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Five Transformational Goals

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Student Experience

Delivering an educational and overall experience that develops students who are capable of solving problems, leading and innovating in a diverse and interconnected world.

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Diversity and Access

Cultivating a diverse and inclusive university community that encourages respectful open dialogue and challenges itself to take bold actions that will ensure learning is accessible and affordable for all.

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Interdisciplinary Research

Nurturing and supporting a collaborative and interdisciplinary research culture that advances the frontiers of knowledge, shapes new fields and disseminates discoveries that transform lives.

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Community Enrichment

Supporting and promoting just and sustainable forms of economic development, shared prosperity and social and cultural enrichment regionally and globally.

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Supportive Infrastructure

Creating an agile, sustainable, and supportive infrastructure by ensuring a dedication to service, people and financial stewardship.

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Four Grand Research Themes

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Understanding and Protecting the Planet

Explaining and effectively communicating environmental change, engineering economically viable solutions that will enhance the resilience of society and recommending necessary policy changes and assessing their economic impact.
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Enriching Human Life and Society

Improving health and alleviating ailments, and mitigating social disparities through education, resources, historic perspectives, technologies and communication.
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Exploring the Basis of Human Knowledge, Learning, and Creativity

Probing the structure and workings of the human brain to discover the relationship between the brain and behavior; the impact of genetics, history and culture on how we think and act; the surging and ebbing movements of nations and populations; and the nature of knowledge itself.
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Understanding Cultures and Addressing Disparities in Society

Revealing the full richness and breadth of human experience: build an appreciation of diverse cultures, perspectives, value systems, historical contexts, governance and organizational structures; and foster the creation of new means of expression, analyses and social organizations that will be important intellectual tools for the next generation.