Key metrics and priorities

A strong strategic plan requires clear and measurable goals to track progress, measure success, or signal the need for a strategic or resource shift. Within the "Our Moment in Time" strategic plan are a number of key metrics and priorities related to our mission and vision. 

• Become the top R1 university for social mobility.
• Increase undergraduate, master's, professional and certificate enrollments, with an overall enrollment goal of 28,000.
• Launch a campus-wide initiative to recruit, support and further educational attainment of people with partial college educations. 
• Increase overall six-year graduation rate to 60%. 
• Increase historically marginalized student six-year graduation rate to 50%.
• Increase graduation rates for community college transfers to 60%.
• Narrow the minority achievement gap.
• Launch the university's next comprehensive fundraising campaign.
• Increase endowment to $750 million.
• Advance two to three places in rankings for overall research expenditures. 
• Expand the Office of Multicultural Student Engagement to include campus development of spaces and initiatives that support the wide diversity of races, cultures, creeds and orientations. 
• Develop new facilities to support leading-edge health sciences education and research.