Introduction
IV. Principal Objectives
The strategic plan is based on 10 principal objectives that inform all of the specific goals and strategies described in the plan.
- Continue our pursuit of the essential research and educational mission of UCI as a public research university by maintaining and strengthening core academic disciplines.
- Continue our state-supported growth to reach 32,000 students by 2015, with 25 percent of that enrollment at the graduate level in our academic and professional programs. New professional schools and programs will be developed to help support that growth in graduate enrollment.
- Reinforce existing centers of excellence across the campus and elevate more of our academic and professional programs to the top of their fields through the differential allocation of resources. Included in those resources are more than 300 new faculty positions associated with enrollment growth over the next decade.
- Develop innovative programs in emerging disciplines, support interdisciplinary collaboration and establish new research centers by reserving some of the growth resources for these initiatives.
- Make UCI the best choice for the best graduates of California’s high schools by strengthening our undergraduate programs, increasing the number of majors across the campus, and expanding undergraduate research opportunities in all fields.
- Enhance the quality of our educational programs and enrich the intellectual and cultural life of the campus by increasing the diversity of our faculty and students.
- Support recruitment and retention of the best faculty, staff and students by expanding housing for all segments of the UCI community, including accommodations for 50 percent of our graduate and undergraduate students on campus by 2010.
- Increase the transfer of innovation from the campus to the community by expanding collaboration between the university and the extraordinary regional strengths in business and industry.
- Expand our contributions to the region, state and nation by improving health care for our community, developing more effective social and public policies, supporting the arts and enriching the cultural vitality of the area, and preparing more teachers for service in our public schools, particularly in the fields of science and mathematics.
- Support those aspects of the strategic plan not funded by the state by launching a major fundraising campaign.
These objectives will guide centralized planning for the university as a whole over the next decade, and they will help coordinate the more localized planning conducted within academic units and administrative offices across the campus.
