Our Mission

To create, integrate, transfer and apply knowledge.

Our Objective

To sustain and strengthen our position of preeminence in research and higher education.

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Building Value for the People of Wisconsin

Our Strategic Priorities and Goals for 2007-09

• Amplify the Wisconsin Idea
• Promote Research
• Advance Learning
• Accelerate Internationalization
• Nurture Human Resources
• Enhance our resources and their strategic use

Amplify the Wisconsin Idea

Goal 1. Foster the core value of the Wisconsin Idea and service to the state.

For more than 100 years, a core value of UW–Madison has been the Wisconsin Idea — the principle that the boundaries of the campus are the boundaries of the state and beyond. Under the new Wisconsin Idea Project, the university will conduct community research on how UW–Madison can strengthen existing and create new partnerships that provide tangible benefits to state citizens, better document how our work impacts the state, and provide increased opportunities to create meaningful interactions between the university and state constituents, including partnerships with UW System institutions.

Goal 2. Promote the development of new outreach efforts and partnership programs in the sciences, arts and humanities.

We can contribute to quality of life for citizens of the state and world. We will expand our efforts through programs such as the Science Alliance, the Wisconsin Book Festival, Odyssey Project, Humanities Forums on Contemporary Issues with the Dane County Library System, Teacher Enhancement Programs in Biology Education and the Institute for Biology Education.

Goal 3. Address the growing health care crisis in the state.

A growing number of citizens in our state have limited access to basic health care needs. Our university will work to expand the health care workforce, especially in underserved rural and central city areas. We will apply our expertise in developing policies and approaches that will lead to the greatest efficiency and effectiveness in resource utilization. Our research programs will lead the way in developing new approaches for preventing, diagnosing and treating disease.

Economic Development

Goal 1. Expand campuswide entrepreneurship.

UW–Madison has been given the opportunity to build a unique entrepreneurship initiative within the context of the Wisconsin Idea. A Kauffman Foundation grant will be used to educate students about the principles and practices of entrepreneurship, connect newly educated students with technology and ideas that can evolve into new ventures, and increase availability of investment funding to start, grow and sustain companies that our entrepreneurs create. This program, once honed at the campus level, will serve as a model and will be expanded to UW System campuses statewide, with an early focus in Milwaukee.

Goal 2. Increase funding for research commercialization efforts.

One of the major challenges in the commercialization of university technology is the funding needed to advance early-stage inventions to a point that they can be licensed to industry. We will seek additional funds to help more researchers move their technology forward to a point where industry or other investors are willing to fund commercialization.

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