Faculty of Science

Strategic Plan

Improving Our World Through Science

UBC Science's strategic plan for 2021-2026

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Home to science at one of the world’s top public universities, UBC Science brings together a community of students and scholars internationally recognized for their commitment to advancing human knowledge and understanding, through invention, discovery, learning, and innovation.

Improving Our World Through Science is UBC Science's strategic plan for 2021-2026. It articulates the Faculty’s five-year strategic plan around four core areas: people, research, education and engagement. 

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Vision & Mission

We renewed our vision and mission to reflect our aspirations, reinforcing the central importance of research and education and highlighting amplified attention to the UBC Science community, teamwork, and externalization.

Vision & Mission

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Core Objectives

We have articulated the UBC Science plan around four core areas: people, research, education, and engagement. Consistent with UBC's university-wide strategic plan, this framework helps ensure attention to our community, relationship-building, continued academic development, and renewal.

Core Areas & Objectives

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Our Progress

To advance objectives across the plan’s core areas of people, research, education and engagement, the Faculty provides strategic funding and guidance to members of the UBC Science community in related areas. See how the Faculty is bringing the plan to life.

Our Progress

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Download the Strategic Plan

We have renewed our vision and mission to reflect our aspirations, reinforcing the central importance of research and education and highlighting amplified attention to the UBC Science community, teamwork, and externalization.

Musqueam First Nation land acknowledegement

We honour xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam) on whose ancestral, unceded territory UBC Vancouver is situated. UBC Science is committed to building meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples so we can advance Reconciliation and ensure traditional ways of knowing enrich our teaching and research.

Learn more: Musqueam First Nation

Strategic Plan

Program Contact
Deborah Watt
watt@science.ubc.ca

Faculty of Science

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