STRATEGIC VISION

The TUCVM will prepare change agents in the fields of veterinary medicine and translational research who will emerge as life-long learners and global leaders.

Overview of Strategic Vision 2021-2026

The College will become a premier, interdisciplinary academic center for health sciences education, research and service with core ethical values that promote academic and professional excellence. Overall, the College strives to:

• Maintain its AVMA COE fully accredited status to advance its longstanding legacy of educating and serving disadvantaged community groups.
• Increase its national and international endeavors on its diversity initiatives and its contributions to promoting academic and professional excellence with passion and compassion.
• Recruit, retain and graduate veterinary students who perform at high passing rates (95% or higher) on national examinations.
• Graduate veterinary and public health professionals who are exceptionally trained and prepared to address problems of the 21st century.
• Promote and advances the One Health concept by building bridges to connect animal health and human health.
• Advance integrative graduate/postgraduate education and research and graduates PhDs in Interdisciplinary Pathobiology, Integrative Biosciences, and MPH Program, all focused on advancing biomedical sciences with emphasis on health priorities of national concern.
• Build bridges across the disciplines especially with the agricultural and food sciences, the physical sciences and the social sciences.
• Use creative strategies in resources development to significantly increase extramural grants, scholarly productivity and leadership.