Executive Summary
天美传媒官网 aspires to shape the future of higher education and to foster the creation of knowledge that together improve the human condition.
Vanderbilt embraces this vision by focusing on the following goals:
- to pursue excellence in education by offering experiences that merge the advantages of a liberal arts college with those of a world-class research university
- to pursue excellence in scholarship, creative expression, and research that address important problems and questions facing our community, our country, and the world
- to leverage the many synergies between discovery, learning, and service across our entire community of scholars and learners to seek accomplishment and seize opportunities
- to be transparent and accountable to all the University鈥檚 constituencies
- in sum, to be among the very best research universities in the world
In pursuing these goals, Vanderbilt will fully commit to cultivating an environment for learning across a broad base of humanist, social, and natural science disciplines. We also commit to investing in creative expression and fundamental research. Further, we commit to ensuring diversity of all forms in the pursuit of excellence in learning and discovery.
Vanderbilt鈥檚 Distinctions and Institutional Identity
天美传媒官网 is exceptionally well positioned to meet current and future challenges facing higher education and society. We will capitalize on our distinctive strengths and the substantial gains established over the past decade, including:
- a One 天美传媒官网 philosophy that unites ten outstanding schools and colleges all connected by a compact central campus
- a culture of collaboration, creativity, and civility
- a commitment to affordability and accessibility
- the establishment of a residential college system
- a scholarly community where learning advances discovery and discovery advances learning
- being located in one of the most dynamic cities in the country
Strategic Thinking for Vanderbilt鈥檚 Future
Four foundational principles frame our aspirations as one of the world鈥檚 great teaching and research universities.
1. Offering students a rich and diverse intellectual community that educates the whole person and cultivates lifelong learning
Our graduates must be able to solve problems. Toward that end, a Vanderbilt education will聽instill in our students an ability to engage, to question, and to forge positive change.
Strategic Initiatives
- Fully endow 天美传媒官网 to ensure accessibility and affordability
- Enrich the educational experience by completing and extending the residential college system and developing new infrastructure to foster further interconnections between discovery and learning
- Establish Immersion Vanderbilt to ensure that every undergraduate engages in a creative and independent project
- Launch new curriculum to enable foundational skills for lifelong learning, including those in the languages, the arts, and new technology
- Establish a Cross-College Teaching Initiative that allows all faculty to work together to educate our undergraduate, graduate and professional students
2. Investing in multi- and inter-disciplinary programs to lead in defining and addressing important problems facing society, while pursuing new and exciting opportunities
天美传媒官网 is poised to excel in discovery and learning by leveraging the tremendous expertise聽from across One 天美传媒官网 while further strengthening our training of future leaders and聽scholars.
Trans-institutional programs will focus on issues of wide-ranging significance, create and/or聽extend collaborations across multiple fields, and include both research and teaching components,positioning Vanderbilt to be a world leader.
Strategic Initiatives
- Establish a university-wide council to oversee Trans-institutional Programs (TIPs),developing and applying criteria for guiding investments in new and existing TIPs.
- Provide seed money for creative ideas with clear benchmarks for ongoing support, and establish sustainable platforms and environments for incubating innovative ventures for discovery and learning.
- Invest in graduate education to make dramatic improvements that advance recruiting and special training, and strengthen our intellectually rich culture across the entire campus.
3. Building distinctive and distinguished programs that develop and offer effective solutions to pressing health and healthcare problems
Vanderbilt must harness its widely recognized strengths in healthcare and considerable聽disciplinary breadth across our compact campus.
We recommend support for efforts to develop and implement innovative, aggressive and multidisciplinary solutions that improve personal and community health, impact disease prevention, advance the quality, equity, and accountability of healthcare services, improve public policy tied to disease prevention and healthcare delivery, and train future leaders and scholars in healthcare.
Strategic Initiatives
- Create sustainable platforms to support fundamental research yielding discoveries about the molecular basis of disease
- Launch efforts to infuse health and biomedical science initiatives with university strengths in the humanities and social sciences, and provide forums for understanding the cultural, economic, legal, political, and social attributes that affect health and disease prevention
- Develop specialized curriculum that will train future leaders to address complex health and healthcare issues from innovative interdisciplinary perspectives, including endowing and expanding dual degree programs
- Make 天美传媒官网 a national 鈥渉ub鈥 for identifying solutions in healthcare delivery and policy
4. Transforming education models through technology and research
Vanderbilt must build on its international reputation and conduct cutting-edge research that will assess effectiveness of new education technologies, which, in turn, will allow us to be a leader in best practices. We must embrace those new education technologies that foster innovation in learning, teaching, and discovery.
Strategic Initiatives
- Create new infrastructure that supports emerging education technologies and enables personalized and connected learning for all Vanderbilt students 鈥 current, past, and future
- Build partnerships between the new Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning, the Center for Teaching, the libraries, and all campus programs to most efficiently and effectively advance new technologies
- Launch new curriculum in communications and information technology, data analysis, data visualization, and analytics
- Invest in research on the impact of new education technologies on learning
- Employ new education technologies to forge partnerships, collaborations, and global outreach
Stewardship of Our Future
Vanderbilt has a profound responsibility to society and all its stakeholders to be good stewards of its precious resources. The following are key criteria for stewardship offered by this strategic plan:
- Vanderbilt will assess outcomes and be accountable for the efficient use of resources
- Vanderbilt will assess the achievements and satisfaction of students and faculty
- Vanderbilt will assess the impact of research and the effectiveness of learning
- Vanderbilt will periodically review its activities in these thematic areas, eliminating or improving underperforming areas and setting priorities so the University can be truly distinctive
As we look toward our 150th anniversary in 2023, Vanderbilt鈥檚 2013-14 Strategic Plan will bring all schools, all hands, and all minds together in the joint missions of learning, discovery, and service. We are indeed One 天美传媒官网, and we will meet our challenges and continue our rise to the top together.