Themes

Strategic Objective: Act as one university, connected by shared identity and purpose, and adapt with speed to create lasting impact to improve the human condition.

Strategic Outcomes:

1. Present a clear and unified identity grounded in our commitment to our health, human services, and law professions focus, and our mission to improve the human condition.
2. Align resources and decisions with our mission, vision, core values and strategic plan through collaboration, improved efficiencies, and accountability.
3. Expand recruitment and enrollment by highlighting the value of UMB academic programs and developing professional pathways for future students.
4. Elevate UMB’s presence and voice to strengthen health, legal, and human service systems that sustain Maryland communities.

Strategic Objective: Students, faculty, and staff are engaged and connected with equitable access to resources to thrive academically and professionally to contribute within and beyond the University community.

Strategic Outcomes:

1. Attract, develop, and retain an exceptional workforce committed to advancing health, justice, and human well-being and support their growth and professional development.
2. Enable students to achieve academic excellence and progression through coordinated academic, social, and financial resources that prepare them for meaningful careers and societal impact.
3. Advance the holistic well-being of our UMB community through accessible resources, innovative strategies, and a vibrant, engaging campus environment that supports connection, creativity, and shared experiences.
4. Cultivate belonging, trust, and shared responsibility for all members of our community, including our alumni, to contribute to advancing UMB’s mission and core values

Strategic Objective: Prepare learners to adapt, grow, and lead in professions that are evolving and in roles that have yet to be defined, developing them not only as experts in their fields but as leaders and innovators shaping the future of care, justice, and human services.

Strategic Outcomes:

1. Advance interprofessional, clinical, and practice-based learning that prepares graduates to lead within evolving workforce systems, including advancing interprofessional models of education and building leadership capacity across professions.
2. Create flexible and innovative curricular pathways, including stackable learning and micro-credentials, that support lifelong growth in public-serving health, law and human services professions.
3. Empower faculty and staff to develop the futuristic skills needed to leverage emerging technologies, novel pedagogy and practice models, and evolving professional competencies.
4. Expand partnerships with professional communities and employers to sustain and strengthen Maryland’s workforce across health, legal, and human service sectors.

Strategic Objective: UMB will elevate, sustain, and grow research and scholarship excellence.

Strategic Outcomes:

1. Advance interdisciplinary, practice-informed discovery that promotes innovation and health impact, prioritizing areas where UMB can make outsized contributions.
2. Strengthen research and scholarship infrastructure and efficiency to enable growth, innovation, collaboration, and sustained excellence.
3. Foster strong and sustainable research talent at UMB by recruiting, developing, and retaining leading researchers across diverse and promising areas of expertise.
4. Expand clinical, translational, and community-engaged research that enhances public trust and advances shared priorities.
5. Diversify and strengthen external partnerships and expand industry, international, and philanthropic sponsored research

Strategic Oobjective: UMB will accelerate innovation and digital transformation in a rapidly changing technological landscape.

Strategic Outcomes:

1. Provide resources for faculty, staff and students to gain digital literacy with emerging technologies for teaching, research, and service delivery, including awareness of data security, privacy, and responsible data stewardship.
2. Expand use of UMB’s technology infrastructure, including secure research environments, streamlined technology transfer pathways, and responsive support systems to catalyze innovation and support faculty, staff, and students.
3. Advance ethical and responsible use of emerging technologies, including generative and agentic AI, to improve organizational efficiencies and generate novel approaches in teaching, research, community and clinical practice, and operations.
4. Incentivize institutional innovation by providing the support needed to experiment, learn, and scale.

Strategic Objective: Advance global and community engagement excellence by cultivating trusting, high-impact collaborations in concentric circles starting with our Baltimore neighbors to national and international communities and partners.

Strategic Outcomes:

1. Deepen and sustain a diverse portfolio of reciprocal, high-impact partnerships in Baltimore and across municipal, regional, national and international contexts.
2. Expand experiential learning in local and global settings to create equitable opportunities for students to engage meaningfully with communities and partners.
3. Enhance and support faculty and staff capacity for community and global engagement through professional development and strengthening of related structures, processes and outcomes.
4. Measure and communicate UMB’s impact with local and global communities.