Campus Priorities

Strategic Roadmap

This academic year (2025-26), the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) is creating a roadmap that will align with UMD’s mission, vision, and values and the five imperatives of the University of Minnesota strategic roadmap, Elevate Extraordinary 2030.

2024-2025 Academic Year

UMD's current strategic priorities center around the campus’ commitment to student success, belonging and inclusion, and discovery and inquiry. 

Student Success Initiative (SSI)

During the 2023-24 academic year, a team of faculty, staff, and students came together to review best practices, examine previous data and efforts, and identify areas of exploration that will ultimately lead to better student outcomes in and out of the classroom. This work resulted in an SSI report of recommendations, which was presented to the senior leadership team (view the presentation).
 

The recommendations highlight ways to expand our student scholars’ access to high-impact practices that lead to transformative education and student success, build upon some promising practices in advising already deployed at UMD, and consider ways to build strong and intentional collaborations across the campus to advance student success. The campus will also consider professional development opportunities that orient us to see all students through an asset-based lens, with a focus on the strengths that every student we admit brings to their learning and our community.   

Chancellor’s Council on Campus Climate (4C)

Ensuring a diverse, welcoming, and inclusive campus community is core to UMD's values and priorities. The Chancellor’s Council on Campus Climate worked to review previous and current campus climate efforts and prepare a recommendations report for campus leadership. You can find the campus climate survey reports on the Office of Equity and Diversity Campus Climate website. 

Everyone on campus plays a role in our campus climate, including important commissions such as the Commission on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity, Commission for Women, Commission on Disabilities, and Commission QT. UMD's Campus Climate website provides information and resources for our campus community. The commissions above are open to all members of our campus community.