The Strategic Plan priorities of UMC
To provide an exceptional and transformative student experience we will focus on:
▪ supporting and recognizing excellence in teaching and learning;
▪ supporting and recognizing those academic programs that are engaging, challenging, and relevant;
▪ increasing student financial assistance, and;
▪ improving our recruitment and retention of exceptional students.
To demonstrate leadership in discovery, innovation and entrepreneurship we focus on:
▪ building stronger partnerships across all sectors;
▪ supporting our community in developing more high quality research as appropriate to their disciplines and roles;
▪ help make New Brunswick a destination of choice for advanced studies;
▪ continue to increase external research revenues, and;
▪ creating a "one stop shop" to facilitate access to faculty, staff and student expertise for existing and potential external partners.
To provide financial resilience and responsibility we will focus on:
▪ securing additional funding;
▪ generating additional resources;
▪ eliminating our structural deficit, and;
▪ increasing our endowment fund.
To build a better university we will focus on:
▪ providing faculty and staff with an intensely satisfying and fulfilling work experience;
▪ ensuring a positive learning and working environment, where all members of our community are respectful and respected as individuals;
▪ becoming a leader in employee satisfaction within the university sector;
▪ ensuring that our donors have a lasting connection with our university and are well informed of the impact their support has on our community;
▪ developing tools and metrics to better measure the engagement of our community.
To build a better province we will focus on:
▪ becoming leaders in community engagement;
▪ increasing and improving our collaborations with many partners to advance the social, economic and cultural progress of our province;
▪ increasing opportunities for the citizens of New Brunswick to participate in continuing education including online and distance teaching and learning.
