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Strategic Goals and Supporting Actions
- Advance the University's academic, research, scholarship, and service priorities,
consistent with a top tier university, and continue to promote growth and national prominence
in these areas.
- Promote and enhance areas of academic, scholarship, and research excellence.
- Increase the recognition of the University's service priorities that enhance the quality
of life for all Alabamians.
- Improve communication and increase collaboration among academic and administrative units.
- Align resources to most effectively support academic, scholarship, and research excellence
priorities.
- Effectively use course offerings and class size to support priorities.
- Streamline administrative functions and improve their effectiveness.
- Sharpen assessment activities of all campus functions and link those to an enhanced
planning process.
- Develop the research infrastructure and enhance the library resources necessary to be
competitive for grants and contracts.
- Provide infrastructure and promote the utilization of intellectual property generated
at the University.
- Retain and recruit outstanding faculty and staff to support the teaching, research,
and service mission of the University.
- Provide competitive salaries and benefits for faculty and staff.
- Ensure performance-based merit salary increases.
- Create new types of faculty and staff positions that reflect the changing role of technical,
research, creative, and clinical activities.
- Increase the number of graduate research and teaching assistants and provide them with
competitive salaries and benefits.
- Improve communication among all constituent groups in campus decision-making processes.
- Enhance relationships among community and University of Alabama leaders to promote an
excellent quality of life for faculty, staff, and students.
- Expand the University's emphasis on global and cultural studies.
- Promote collaborative research approaches to address large scale problems of regional
and national interest.
- Enhance the university's learning environment to attract and retain excellent
students.
- Develop Honors College to attract and retain outstanding students.
- Expand the development of living/learning communities.
- Encourage and reward creative strategies for engaging students in learning and life
long learning.
- Increase involvement of undergraduate students in research and scholarly activities.
- Continue progress in achieving diversity among faculty, staff, students, and administration.
- Develop a pedestrian core area with supporting transportation system.
- Maintain and revitalize many of the campus' architecturally significant buildings.
- Equip classrooms, libraries, and laboratories for state-of-the-art learning.
- Ensure user-friendly support services for students, faculty, and staff.
- Continue to modernize information technology resources.
- Increase attention to, and rewards for, excellence in teaching.
- Increase the level of academic scholarship support.
- Ensure the campus environment is safe for all members of the campus community.
- Provide career preparation and employment services that lead graduates to satisfying
and productive careers and professions.
- Develop a University-wide emphasis on leadership as a primary role of the flagship
university of the State of Alabama.
- Provide leadership in addressing economic and social issues in Alabama through research
and outreach activities.
- Promote collaboration with business, non-profit and governmental agencies to advance
the economic and social condition of Alabama.
- Produce scholars who will become academic leaders in their disciplines.
- Produce graduates who will serve as effective leaders in Alabama's government, businesses,
educational systems, health care, and other professions, and who will be leaders in their
communities.
- Develop and reward leadership skills among students, faculty, and staff.
- Promote leadership development among Alabama's community leaders, businesses, educational
systems, healthcare systems, government agencies, arts organizations, and other vital
areas of the state.
- Support our alumni in serving as leaders in their professions and communities.
- Emphasize the creation of leaders as a core component of an education at Alabama's flagship
university.
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