Strengthen our faculty and align resources with academic and research units to capitalize on our scholarly synergies across campus

1. Increase the number of faculty members with an intentional focus on enhancing diversity and retention, building disciplinary strength and significance, advancing interdisciplinary discovery and innovation, and elevating the importance of translational research
2. Create an inclusive, scholarly culture among the faculty, students, and staff by improving the climate for all members of the university community and aiding in the retention of underrepresented faculty
3. Support and empower specialized faculty to succeed in their primary roles in teaching, research, or clinical work
4. Ensure explicit, detailed charters for centers, institutes, and initiatives seeded at all levels across campus, and establish an evaluation process to ensure their viability, sustainability, cross-disciplinary reach, relevance, and impact

5. Grow the global impact of our research by building strong educational, research, and translational partnerships with leading universities, research institutes, and corporations in the United States and abroad

Develop a strong infrastructure, policies, and practices to support scholarship, innovation, public engagement, and entrepreneurship across disciplinary lines

1. Partner and leverage investments in state-of-the-art instruments and facilities to provide safe and modern research environments
2. Enhance translational and commercialization support to promote entrepreneurial opportunities
3. Promote and foster multidisciplinary convergent scholarly opportunities for our undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students
4. Grow our entrepreneurial ecosystem, research translation, and new venture creation through investments in EnterpriseWorks, Research Park, and Carle Illinois College of Medicine

5. Align with opportunities in the Discovery Partners Institute and the Illinois Innovation Network

Affirm our commitment to the foundational role of the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences, and invest in their contribution to our research, creative, and innovation pursuits for the common good

1. Facilitate new roles for artists and designers in research, teaching, and engagement across the campus and community through integration of arts practitioners into areas beyond their departmental homes
2. Advance the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities to an Institute with additional infrastructure, staffing, and support for leadership

3. Elevate the Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Initiative to a Center to foster intersections with technology, promote measurements and assessment, and fight the root causes of poverty and social disparities

Establish Illinois as the global leader in digital transformation at the service of society

1. Invest in new facilities, infrastructure, and resources that leverage the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, expand our computing strengths and resources, advance the frontiers of quantum information and new computing paradigms, and bolster our strength in information sciences, data science, data analytics, health analytics, and machine learning
2. Foster and support new multidisciplinary research and educational programs to advance our excellence and leadership in areas such as autonomy and augmented human intelligence, environmental monitoring and sustainability, e-Learning and personalized learning
3. Establish Illinois as the leading intellectual center for the advancement of ideas, principles, policies, regulations, and tools for the just, safe, sustainable, and peaceful progress of the world's digital transformation
4. Enrich interdisciplinary connections and invest in new resources and facilities to expand our campus's strength in food, nutrition, energy, health sciences, and cancer
5. Establish new initiatives in data-driven agriculture and personalized nutrition that harness the power of research at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
6. Invest in core infrastructure, including seed funding for health-related programs and clinical partnerships that link basic, translational, and applied research, positioning Illinois to partner with key health care, government, and corporate partners such as the Mayo Clinic and Illinois Alliance
7. Foster activities across disciplines to build a vibrant enterprise in cancer research, education, and outreach, that translates Illinois' innovations to societal impact, while securing National Cancer Institute designation as a basic science cancer center

Ensure that a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign education is available to all who qualify academically by implementing financial aid programs to increase accessibility and by growing our merit-based scholarship programs to attract an outstanding and diverse student body

Develop a campuswide initiative in undergraduate and graduate student success that integrates classroom experiences, academic support, academic advising and mentoring, and co-curricular student services and experiences

