Strategic Area of Focus:
Educational Excellence

GOALS: Create a learner-centered experience that fosters academic excellence and student success through innovative teaching and high quality academic and student support programs.

How We'll Get There

As our first core value states - students first. That overarching commitment compels us to seek ever-higher degrees of excellence for our students. As part of VISION 2012, UVI will offer high quality, outcomes-based academic programs that are flexible and responsive. Over the next several years, we also plan to accredit all of our professional programs and develop internal standards to assess the quality of programs consistent with best practices. We will increase enrollment by enhancing recruitment, registration, and enrollment related services.

Student success can only come with increased retention and graduation rates, which we will focus on during this strategic plan period. We will pursue ways of creating an engaging, student-centered environment that promotes school spirit and institutional pride. In our never-ending quest for excellence and community relevance, we will also increase scholarly, research, and outreach activities that enhance student learning, respond to community needs, and generate new knowledge that also meets peer-reviewed standards.

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"At UVI, I'm learning exactly what I dream of becoming - a successful hotel or villa owner. It's that personalized. Classes keep getting more hands-on and, I'm meeting new friends from all over the world. At the same time, more students and professors are working together online... the technology is really improving. This is a great time to be at UVI."

Tamica Lawrence '07, Business and Administrtation Marketing major