Vision and Strategic Goals

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"Penn State strives to create transformational experiences for students, faculty, and staff across our twenty-four Commonwealth Campuses and online World Campus.

President Neeli Bendapudi has established a vision for Penn State central to advancing our land-grant mission to be a unique source of education, success, and lifelong opportunity for students from all walks of life; professional achievement for our faculty and staff; and an engine of research, discovery, and economic development for Pennsylvania, the nation, and world.

Our community works together to enhance the University’s:

  • Purpose—We differentiate ourselves as a land-grant university by uniquely serving the commonwealth and beyond.
  • Agility—We are an institution that quickly adapts to dynamic needs of our people and society.
  • Opportunity—We leverage our knowledge and expertise to pursue opportunities and drive meaningful outcomes."

Penn State is pursuing the following goals and priorities over the next five years.

  1. Enhance student success
  2. Grow interdisciplinary research excellence
  3. Increase land-grant impact
  4. Foster diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging  
  5. Transform Penn State’s internal operations
  6. Transforming Health Through Academic and Clinical Synergy

“Focusing on our purpose, increasing our agility and leveraging our opportunity will be the core drivers of the future of our great University. We must build on our legacy as Pennsylvania’s only land-grant university and our foundational purpose of serving our commonwealth, our nation and our world. We must be agile to meet the needs of our students, an evolving workforce, the commonwealth and, indeed, humanity. We must rise to meet the opportunities before us, to continue preparing our students for lifelong success, to continue solving the world’s most pressing problems through cutting-edge research, and to continue living our 21st-century land-grant mission.” 

 

References

1Presidential Vision and Goals Links to an external site.

2Penn State Today: Purpose, agility, opportunity: President Bendapudi shares vision for Penn State Links to an external site.