Strategic
Plan
UNC Charlotte is a leading urban research university dedicated to transforming lives and communities through accessible, high-quality education. With a strong focus on innovation, scholarship, and real-world impact, the university prepares graduates to lead with purpose in a rapidly changing world.
Our Vision
To be a globally recognized, top-tier research university driving discovery and innovation, while advancing student access and economic mobility, nurturing talent and fostering excellence.
Guiding Commitments
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte comprises a large and diverse community of faculty, staff, students and alumni who, together, pursue the institution’s mission and vision. To frame our actions and shape what’s next, we commit to:
- Academic Excellence: Realizing higher education’s transformational power by providing an exemplary academic experience for all students
- Access and Economic Mobility: Providing education that has profound social and economic value and lifelong impact for students from all backgrounds
- Discovery, Innovation and Creativity: Engaging in inquiry to generate new knowledge, modes of expression, understanding and solutions to society’s most significant challenges
- Community Engagement: Collaborating with local, state, national and global partners to prepare our students to be engaged and effective citizens and to promote the common good through research and service that addresses a broad range of social needs
- Integrity and Respect: Ensuring the highest academic, professional and ethical standards and a collegial culture that invites and includes individuals from different backgrounds, and embraces different perspectives, civil discourse and free expression, where all University members are treated with respect, fairness and dignity
- Environmental and Resource Stewardship: Pursuing solutions to optimize sustainability and resource stewardship
- Performance and Accountability: Utilizing data to inform University policies, programs and actions, and to assess progress through relevant measures