2016-2021 Strategic Plan - College of Veterinary Medicine
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2016-2021 Strategic Plan
Our Mission Build a globally diverse and inclusive community to improve the health of animals, humans, and the environment. This will be accomplished by discovering and disseminating new knowledge and skills, educating current and future veterinarians and scientists, and providing innovative veterinary services. Our Vision To be a global leader in advancing education, health, and research at the interface of animals, humans, and the environment.
Our Values
SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE COLLABORATION
We are first and foremost about the discovery, We proactively develop and support
integration, application, and dissemination of partnerships with individuals and organizations
new knowledge. that share our scientific, professional,
educational, and policy interests.
TEACHING AND LEARNING
Our education is rooted in cutting-edge ACCOUNTABILITY
science and delivered with learner-focused We hold ourselves to the highest ethical
techniques that instill leadership skills, ethical standards. We take responsibility for our
standards, and a capacity for lifelong learning. actions in all facets of our work. We strive
continuously to enhance our programs and
PEOPLE services. We measure our effectiveness and
we report our progress.
We respect and support our colleagues.
We are dedicated to developing skills and
expertise, and promoting inclusion for varied LEADERSHIP
opinions, backgrounds, and perspectives. We lead by influencing and contributing
to science, animal welfare, food animal
agriculture, the veterinary profession, and the
intersections of animals, humans, and the
environment.
Our Goals
Advance One Medicine
One Science—
the science behind One Health at
the interface of animals, humans and
the environment.
Stimulate a research culture that embraces Enhance the health and well-being of
scholarship, rigor, discovery, diversity, and animals and humans, and advance
innovation; and energizes, recruits, retains, biomedical and translational research
trains, and rewards outstanding faculty, by developing and studying disease
trainees, and staff. pathogenesis in comparative and
Strengthen core research support, facilities,
spontaneous animal models.
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and infrastructure; facilitate team science Promote the health of livestock, wildlife,
to advance signature research programs, humans, and the environment, and address
community engagement, and outreach that the critical nodes where they intersect with
integrates with the education and service one another to improve food safety and
missions of the college.
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security.
Detect new zoonotic and other emerging
infectious diseases; investigate relationships
* Signature Research Programs
between pathogens, microbiomes, their
hosts, and the environment; and develop
measures for disease prevention and
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control.
Educate the next generation of
veterinarians and scientists for lifelong
career success and leadership in an
evolving profession.
Recruit and admit students with diverse Stabilize support for and efficiently
attributes and interests that contribute to operate postgraduate programs.
the success of the profession and reflect
Strategically implement new training
the needs of a rapidly changing society.
programs consistent with workforce
Provide an excellent veterinary needs and CVM priorities.
education that anticipates and leads
change within the profession, optimizes
clinical and other experience-based
education, and supports student well-
being and professional success.
Provide preeminent leadership in
service delivery.
VETERINARY MEDICAL CENTER CENTER FOR ANIMAL HEALTH AND
roduce career-ready veterinarians through
P FOOD SAFETY
exposure to a large, diverse, relevant clinical reate strategic partnerships with key
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caseload; innovative clinical instruction; local, national, and global partners from
excellent patient care; and good practice academia, industry, and government to
management and customer service. advance leadership capacity building and
address food system challenges.
stablish a sustainable future for the VMC
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by leveraging strategic areas of growth, eliver world-class public health
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improved efficiency, diversity of revenue educational programs for veterinarians and
streams, collaborative partnerships, and other professionals working at the human,
stewardship of donor relationships. animal, and environmental interface.
oster a culture of discovery that embraces
F onduct applied research that is solution-
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and leverages the VMC’s role in defining the oriented, practical, and meets the needs of
future of veterinary medicine. critical stakeholders.
rovide high-quality public health and
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THE RAPTOR CENTER
preventive medicine services for internal
rain future leaders in raptor medicine and
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ecosystem health to build global capacity to
address health challenges in raptors and our VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY
shared environment.
ontinue to be a local, national, and
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Promote ecosystem health by creating a international leader in animal disease
research program that focuses on current surveillance, analysis, and genomic
and emerging issues and its application to medicine.
conservation efforts.
e the recognized leader in veterinary
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Increase stewardship of our environment diagnostics training locally, nationally, and
through public outreach, and building a internationally.
national reputation for education around
xpand engagement with veterinary
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raptors and a sustainable natural world.
practitioners, food animal producers,
government agencies, private industry,
nongovernmental organizations, and other
universities to identify and solve problems.
Achieve operational excellence
to support the college’s teaching,
research, and service missions.
Improve efficiency of processes; Promote a diverse and inclusive
develop strategies to create time- culture where engaged employees
saving measures for faculty and staff are rewarded for their efforts, and
to improve operational efficiency; and incentives, such as professional
increase transparency and ease in development opportunities, are aligned
operational processes. with the achievement of organizational
goals.
Ensure effective employee and
stakeholder communication and Provide support and training for
develop strategies for integrating operational excellence by developing
multiple communications efforts. metrics that measure and support
organizational goals.To view the College of Veterinary Medicine’s complete 2016-2021 Strategic Plan, the progress we’ve made, and how you can help: z.umn.edu/cvmstrategicplan
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