1. Continue to support and augment teaching excellence in all modalities by investing in and valuing teaching
2. Assure the quality of learning on campus by fostering a culture of assessing curricular and co-curricular programs, using evidence to improve the student experience, and sharing learning outcomes for all programs in a way that is transparent and consistent with the recently endorsed campus student learning outcomes
3. Re-envision instruction, staffing, and educational spaces for foundational courses that provide the academic base upon which all programs build
4. Implement a new academic advising paradigm
5. Develop a campus center for academic support
6. Coordinate, connect, and create partnerships between the programs on campus that support students' physical and mental health and well-being

7. Utilize student performance data and advanced analytics to improve student success

Provide new educational pathways and enhance current programs to increase flexibility and to foster education across disciplines

1. Identify opportunities for modular curricula that allow the creation of new or modified degree programs
2. Explore ways students can develop skills and proficiencies across multiple disciplinary areas by increasing the availability and feasibility of dual majors and joint degrees, especially when majors cross colleges
3. Examine methods to pilot cutting-edge degree programs that can be implemented in a timely way
4. Re-envision, reshape, and re-examine the Illinois undergraduate student experience by considering the role of General Education in preparing students for an ever-changing society
5. Provide all Illinois students the opportunity to have a meaningful exposure to data science and to integrate arts into the curriculum such as through the Siebel Center for Design
6. Incentivize the development of cross-disciplinary graduate education programs and certificates, while addressing some of the barriers to these programs

7. Integrate and emphasize global perspectives within our learning environment, and benefit from the international diversity of our students, faculty, and staff

Identify a path forward to respect diverse groups, develop educational strategies to increase knowledge about different cultures, and create a campus that celebrates our diverse university and community

1. Prepare students for living in a diverse, globally minded society by offering enriching programming and services
2. Enhance support for students with disabilities to ensure that all students have the same opportunity to acquire information and receive services in an equally effective and equally integrated manner
3. Conduct climate surveys at regular intervals and use the results to educate and improve the campus community

4. Create educational opportunities and resources for faculty members to work with and advocate for a diverse student body

Encourage every undergraduate student to complete one or more integrative learning experiences, such as capstone courses, internships, research, and study abroad

1. Develop uniform campus mechanisms to award academic credit for experiential learning activities, while ensuring the experience is aligned with our high-quality educational standards
2. Assure that students have opportunities to participate in University of Illinois Extension and public engagement activities through volunteerism and service learning
3. Leverage the Discovery Partners Institute and the Illinois Innovation Network to provide undergraduate students with immersive experiential learning opportunities
4. Provide transformative learning opportunities for undergraduate research, taking advantage of our world-class faculty and research infrastructure

5. Develop global awareness and cultural competency through a combination of curricular, student-life activities, and international experiences that build and foster collegewide and universitywide strategic partnerships

Innovate in graduate, professional, and continuing education, with new degree programs and certificates at the intersection of disciplines, and support recruitment and retention of graduate students

1. Invest in the success of graduate education and our graduate students to ensure access and inclusion to our university for as diverse a student population as possible, through sustainability funding and graduate fellowships
2. Empower our graduate programs to recruit, fund, and retain underrepresented minority graduate students
3. Leverage the Discovery Partners Institute and the Illinois Innovation Network to make the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the go-to place for professional and continuing education programs

4. Provide sustainable funding for graduate fellowships in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and other areas of importance to our scholarly excellence and societal impact

Expand investments in building and renovating state-of-the-art learning spaces and infrastructure to support the latest modes of instruction and learning for Illinois students both on and off campus as well as in small and large classroom spaces

1. Pursue new opportunities for programs to have online components including new technologies such as virtual reality
2. Build additional training grants for faculty members to develop online courses and programs
3. Develop additional MOOCs to reach a broader population of students both on and off campus

Empower University of Illinois Extension to differentiate itself from other state extension networks by focusing on societal grand challenges, to balance its efforts to address rural and metropolitan needs and issues, and to collaborate with faculty and staff across all colleges to have a higher impact

Create a structure and culture that facilitates and values long-term partnerships with external stakeholders through the development of a campuswide strategic plan on public engagement that includes both extension and nonextension activities

