<h2>Achieving the Vision: SIUE’s Long-Term Goals<br /></h2>
<p>The primary focus of SIUE’s long-term goals is student learning. Achieving the following goals will help students become lifelong learners and effective leaders in their professions and communities:</p>
<p><strong>Engaged Students and Capable Graduates</strong>—Attract a diverse student body, including traditional, non-traditional, commuter, and residential scholars, and nurture, educate, and graduate students who achieve the objectives for baccalaureate, graduate, and professional degrees.</p>
<p><strong>Innovative High Quality Programs</strong>—Develop, deliver, and continually improve high quality academic programs appropriate for a metropolitan university.</p>
<p><strong>Committed Faculty and Staff</strong>—Recruit and support a diverse faculty and staff known for providing the highest quality educational opportunity, scholarship, and service.</p>
<p><strong>Harmonious Campus Climate</strong>—Foster a harmonious student-centered campus characterized by integrity, cooperation, open dialogue, and mutual respect among individuals with different backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives.</p>
<p><strong>Active Community Engagement</strong>—Achieve an integral and indispensable relationship with Illinois and the St. Louis metropolitan area; work cooperatively within SIU to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts.</p>
<p><strong>Sound Physical and Financial Assets</strong>—Develop, maintain, and protect the university’s assets in a financially, aesthetically, and environmentally responsible manner.</p>
<p><strong>Excellent Reputation</strong>—Participate and excel in actions that earn national recognition for quality.</p>
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