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Draft Vision, Mission and Values - December 13, 2002
(Agenda, Minutes)

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
STRATEGIC PLAN 2003-06

To be adopted by the University Board of Trustees May x, 2003

VISION – Dream, Challenge, Succeed

The University of Kentucky will be one of the nation's top 20 public universities: an institution recognized internationally for excellence in teaching, research, and service outreach; and a catalyst for the intellectual, social, cultural, and economic development of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

MISSION

The University of Kentucky is a comprehensive, public, land grant, research university dedicated to preparing students to become productive members in an increasingly diverse, technological, and global society, to creating knowledge, and to improving the lives of people in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

• Our core mission is undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, professional, and lifelong education informed by scholarship and research, and guided by a spirit of integrity and mutual respect.
• Our research, scholarship, and creative activities promote human and economic development by discovering and sharing new knowledge that will benefit society.
• Our service responsibility is to provide outreach and public service to the citizens of the Commonwealth.  We aggressively seek to collaborate and partner with educators, professionals, businesses, and with healthcare and agricultural interests in and outside the boundaries of Kentucky to create, disseminate, share, and apply knowledge.

VALUES

The values of the University guide our decisions and behavior. We value:

• academic excellence and freedom;
• personal and institutional integrity, ethical behavior, and accountability;  
• personal achievement and team accomplishments through cooperation;
• the creation, synthesis, application, and teaching of knowledge;
• lifelong learning;
• the extraordinary education of our students and the success of our alumni;
• our graduates who are uniquely prepared to live in and shape a global society;

• the personal and professional development of our students, faculty and staff;
• mutual respect and civility, open communication, and collaboration;
• an environment that nurtures respect for the individual within an atmosphere of inclusiveness, diversity and human dignity;
• service to individuals, organizations, and communities;
• the continuous improvement of programs, services, and processes;
• the pursuit of best practices that facilitates the implementation of innovation;
• a state-of-the-art administrative, physical, and technology infrastructure;
• outstanding effort