1. Promote a faculty and institutional culture that prizes and rewards engaged research/scholarship and teaching
2. Build a better network of cooperation among the many publicly engaged activities already occurring in the colleges, departments, research institutes, and public good entities, such as those activities focused on K-12 schools, veterans, and continuing education for lawyers, social workers, teachers, veterinarians, etc.
3. Establish principled, long-term partnerships in the public sector for areas where the research stands to benefit the public good through collaborative policymaking or other applications

4. Foster an environment where our excellence in education and scholarship have a global impact and where international perspectives are built into the institutional culture such as through the area studies centers and critical conversations

Develop our students to be future leaders with deep understanding of the unique commitments, traditions, and challenges of distinct communities by increasing student opportunities for service learning and volunteering through campus organizations and off-campus organizations

Draw local and regional community members onto campus through the development of a broader spectrum of enriching cultural and athletic experiences that leverage the university's common good facilities and community programming

1. Build on the 50 years of success of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts to increase its scale and reach by providing additional enriching educational opportunities
2. Support and celebrate the educational and outreach efforts of Krannert Art Museum, Spurlock Museum, cultural resources centers, Illini Union, Campus Recreation, and athletics
3. Coordinate and communicate clear paths for broad audiences to attend existing public lectures such as those offered in the College of Law or through the CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series
4. Build better translational and transparent communications to share research findings and other successes by leveraging the Illinois Experts database and the connections to Illinois Public Media (WILL-AM-FM-TV-Online), and other university media sources

5. Partner with a wide variety of stakeholders, including Division of Intercollegiate Athletics, who bring people to campus to showcase the research and education happening at Illinois

Engage with our local and regional community and neighborhoods in ways that have an impact

1. Better connect and communicate how our master planning affects the area and region
2. Develop synergies and strategies to examine how our procurement and contracting services support local and minority-serving businesses

3. Examine and assess creation of jobs, business, and new ventures locally and regionally

Accelerate the growth of the Illinois entrepreneurial ecosystem to establish Champaign-Urbana as the best university-based entrepreneurship and innovation hub in the Midwest

1. Invest in new facilities in the Research Park to grow our resources and services in support of new business creation, economic development, and prosperity in the region, across the state, and beyond
2. Advance and accelerate the impact of our university's outstanding record of breakthrough discoveries and innovations by dedicating resources for marketing, advancement, corporate relations, and alumni engagement

3. Increase the capacity for our entrepreneurial ecosystem to leverage networks of people, companies, and capital, and to set up and manage partnerships with the Discovery Partners Institute, including other innovation hubs and universities

Reach out to all community stakeholders and partner with them to make our university and its surrounding region the leading innovation center and testbed for the technologies and services that will enable the safe, healthy, and sustainable communities of the future

1. Engage our students in a technology-augmented living and learning environment that nurtures their wellness, empowers their academic success, and inspires them to be proactive innovators and contributors to the communities of tomorrow
2. Leverage our strengths in computing, engineering, and data analytics to build a functional "smart and connected community" for our campus and its neighboring areas

3. Work closely with all community stakeholders to anticipate and research the opportunities and challenges associated with making our community safe, inclusive, healthy, sustainable, and resilient to any major natural or manmade disruption, and to conceive, develop prototypes, and test the relevant policies, programs, and services

Create workforce-development strategies and related partnerships across the public and private sectors, with an emphasis on using Illinois expertise to create new jobs and enhance the skill sets of new and continuing workers

Develop and execute an integrated, coordinated, and sustained marketing and communications effort to all stakeholders and influencers: students, alumni, parents and friends, business and government leaders, and residents of the state of Illinois

