The Missouri Compacts for Achieving Excellence are five unifying principles that inform and guide the universities and their strategic plans.
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Student Success
- Increase academic quality and diversity
- Encourage and support faculty who are committed to excellent teaching as a critical component of student success
- Enhance learning experiences
- Increase flexible paths to learning and degree completion
- Increase professional development
- Increase retention and graduation rates
- Improve career outcomes
- Increase access and affordability
- Reduce debt at graduation and loan default rates
- Enhance access to and quality of services to improve student mental health, physical well-being and financial wellness
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Research and Creative Works
- Enhance intellectual merit and scholarly contributions
- Emphasize areas of broader impacts to promote education, outreach and benefits to society
- Increase national faculty awards & recognition
- Encourage collaborative interdisciplinary research across disciplines and campuses
- Improve the transfer of our research innovations for the public benefit
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Engagement and Outreach
- Build and sustain campus climates that value the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of all students, faculty, and staff
- Develop effective programs for educational, scientific, health, cultural, economic and social outreach with local, state, and global communities
- Establish innovative partnerships with industry, government and non-profit organizations for economic workforce development
- Leverage Extension programs to translate the research and teaching activities at our universities to citizens of Missouri and beyond
- Engage our constituencies to achieve our objectives and to serve as advocates
- Encourage collaborative interdisciplinary innovation and entrepreneurship across disciplines and campuses to lead to economic development
Inclusive Excellence
- Ensure increased access and success of undergraduate, graduate and professional students from diverse backgrounds, life histories, and abilities
- Recruit, retain, and promote faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds, life histories, and abilities
- Design challenging courses, curricula, and learning opportunities for students at all levels to prepare them for global citizenship and work
- Create challenging and engaging professional development opportunities to increase faculty and staff multicultural competencies and create inclusive learning environments
- Create a university climate that is supportive, respectful, and values differing perspectives and experiences
- Redesign policies and processes to remove barriers to inclusion and equity
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Planning, Operations and Stewardship
- Develop long-term planning processes for operating and capital needs
- Create measures of accountability visible to all stakeholders
- Develop processes, practices and policies that ensure efficiencies and collaborations across the four campuses of the UM 欧美口爆视频
- Optimize organizational structures to achieve research, teaching, and engagement objectives
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Reviewed 2024-03-11