UCF will focus on partnerships and interdisciplinary problem solving approaches. It will leverage its resources and capabilities across academic disciplines to address complex issues. UCF will attract and retain top students, faculty, and staff, and steward its assets efficiently to achieve its goals in a sustainable manner focused on serving the central Florida region.

2. As we chart our course in the coming years, we will
favor initiatives that feature partnerships and
interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving for
the university, the central Florida city-state, and
beyond. All the while, UCF will stay focused on the
sustainability of its people, its resources, and the
environment.

3.  UCF has rich history of successful partnerships…
− Center for Research and Education in Optics and
Lasers (CREOL)
− Institute for Simulation and Training (IST)
− Rosen College
− Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA)
− College of Medicine
− Many others

4.  A purposeful focus of talent and resources across
academic disciplines and using enterprise-wide
capabilities provides an advantageous organizational
model for solving complex problems.
 Academic units, institutes and centers organized as
teams to pursue solutions to significant issues,
questions, and problems can best leverage UCF’s far-
reaching capabilites and confer competitive
advantage to the central Florida city-state.

5.  Attract, develop, support, and retain the very best
students, faculty, staff members, and alumni
 Efficiently steward available assets to achieve
desired outcomes
 Effectively husband existing assets and wisely
pursue new capabilities
 Purposely concentrate resources on key initiatives

6. Be a leader in the city-state by being . . .
AWARE of opportunities,
RESPONSIVE to needs,
and EMPOWERED to act
…in support of the university’s mission, goals, and values.

7.  Sustain bedrock capabilities and continue to be the “people’s
university” (accessible and affordable)
 Champion and support a wide range of scholarship in the
classic disciplines and selected emerging fields of study, and
pursue a rigorous, relevant portfolio of research activity
 Consistently strengthen UCF’s abiding commitment to
inclusiveness, excellence in all endeavors, and opportunity
for all

10.  “serve and lead” the central Florida city-state
 adapt to changing demographics and requirements
 sustain bedrock capabilities; pursue new strengths
 support classic disciplines and emerging fields
 adopt new technologies and instructional methods
 promote partnerships, interdisciplinarity, and
sustainability; foster entrepreneurial approaches
 ensure inclusiveness, excellence and opportunity
for all