5-year plan will go to trustees this month
The following are Pitt's goals and strategies for the rest of the century, according to the "Toward the 21st Century" plan.
Goals
* An emphasis on excellence in undergraduate teaching.
* A renewed emphasis on graduate and professional education.
* A new emphasis on global studies.
* A continued emphasis on research.
* A strengthened infrastructure for learning.
* A national admissions strategy.
* An increased emphasis on enriching the University experience for all students.
* A more diverse student body, faculty, and staff through effective recruiting.
* A strong leadership role — locally, regionally and nationally.
* A comprehensive program of human resource development.
* To develop a communal sense of cost-consciousness that will be a prerequisite for excellence in this era of diminishing resources.
Strategies Strategy 1: Transmit knowledge in more effective and efficient ways, seeking out new students, exploring different and improved instructional techniques, and recognizing the importance of all knowledge dissemination activities.
Strategy 2: Facilitate the discovery of knowledge, enhancing funded research opportunities and promoting and assisting investigations in the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, health sciences, and professions.
Strategy 3: Serve the citizens of the Commonwealth and beyond by seeking solutions to problems of human society and condition and by providing career-oriented educational opportunities to students, especially in professional programs unique in Pennsylvania.
Strategy 4: Strengthen the core areas of the University — the arts and sciences, business, engineering, law, and medicine — and continue to nurture existing areas of high quality.
Strategy 5: Enhance the knowledge environment by improving the quality of student life and providing the most appropriate range of academic opportunities and student activities.
Strategy 6: Move toward becoming a better integrated system of five campuses.
Strategy 7: Promote improved policies and procedures relative to the personnel who transmit, discover, and apply knowledge.
Strategy 8: Improve the structure and processes of the University, reducing barriers to the achievement of the other goals, and ensuring the continued primacy of the academic mission.
Strategy 9: Maintain and further develop the physical infrastructure and campus environments that support academic achievement, remaining sensitive to the interests of surrounding communities.
Strategy 10: Construct a new image of the University of Pittsburgh through the concerted application of long-range planning strategies, thereby enhancing institutional reputation and voluntary support.
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