)
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- Expand flexible models of sustained student funding for research, teaching, and professional development.
- Ensure that graduate and professional students interested in academic careers have sufficient competence in grant writing, teaching, and publishing or artistic production to be competitive.
- Minimize barriers to enrollment in interdisciplinary, cross-listed courses.
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Become a Research I institution of choice for undergraduate students aspiring to pursue graduate or professional education. (Aligned with BOR SP Objectives 1.1, 1.3)
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- Capitalize on the rich synergies of UIHC, the health sciences, and the professional schools to provide an extraordinary student experience.
- Expand undergraduate research programs and faculty-student mentoring in health science and professional colleges.
- Promote undergraduate-to-graduate/professional programs.
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