Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix Campus
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VISION AND MISSION
Access and Quality for All
- Expand university access to match Arizona diversification
and growth
- Improve freshmen persistence to 90 percent
Enhance university graduation rate to 70-75 percent
as soon as possible
- Develop ASU culture that represents a commitment to quality
and community outreach
- Enroll 100,000 continuing education and degree completion students (including our contributionto AZUN)
- Enhance linkages with community colleges so as to expand baccalaureate degree production
- Enhance student development and individual student learning
National Comprehensive University by 2012
- Become a leading center for interdisciplinary science and technology discovery and development
- Become a leading center for discovery and scholarship in the
social sciences, arts and humanities.
- Enhance research and discovery competitiveness to more than $300 million (in 2006 dollars) in annual research expenditures
- Enhance regional economic competitiveness through research and discovery and value-added education programs
Establish National Standing in Academic Quality and Impact of Colleges and Schools in Every Field
- Attain national standing in academic quality for each school
- Attain national standing in the value added to our graduates
in each school
- Become the leading university academically
( faculty, discovery, research, creativity )
in at least one core subject within each school or college
Enhance our Local Impact and Social Embeddedness
- Enhance linkage to local and regional social and community development groups
- Establish/develop/enhance linkages and partnerships with local, regional and national NGO’s, governments and public agencies, and private sector firms with a focus on community development
- Undertake applied sustainability research that impacts the social, environmental and economic evolution of the southwest
- Provide an objective and ongoing monitoring role for the region’s progress through the ASU Indicators Project