Major Strategic Goals FY2005–09

1. Ensure a sustainable, shared commitment to academic excellence throughout our academic medical center.
   
   
2. Create educational opportunities that build upon and nurture the leadership interests and abilities of our students and faculty members.  Recruit and support an increasingly outstanding complement of students, residents, and faculty members.
   
   
3. Recruit 100 net new tenure track faculty scientists. Double the size of life sciences graduate training programs.
   
   
4. Encourage departments, centers, and institutes to invest in research and education programs that build upon our significant interdisciplinary and clinical strengths.
   
   
5. Develop the infrastructure to support current programs and planned growth including
   
   » completing the productive occupancy of more than 225,000 net square feet (nsf) of new and renovated research facilities.
   
   » planning construction of a 16-story tower for the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center of Northwestern University.
   
   » completing more than $62 million in planned capital improvement projects
   
   » supporting the selection, design, and implementation of major infrastructure improvements at Northwestern University.
   
   
6. Generate enthusiasm for the school's future on the occasion of its sesquicentennial. Continue to develop an enterprise that anticipates, embraces, and leads change.