Together Duke

 

Together Duke, our university’s academic strategic plan, was approved in May 2017 and is being implemented university-wide.

 
The university’s overarching vision for the next decade is to “grow, connect, and empower diverse and inclusive communities of excellence to enhance the creation, delivery, and translation of knowledge for a rapidly changing world.” We will attain this vision through programming and activities that support three core themes, outlined below. Visit the Together Duke website to view the full plan, as well as the history, goals, and current initiatives.
 

 

Together Duke

 
View the full Academic Strategic Plan.

Theme 1: Inquiry and Discovery

We will:

  • renew our emphasis on fundamental inquiry and discovery across campus
  • provide faculty with new avenues of support for research
  • invest in technologies and research spaces to allow world-class science to flourish at Duke
  • extend collaborative efforts, constructive criticism, and community input
     

Theme 2: The Duke Opportunity

We will:

  • provide all students a transformative educational experience
  • promote the wider application of the best pedagogical innovation
  • adopt models for collaborative learning across all University learner platforms
  • create an ethos of community-based learning that can be extended to all scholarly inquiry across the campus
  • ensure all students have the right to inclusion, respect, agency, and voice in the Duke community

Theme 3: Global Engagement, Locally Grounded

We will:

  • address issues that cross borders while strengthening our traditional emphasis on place-based engagement
  • work with local communities across the globe to meet 21st-century challenges
  • inform work on related problems at local, national and global levels
  • embody engagement as a two-way street, in which society and the academy learn from mutual encounters
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Previous University Strategic Plans (since 1970)

Strategic Plan Year President Provost
Summary Report of the University Planning Committee 1972 Terry Sanford John Blackburn
Planning for the Eighties 1978 Terry Sanford Frederic Cleaveland
Directions for Progress 1980 Terry Sanford William Bevan
Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Planning for the 1990s 1988 Keith Brodie Phillip Griffiths
Shaping Our Future: A Young University Faces a New Century 1994 Nannerl Keohane John Strohbehn
Building on Excellence: The University Plan 2001 Nannerl Keohane Peter Lange
Making a Difference: The Strategic Plan for Duke University 2006 Richard Brodhead Peter Lange
Together Duke: Advancing Excellence through Community 2017 Richard Brodhead Sally Kornbluth