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Strategic Initiative I

Enriching Educational Experiences to Enable Student Success

UTSA's mission statement notes that we are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through research and discovery, teaching and learning, community engagement and public service. Our students are the reason for our existence and the ultimate symbol of our success. We are committed to providing students with a university experience that develops the whole person—academically, socially, and personally. To achieve the status of a premier public research university, we must remain committed to student success at both the undergraduate and graduate level, providing a rigorous educational environment with the academic and other support services. To prepare our graduates to meet the challenges faced by future citizen leaders, we must offer our students opportunities to develop the awareness and skill sets needed to compete in a global environment. Our programs, services, and policies are developed to create a sense of place and belonging within a diverse educational environment that offers our students opportunities to engage the campus, local, and global communities. Together these concerted efforts will significantly improve our graduation rates and contribute to Texas’ degree-attainment goals set forth in Closing the Gaps by 2015: The Texas Higher Education Plan. UTSA has developed six goals to offer enriching educational experiences to enable student success.

Goal 1: Improve student success by strengthening and enhancing undergraduate and graduate educational experiences to increase graduation rates and other measures of student success and learning.

Goal 2: Enhance the educational experience by infusing into our programs the three themes that underpin student success: building programs that meet the needs of a global society, promoting diversity, and fostering transformative leadership.

Goal 3: Develop multidisciplinary and experiential learning opportunities, including research and internships, consistent with the five collaborative areas of excellence in both our undergraduate and graduate programs.

Goal 4: Reduce identified barriers to student success and promote student realization of academic and professional goals as well as personal and social development by aligning our programs, services, and policies.

Goal 5: Support student success by offering a broad array of opportunities for engagement in campus life, including a diverse range of student organizations, intramural and intercollegiate sports, on-campus employment, student governance, cultural and entertainment events, and service to the community.

Goal 6: Integrate global perspectives as an integral part of academic programs, including specific courses and applied experiences, such as study-abroad and exchange programs.