1. Build and implement a university-level brand platform that clearly establishes a distinct position for the university among our peers
2. Create a strategic marketing-communications campaign that shares our story of learning, discovery, and engagement to internal and external audiences to achieve metrics-based goals
3. Provide training for researchers to better communicate their scholarship and discoveries with general audiences, making research findings more readily available to all media platforms
4. Place special emphasis on articulating the overwhelming economic impact of the university to the state of Illinois as well as the university's contributions to the Discovery Partners Institute and the Illinois Innovation Network

5. Increase visibility and connections for the university's leaders among opinion leaders in the Chicago area

Improve visibility and coordination for university efforts that allow students and faculty to work closely with the public sector and decision-makers to impact public policy

Implement and promote Operational Excellence @ Illinois, a campuswide initiative to streamline, innovate, reduce costs, improve services, and coordinate processes at all levels

1. Build a smarter budgeting and financial system that will allow multiyear planning, provide more effective data for decision-making, enhance our cash management strategies, and coordinate university and system financial plans
2. Promote continued transparency and accountability with smarter budgeting systems by providing better data for multiyear planning, estimating the cost of instruction, and evaluating the cost of research for both operations and capital planning
3. Improve understanding of budget, accounting issues, and financial planning at all levels
4. Implement ongoing programmatic and budgetary review processes for nonacademic units
5. Develop, integrate, and coordinate high-quality technology solutions at all levels by investing in integrated solutions that have scale efficiencies, improve service quality, and enhance campus cybersecurity, while encouraging innovation that addresses specialized needs of units
6. Identify specific areas to reduce overhead costs for research to maintain and improve our competitiveness with our peers
7. Allocate resources devoted to Operational Excellence @ Illinois proposals and actions that can be implemented to improve processes, reduce costs, enhance productivity, and develop an operational excellence mindset across all units on campus
8. Become more cost-efficient on renovation, repair, and building projects with a particular focus on reducing time to completion. Examine process improvements starting with more effective planning, project management, and execution
9. Evaluate and address how to optimize space on campus through multiyear master planning

10. Heighten our efforts to apply universal design and individual access to the campus environment including architecture, instruction, services, and technology

Actively explore additional revenue sources by increasing online education, corporate partnerships, and royalty and patent revenue through creating the proper infrastructure for building large-scale research proposals, and supporting scholars as they commercialize research for entrepreneurial opportunities that bring cutting-edge technologies to market

Allocate additional institutional resources to increase the amount and availability of student scholarships and other financial aid, to make an Illinois education accessible for every qualified student through the Illinois Commitment Program, and to attract the best and brightest to the university

Understand that the largest resource on campus is its employees and students while creating an inclusive and welcoming campus climate

1. Deploy a professional development strategy and award system for employees by leveraging existing programs and adding new programs where required
2. Recognize that diversity is essential to our excellence, and interweave diversity through planning and operations
3. Recognize that climate challenges differ for faculty, staff, and students
4. Develop a robust infrastructure to identify, manage, and mitigate internal disputes and climate issues
5. Commit to mentoring and support for the success and professional development of faculty and staff to ensure that processes governing recruiting, hiring, and promotion are inclusive and follow research-based practices for avoiding bias

6. Be a leader in developing and implementing effective, evidence-based policies to address discrimination and harassment

Foster an integrated and holistic approach to institutional advancement efforts

1. Further develop and expand Illinois Alumni Association programming toward a unified and innovative relationship model for engaging alumni, friends, parents, and students
2. Continued refinement of responsible data-sharing practices throughout the institutional and constituent lifecycles
3. Prioritize our campus fundraising efforts through With Illinois to emphasize soliciting support for programs and projects tied to our strategic vision
4. Redefine the With Illinois experience by leveraging existing or creating new engagement channels to inspire, capture, and share Illinois pride and affinity
5. Enhance and emphasize our robust international alumni network to increase financial resources and Illinois passion across the globe
6. Strategically source, share, or add essential advancement staff and resources to deliver efficiencies across the campus
7. Remain focused on synergistic alignment between industrial/corporate relationships, research collaboration, and philanthropic gift opportunities