The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee is a vital and distinctive public university that maintains a high-quality academic program supported by outstanding faculty and academic staff. The University provides a positive culture that supports students and their learning. UWM’s strong programs in basic and applied research demonstrate a robust commitment to the city of Milwaukee, its surrounding region, and the state of Wisconsin. UWM seeks to enhance its reputation as a premier research university focusing on engagement with its community while providing excellent teaching, learning, scholarship and research.
As UWM anticipates its future, the institution and its stakeholders can build upon two initiatives put in place over the past few years:
- The Milwaukee Idea seeks to forge lasting community-university partnerships within the Greater Milwaukee area. It brought together hundreds of people from the community and the University to identify and implement critical projects. These partnerships focus on teacher preparation and enriched urban classrooms, healthy communities, cultural diversity, and economic development.
- Investing in UWM’s Future is a long-range Investment Plan to strengthen UWM’s position as a premier research university. Endorsed in 2000 by all governance groups within the University, the plan outlines major new intellectual and capital investments needed by UWM. These investments seek to focus and strengthen the core activities of teaching, research, and service.
These initiatives and others express the University’s vision, focus, and momentum. Now, the opportunity and challenge is to chart the next stage in UWM’s ascent as a preeminent research university focused on linking research and teaching to the region’s economic, cultural and intellectual needs in the 21st Century.
