TRANSFORMING THE U for the 21st CenturyTRANSFORMING THE U for the 21st CenturyEXCEPTIONAL STUDENTSEXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS

Make the University of Minnesota a destination of choice for students who reflect the diversity of our community

and world and are sought after because of their unique talents, skills,

and experiences

Educate and support all of our students to assume positions of

leadership in the community, state, nation, and world

Provide our students with the most

advanced, sophisticated, and comprehensive technology tools to enhance their learning experience

Globalize our students’ experience, recruit students from around the

world, and provide an education to prepare students to become global

citizens and leaders

EXCEPTIONAL FACULTY AND STAFFEXCEPTIONAL FACULTY AND STAFF

Recruit, identify, support, and reward stars on the rise

Create a robust culture of collaboration that encourages and

rewards boldness, imagination, and innovation

Hire, develop, and place diverse faculty and staff in positions that match

their skills and abilities with organizational needs

Strengthen the performance evaluation and reward systems to fully

engage, motivate, and challenge faculty and staff

Increase significantly the number of faculty receiving awards of distinction

EXCEPTIONAL ORGANIZATIONEXCEPTIONAL ORGANIZATION

Adopt best practices and embrace enterprise standard business practices, processes, and technology to achieve

efficient, effective and productive operations

Promote nimble decision-making using data, information, research, and analysis

Achieve a shared services administrative structure

Align resources to support strategic priorities

Commit to service and results that are best among peers

EXCEPTIONAL INNOVATIONEXCEPTIONAL INNOVATION

Foster an environment of creativity that encourages evolution of dynamic

fields of inquiry

Invest in strong core disciplines while supporting cross-disciplinary,

collaborative inquiry

Fully leverage our academic, research, and community partnerships and alliances to provide leadership in

a global context

Develop innovative strategies to accelerate the efficient and effective transfer and utilization of knowledge

for the public good

University Strategic Objectives Endorsed by the Executive Team, Summer 2007

Discussing new P&T standards at New Faculty Orientation

Regents Professor David Tilman conducts research with native plants that can be refined for fuel as part

of the new Institute on the Environment.

Two students enjoy a hutong tour in Beijing

The New Dental Simulation Clinic

New University Campus in Rochester