Enduring Values
Several elements from our Project 21 report remain essential for current planning. Three enduring values remain a focus.
We must attract and retain an excellent faculty.
To compete with the nation’s best universities, we must attract scholars who are the best in their field and who hold the greatest potential for creating knowledge that will transform the world. To that end, we must be able to recruit outstanding young scholars to tenure track positions and attract more senior, proven academicians who value the unique learning environment we offer here. Once at Washington University, we must be able to retain these faculty members.
We must attract and enroll outstanding students.
Students are at the heart of Arts & Sciences' mission. We have made noteworthy strides in
attracting over 14,000 undergraduate applications each year in Arts & Sciences, with the admission rate in 2006-07 being 16%. However, our pursuit of the world’s most accomplished students (undergraduate and graduate) is increasingly difficult. We must attract an ever- stronger and diverse applicant pool and provide compelling reasons for them to matriculate each fall.
We must have world-class academic programs.
Arts & Sciences is characterized by its interdisciplinarity: beside a range of traditional academic departments, we offer exciting programs that create intellectual synergy at the intersection of disciplines. We must continue to build on these programs, and envision new opportunities, as we maximize our close physical and intellectual proximity to the other Danforth Campus schools and the School of Medicine.
Several elements from our Project 21 report remain essential for current planning. Three enduring values remain a focus.
We must attract and retain an excellent faculty.
To compete with the nation’s best universities, we must attract scholars who are the best in their field and who hold the greatest potential for creating knowledge that will transform the world. To that end, we must be able to recruit outstanding young scholars to tenure track positions and attract more senior, proven academicians who value the unique learning environment we offer here. Once at Washington University, we must be able to retain these faculty members.
We must attract and enroll outstanding students.
Students are at the heart of Arts & Sciences' mission. We have made noteworthy strides in
attracting over 14,000 undergraduate applications each year in Arts & Sciences, with the admission rate in 2006-07 being 16%. However, our pursuit of the world’s most accomplished students (undergraduate and graduate) is increasingly difficult. We must attract an ever- stronger and diverse applicant pool and provide compelling reasons for them to matriculate each fall.
We must have world-class academic programs.
Arts & Sciences is characterized by its interdisciplinarity: beside a range of traditional academic departments, we offer exciting programs that create intellectual synergy at the intersection of disciplines. We must continue to build on these programs, and envision new opportunities, as we maximize our close physical and intellectual proximity to the other Danforth Campus schools and the School of Medicine.
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