Quest 2025: Together We Transform

Priorities for 2018-19

Detailed implementation plans will be developed annually to reflect the university’s highest priorities and their associated strategies, tactics, resources and metrics — ensuring accountability for results. The first of the detailed implementation plans, the 2018-19 Presidential Strategic Priorities Grid [DOC], includes specifics on the following strategies to advance delivery of the highest-quality experience and outcomes for our students and patients:

• Refocus the undergraduate experience through interdisciplinary learning and the R.E.A.L. initiative
• Implement enrollment strategies: decrease student debt; launch VCU Online; increase in-state, domestic and international out-of-state student enrollments
• Strengthen teaching and research faculty compensation
• Increase national research prominence
• Achieve Make It Real capital campaign
• Strengthen the patient experience significantly 

The Board of Visitors will consider 2019-20 priorities for approval in early fall. 

Our mission: The proposed mission statement is pending approval of the General Assembly

Virginia Commonwealth University and its academic health sciences center serve as one national urban public research institution dedicated to the success and well-being of our students, patients, faculty, staff and community through:

• Real-world learning that furthers civic engagement, inquiry, discovery and innovation
• Research that expands the boundaries of new knowledge and creative expression and promotes translational applications to improve the quality of human life
• Interdisciplinary collaborations and community partnerships that advance innovation, enhance cultural and economic vitality, and solve society’s most complex challenges
• Health sciences that preserve and restore health for all people, seek the cause and cure of diseases through groundbreaking research and educate those who serve humanity
• Deeply engrained core values of diversity, inclusion and equity that provide a safe, trusting and supportive environment to explore, create, learn and serve