Overview of University-Wide Priorities

The goals of our $1 billion comprehensive campaign mirror those established in the University's strategic plan for the years 2000 to 2005:

• To create a well-rounded undergraduate experience, enabling students to become globally competitive while fulfilling their intellectual, social, and career objectives
• To achieve premier graduate and professional programs in a significant number of areas, helping to educate tomorrow's top teachers, scholars, and explorers of new worlds
• To foster distinguished research, scholarship, and artistic creation, increasing the UI's impact on our state's economy and quality of life, and touching the lives of people throughout Iowa, the nation, and the world
• To facilitate interdisciplinary interaction in teaching, research, and service, keeping the UI in the national spotlight as fertile ground for new ideas and for innovative solutions to global challenges
• To develop an enriching campus environment that is supportive of the core values of the University - learning, community, responsibility, integrity, and quality
• To enhance the UI's ability to respond quickly to new opportunities by generating increased annual support for UI colleges and other programs, as well as for the UI's vital unrestricted resource, the Iowa Impact Fund

To support these strategic goals, the campaign must achieve the following to benefit UI students, faculty, and staff today and for many years to come. These featured priorities are the centerpiece of the University of Iowa's seven-year (1999-2005), $1 billion comprehensive campaign, called
Good. Better. Best. Iowa: The Campaign to Advance Our Great University.

• Funding 350 new University-wide undergraduate scholarships, so the UI can continue to attract top students, help deserving students and their families more easily afford the UI experience, and ensure that all students have the opportunity to excel in their work.
  Total goal for student support: $172 million
• Creating at least 100 new endowed faculty chairs and professorships, so the UI can recruit outstanding teachers and researchers, and help its faculty do their best work.
  Total goal for faculty support: $214 million
• Building state-of-the-art facilities for teaching and learning, so that students and faculty can learn, teach, and conduct research in an optimal learning environment.
  Total goal for facilities support: $173 million
• Endowing research, service, and cultural outreach programs, so the UI's faculty and students can help unlock the riddles of rivers; better understand the nature of genetic disease; extend arts, humanities, and public health programs into every corner of the state; and provide other essential benefits to Iowa and the world.
  Total goal for program support: $261 million
• Growing unrestricted support through the Iowa Impact Fund, so the UI can respond to -- and create -- opportunities for innovation.
  Total goal for unrestricted support: $30 million
• Sustaining the UI's high level of annual and ongoing support throughout the campaign.
  Total goal for annual support during campaign: $150 million

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