VCU's strategic plan for 2018-2025
Welcome to the website for Quest 2025: Together We Transform. Quest 2025 provides high-level guidance and direction to ensure we are all working toward common goals. As the name implies, Quest 2025 serves as a successor to the 2012-18 strategic plan, Quest for Distinction, as we continue to make VCU the premier urban, public research university.
Four themes shape Quest 2025
- Student success
- National prominence
- Collective urban and regional transformation
- Diversity driving excellence
Track our progress
VCU's Institutional Research and Decision Support provides a dashboard that visualizes the plan's metrics and progress toward reaching its goals. Visit the dashboard to track progress toward Quest 2025.
Our mission: The proposed mission statement is approved by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia/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
VCU strategic plan history
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