Goal #1: Excellence in Education

Aim

To stimulate our students’ lifelong needs for knowledge and learning and to encourage an innovative and independent attitude and an aspiration to achieve success within the University.

Objectives

1. Create and sustain a culture that supports teaching and learning excellence in all academic programs;
2. Foster a climate in which teaching is highly valued and facilitate flexible learner journeys;
3. Strengthen institutional structures that promote pedagogical innovations within colleges and programs;
4. Promote the health and well-being of students as a foundation for academic and market success; and
5. Attract an excellent and diverse body of undergraduate students.

Goal #2: Excellence in Research

Aim

To foster a vibrant, successful and interactive research community that generates ideas and discoveries, creates new fields of knowledge and makes a difference to the societal, cultural, environmental and health.

Objectives

1. Strengthen support for and recognition of important interdisciplinary areas, while ensuring excellence in disciplines as a foundation;
2. Significantly improve institution-wide services for the administration and support of research grants (including government, foundation, and industry funding);
3. Provide leadership in solving key national, regional and global research challenges;
4. Realize the full potential of our research base; and
5. Generate a cohort of future research leaders.

Goal #3: Excellence in Community Service & Engagement

Aim

To create the conditions under which our students, staff and the wider community are inspired and supported to contribute to social responsibility and community development.

Objectives

1. Make public engagement a distinctive feature of education;
2. Construct a unified concept and vision for the university’s public engagement mission;
3. Develop rigorous, systematic evaluations of all outreach programs;
4. Strongly connect public engagement to on-campus research and educational strengths; and
5. Promote stronger collaborations and partnerships between the university and stakeholders that can make use of and strengthen our research’s’ positive impact on society.

Goal #4: Internationalization

Aim

To think global and act local in order to meet the aspirations of our University community and society as a whole to international standards.

Objectives

1. incorporate internationalization in all areas of University activity;
2. develop an internationally relevant curriculum;
3. Strengthen the educational impact of international opportunities and experiences for students;
4. expand our global outreach and capacity-building contributions; and
5. promote global citizenship and collaborating on teaching and learning, research and knowledge exchange with international partners