2016 - 2020 战略计划

使命: The University of 南 Alabama, with a global reach and special focus on the Gulf Coast, strives to make a difference in the lives of those it serves through promoting discovery, health, and learning.

核心价值观: The University of 南 Alabama affirms the following core values as essential to the accomplishment of its mission:

• Diversity and a Global Perspective
• 卓越
• Freedom in the Pursuit of Knowledge
• 完整性
• Transparency and Participation in Decision-Making

愿景: The University of 南 Alabama will be a leading comprehensive public university internationally recognized for educational, research, and healthcare excellence as well as for its positive intellectual, cultural, and economic impact on those it serves.

基本活动: While the 战略计划 highlights those areas of work upon which the University will place special emphasis, success in any area is dependent also upon effectively engaging in the following activities:

• Engaging and developing faculty and staff and supporting their efforts in advancing the mission and priorities
• Being fiscally responsible
• Meeting our development and fund-raising targets
• Implementing our marketing and communications strategies
• 与校友互动

The University of 南 Alabama 战略计划 is organized around five institutional 优先级:

• 1. Student 成功 and Access
• 2. Enhancement of 研究 and Graduate Education
• 3. 全球合作
• 4. 卓越 in Healthcare
• 5. University-社区参与

Student 成功 and Access: To develop, implement, and assess initiatives and practices to ensure all students are offered the resources, structure, and relationships necessary for high-quality learning, academic persistence, and degree completion.

• 目标1.1: Increase the persistence, progression, and degree completion of undergraduate 还有研究生.
•  
• 目标1.2: Ensure students are meeting learning outcomes established by the faculty.
•  
• 目标1.3: Ensure recruitment and admission of a high-quality, diverse student body that is well prepared for college study and representative of the racial/ethnic, gender, and social class diversity of the region.
•  
• 目标1.4: Increase students’ access to a diverse faculty and staff among whom students may find exemplars and mentors.
•  
• 目标1.5: Increase faculty and student engagement through excellence in instruction, advising, and academic/professional mentorship.
•  
• 目标1.6: Offer student programming that increases student engagement with the University and meets co-curricular learning outcomes established by Student and Academic 事务.
•  
• 目标1.7: Provide a safe and civil 环境.
•  
• 目标1.8: Increase enrollment in a fiscally responsible manner while strengthening academic standards for admission.

Enhancement of 研究 and Graduate Education: To increase USA productivity in discovery, research, scholarship, and creative activities and ensure excellence in graduate education.

• 目标2.1: Increase resources and infrastructure to support faculty research and 学术活动.
•  
• 目标2.2: Increase the recognition for excellence of graduate programs.
•  
• 目标2.3: Increase opportunities for undergraduate 还有研究生 to participate with faculty in research, discovery, and creative activities.
•  
• 目标2.4: Provide support for Health System and University partnerships in inter-disciplinary collaborative research projects, grants, contracts, and translational research projects.
•  
• 目标2.5: Increase the number of regional, national, and international collaborations in research, scholarly, and creative activities.
•  
• 目标2.6: Advance entrepreneurial activities that support the development of 新技术.
•  
• 目标2.7: Increase the dissemination and impact of research and scholarship produced by USA faculty and postdoctoral fellows on Mobile, nationally, and internationally.
•  
• 目标2.8: Increase faculty participation in making application for and securing 外部资金.

全球合作: To strengthen the connections and collaborations between the University and the larger world by enhancing faculty, staff, and students’ international experiences and their understanding of other societies and cultures among faculty, staff, and students.

• 目标3.1: Increase the diversity of the international student body.
•  
• 目标3.2: Increase the incorporation of global perspectives into the educational 环境.
•  
• 目标3.3: Increase engagement with international businesses and organizations especially those with a local presence.

卓越 in Health Care: To actively participate in research, to educate healthcare professionals, and to be the region’s leader in patients’ access to care, outcomes, and satisfaction by providing healthcare that uses an interprofessional approach, is efficient, and is informed by research and education

• 目标4.1: Achieve exceptional patient quality and satisfaction for the USA Hospitals, Clinics and the Mitchell Cancer Institute in comparison to peer groups.
•  
• 目标4.2: Adapt to reimbursement changes based on patient outcomes and value to provide financial stability and a quality teaching 环境.
•  
• 目标4.3: Ensure excellence in the educational outcomes for health professionals.

University-社区参与: To define, support, and strategically advance the University of 南 Alabama's commitment to ongoing, permanent, sustainable, and mutually beneficial partnerships with the 它所服务的社区.

• 目标5.1: Increase experiential learning opportunities for USA students in the private and public sectors.
•  
• 目标5.2: Increase strategic engagement of faculty, staff, and students with business, government, non-profit and other organizations directly involved in regional economic, civic, and cultural development.
•  
• 目标5.3: Increase University outreach to encourage community participation in 大学生活.