Year Three Progress Report

Adopted in September 2003, the UC Davis Strategic Plan is entering its fourth year as a guiding document for planning, actions, and decisions throughout the campus.  More...

Strategic Plan Strategies

Framework for Success

• Enroll and graduate academically talented and diverse undergraduate, graduate and professional students.
• Recruit, develop and retain a distinguished and diverse faculty and staff to increase national and international distinction and leadership in learning, discovery and engagement.
• Foster and sustain a diverse, respectful and cohesive campus community.
• Provide the physical facilities, information resources and technology infrastructure necessary to achieve national and international distinction and leadership in learning, discovery and engagement.
• Aggressively pursue the financial resources necessary to achieve national and inter-national preeminence in learning, discovery and engagement.

• Ensure that the campus maintains and develops high-caliber courses, curricula and academic programs.
• Enhance the quality of faculty-student interactions.
• Expand research, internship and international experiences for undergraduates.

Discovery

• Invest in targeted areas of established and emerging excellence and distinction.
• Advance the role of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the research enterprise.
• Strengthen research at all levels by facilitating the application for and management of grants of all sizes across all disciplines.

Engagement

• Contribute to the solution of society's most pressing problems locally and around the globe through disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, life-long education and community partnerships.
• Build and enhance enduring relationships with alumni, parents of students and friends of the campus.
• Provide effective and active support for the economic development and quality of life in the region and state.