We embrace and support learners from everywhere to become lifelong members of the UVM community and contributors to Vermont’s well-being and common good.

Strategies

• Broaden Access: Open doors and build pathways for learners of all backgrounds and cultures (e.g., new, traditional, working, veteran, international, and returning learners) with flexible curricula and modalities, including robust online options.
• Expand Our Partnership Network (Local and Global): Extend collaborations with external partners—creating innovative projects that advance and convey knowledge, stimulate new insights, ensure the health of our society, contribute to workforce development in Vermont, and impact the world.
• Amplify Belonging, Dialogue, and Civic Life: Build a university culture of belonging and a sense of community in which everyone matters, providing opportunities for all to listen across difference through civic discourse and intercultural dialogue. Integrate these practices in support of recruitment, retention, and engagement within and beyond campus.
• Improve Affordability and Access to Resources: Expand institutional, community, and state capacity to meet students’ financial and social needs through the provision of affordable tuition and creative and collaborative solutions that result in increased access to on- and off-campus resources related to food, housing, emergency aid, and health.
• Celebrate Athletic, Creative, and Intellectual Excellence at UVM: Support broad community participation in the arts, athletics, academic lectures, professional conferences, and other outward-facing activities, leveraging UVM’s strengths to unite students, the Vermont community, supporters, and alumni around the world.
• Share UVM’s Story: Communicate our stories with authenticity, rooted in faculty, staff, student, alumni, and partner voices. Invite engagement and partnership to add new perspectives and enrich our history.