Additional Resources

Strategic Vision and Values: A Framework for the University’s Future

The Strategic Vision and Values framework is a living document that was launched in January 2020. It articulates the university’s vision, values and goals will serve as the foundation for strategic decision making. The vision is to transform lives through research, teaching and public service, with values focused on fostering learner success, discovering and innovating, and growing and advancing partnerships.

UMaine 2025 Commission

In March of 2021, the UMaine 2025 Commission was convened to consider how the context of higher education was being reshaped by noteworthy current events — especially those pertaining to the pandemic, racial injustice, climate change, and the state of civic discourse — and to consider what bold and visionary steps we should take to better serve our students, faculty and staff, our institutions, and our state, as well as to contribute in shaping ways to the national discourse.

Strategic Enrollment & Retention Action Plan

The Strategic Enrollment & Retention Action Plan for the University of Maine and the University of Maine at Machias builds from the numerous recommendations and strategies, forming connections to spheres of action from these other initiatives and provides the means for units, as well as individuals, across the University community to make progress and achieve results. It will ensure that available resources flow to where they can make the greatest difference in the lives of our students.

University of Maine System Strategic Plan

In July 2021, the University of Maine System (UMS) Board of Trustees directed Chancellor Malloy to initiate a system-wide strategic planning process. As distilled from the original charge, the following principles have guided the plan’s development:

  1. Be student-centric in teaching, learning, service, and research.
  2. Express values of sustainability, quality, affordability, and justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  3. Align the UMS mission with the state of Maine’s needs and priorities.
  4. Make bold and transparent decisions based on objective data.
  5. Use cost-effective measures to balance the current and future interests of our students, faculty, and staff.
  6. Maximize each university’s unique strengths while enabling the System to function as a cohesive whole.
  7. Leverage unified accreditation as a tool to produce system-wide benefits.
  8. Modernize aging facilities and improve organizational infrastructure while preserving our history and supporting future strategic initiatives.
  9. Seek input from a diverse and broad set of UMS stakeholders.
  10. Foster a system-wide culture of innovation and collaboration to achieve academic excellence.

The plan will galvanize faculty, staff, students, and other stakeholders to strengthen the System as a whole while honoring the distinctiveness of our universities and law school. Its central goal is to serve our students and our state.

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