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Our Priorities

Excellence

Our schools and programs are the foundation for excellence across the University

With seven schools, nearly 12,000 students, six hospitals comprising a leading academic medical center and the nation’s premier optics institute, the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ is a place where the exceptional gets better.

We are a top-tier research institution that knows the importance of engaging across disciplines. Centers of excellence like the ,Ìý,Ìý,Ìý,Ìý,Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌý unite scholars throughout the University.

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We hope the Beal Institute can become well known as a center not only for study and archiving, but for presentation. There isn’t a great film music festival in this country, and there’s no better place to have one than Rochester

Mark Watters
Director, Beal Institute for Film Music and Contemporary Media at Eastman School of Music


Great Universities are defined by their research excellence and academic achievement. Every domain of this institution embodies our motto: Meliora.

Robert Clark
Provost and Senior Vice President for Research

From athletics and libraries to campus infrastructure, the University seeks investment in targeted areas that will power significant advancements in the immediate term.

Athletics and Recreation aspires to be one of the leading non-scholarship programs in the country. Funding for coaching, programs, and facilities will allow us to expand recruiting, competition, and travel.

seeks funds for the Barbara J. Burger iZone, a to-be-built space that will foster innovation and provide students with a collaborative hub where they can develop grand ideas. Support for the Carlson Library will develop technology rich learning areas for research and a makerspace.

seeks to build and balance their permanent collection by securing major gifts from important private collections for the Centennial Sculpture Park and gallery collection displays.

Improvements to campus infrastructure will help three particular schools accelerate their progress.

plans facility improvements that enhance teaching while providing state-of-the-art technology for studying and making music.

will transform its environment by renovating the offices of admissions, career services, and student engagement, creating meeting spaces and fostering deeper collaboration around the student experience.

is focusing on a special care clinic for individuals with developmental disabilities, and separate multidisciplinary clinics.

Other Priorities

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Faculty

Our faculty take on the wicked problems of the world, fearlessly. Support for faculty is fundamental to our continued growth and prominence and helps advance new research and discovery.

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Students

Rochester students share a desire to be themselves, to study what they love, and to make a real difference in the world. Increasing scholarship support for students is critical to our mission.

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Medicine

We are home to thousands of researchers and clinicians who are transforming lives through education, research, and patient care, improving human health in the region and across the globe.

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