Stanford's Long-Range Vision
Fueled by optimism, ingenuity and a sense of responsibility, we seek to accelerate our purposeful impact in the world.
The scale and urgency of challenges facing us today require that Stanford reach farther and move faster to accelerate our purposeful impact in the world. We need a new way of working that enables us to tackle long-standing issues facing our society and our planet and allows us to be nimble when faced with unexpected threats.
Our Vision amplifies Stanford’s contributions through a new model for research universities: not only accelerating the creation of knowledge, but also eliminating the lag time in translating knowledge into solutions and speeding the transfer of those solutions beyond our walls.
The strategic imperative of embedding ethics in everything we do is integrated across Our Vision, which is focused on:
- accelerating Solutions to the world's most pressing problems
- enhancing our Knowledge of the world and ourselves
- advancing Education for our students, who are determined to make a difference
- supporting our diverse Community of faculty, students and staff, who underlie the university's beneficial impact in the world.
Our Vision Themes
Solutions
Knowledge
Education
Community
“A purposeful university promotes
and celebrates excellence as a means
to magnify its benefit to society.”
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
President
