Our Goals and Commitments
GOAL 1:
Grow the diversity of the faculty, broadly conceived, to advance excellence in teaching and learning
Our Commitments
- We will strengthen and expand diverse pipelines to the professoriate, challenging traditional practices and creating pathways to identify, attract, and retain outstanding faculty.
- We will cultivate a culture of excellence, innovation, and inclusion in which faculty from all backgrounds are welcomed, valued, supported, and empowered to thrive, contribute, and lead.
- We will invest in faculty success throughout their UMBC experience, providing purposeful onboarding, mentoring, and professional development.
GOAL 2:
Develop and support pedagogical technologies and innovative, inclusive approaches to teaching and mentoring
Our Commitments
- We will modernize accessible learning environments, technology, and infrastructure that enables innovative and inclusive teaching and learning.
- We will advance a culture of excellence that rewards and integrates outstanding teaching and mentoring with research, scholarship, and creative achievement.
GOAL 3:
Make the integration of academic learning, research, community engagement, and career-connected experiences a hallmark of a UMBC education, and grow doctoral education into a distinctive strength of UMBC
Our Commitments
- We will expand global learning and engagement, developing the cultural fluency, perspectives, and empathy our students need in an interconnected world.
- We will examine and renew our curriculum to keep pace with a changing world, integrating emerging fields, interdisciplinary approaches, and experiential learning.
- We will set a course for the future of graduate education at UMBC, supporting an inclusive environment for graduate study and strengthening career pathways from it.