We reward the bold and impactful ideas of our faculty and students and encourage their efforts toward a healthier, more sustainable world.

Strategies

• Make a Lasting Commitment to Research Excellence: As an R1 institution, we will continue to grow our research enterprise, strengthen our research infrastructure, and elevate our status among the nation’s premier research universities.
• Prioritize an Enduring Pursuit of Liberal Arts: Produce and enhance knowledge that drives curiosity and innovation, making UVM nationally recognized as a time-honored leader in democracy, sustainability, ethics, and health, and a trailblazer in emerging and urgent fields of inquiry.
• Create Collaborative Solutions to Contemporary and Complex Challenges: Generate solutions that benefit from diverse perspectives and move beyond traditional disciplinary and geographic boundaries. Promote inter- and intra-disciplinary partnerships in our academic, creative, and research pursuits.
• Transform Practice and Policy through Discovery and Innovation: Develop infrastructure that shortens the arc from research and creative scholarship to use in relevant fields. Engage in teaching and research that ensures our books will be read, our art appreciated, our technologies commercialized, and our practices and policies implemented throughout the region, the nation, and the world.
• Accelerate the Innovative Impact of Emergent Technology: Boldly innovate responsible uses of new technologies in ways that expand our ability to do our most important work. With a focus on ethics, equity, the environment, and disciplinary standards, critically and openly examine artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies to guide their use, understand their limits, and unlock their potential.