Core Values for Planning

While this plan identifies a number of specific initiatives as optimal strategic opportunities at this time, all programs at the University of Georgia should exhibit the following core values:

• Individual and collective commitment to provide the highest possible quality of teaching, in all of its many forms, to our students.
• Aspiration to achieve the highest levels of research, scholarship and creative expression, and to secure the resources necessary to do so.
• Individual and collective aspiration to become and be recognized as one of America's great public research universities.
• Support for significant international experiences by students, faculty and staff.
• Valuing the academic and human richness provided by cultural and ethnic diversity.
• Commitment to addressing the indispensable role information technology will play in our classrooms and laboratories and the lives of our students.
• Understanding that the strongest "positioning" stance for our individual and collective programs is to 'focus on the fit': The unique set of programs at the University of Georgia, and the relationships between them, are our strongest asset.
• An understanding of and commitment to "the land-grant mission," which in practice ranges from the development of social service delivery programs to the instantaneous analysis of poultry diseases to economic development through technology transfer, and which is most simply expressed as 'service to Georgia and Georgians is our most fundamental mission'.

Updated 12/09/2000