Fearlessly Forward
IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE AND IMPACT FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD
Overview
THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND IS AN EXTRAORDINARY PLACE—VIBRANT AND DYNAMIC AND DIVERSE.
We are a place of learning, a school dedicated to the art and science of education and committed to reimagining teaching and learning inside each classroom and community.
We are a campus dedicated to the indisputable value of science and innovation, freely and creatively and rigorously exploring the work of thousands of researchers and discoveries in hundreds of laboratories, libraries, and collaborative spaces. Situated just a few miles from the nation's capital, our university is a place where new knowledge is pursued, discovered, and championed.
We are a community, nearly half a million members strong, of diverse students, faculty, staff, and alumni—a place where thousands come to work every day to make a difference. Our diversity is integral to our excellence, and ours is a community intrinsically connected to our surrounding neighborhoods, our state, our nation, and our world.
The University of Maryland remains, since our founding, an institution of change and progress, and a proud land-grant flagship campus dedicated to the public good.
Our university is evolving faster than at any moment in its storied history. Our guiding principles are helping us to empower the next generation of leaders, artists, writers, educators, scientists, and global citizens to develop creative solutions to the grand challenges of our times.
New Strategic Plan Initiatives
We reimagine learning and teaching as inclusive, experiential, publicly engaged, creative, integrative, holistic, and empowering.
We Take On Humanity's Grand Challenges
Our education, research, scholarship and creative activities, and service are designed to accelerate solutions to humanity's grand challenges—within our communities and around the globe.
We Invest in People and Communities
We invest in people, their well-being and advancement, and the conditions that support their ability to fully participate and thrive in our community, state, and world.
We Partner to Advance the Public Good
We will create and sustain partnerships that allow our research to have impact locally and globally, our education to prepare students for civic engagement and impact, and our service to create solutions for a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient world.
To improve the lives of every person on Earth, we will reimagine teaching and learning; accelerate solutions to the grand challenges of our time through creativity and discovery; and forge a diverse, innovative campus community where excellence is celebrated and equity is relentlessly pursued. Together, we will dedicate ourselves to advancing the public good because our individual well-being is enduringly bound to our collective well-being.
Our Vision
We must be united in our noble and fearless purpose. Because celebrating differences and leveling societal inequities must be among our greatest strengths, the grand challenges that define today's ideas and actions are felt not just in individual achievement, but in our collective accomplishments.
FEARLESSLY FORWARD IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE AND IMPACT FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD, THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND STRATEGIC PLAN presents a bold reimagining of what our university must be—to serve our state, our humanity, and the world.
President Darryl J. Pines
FEARLESSLY FORWARD IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE AND IMPACT FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD: THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND STRATEGIC PLAN is a living document and will evolve and grow as we do. Please visit this site to follow our progress as we move fearlessly forward. Text Version