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Corresponding actions for Goal 1.A.1:

• Expand online and hybrid offerings in areas where student demand exceeds campus-level capacity while maintaining instructional quality and faculty support.
• Increase access for Washington residents through coordinated enrollment growth across the Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma campuses.
• Preserve access for graduate, professional and doctoral students through intentional enrollment strategies and targeted student support.
• Expand recruitment of students from across Washington’s rural, urban and tribal communities and from a broad range of geographic, socioeconomic and lived-experience backgrounds, including international and transfer students.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.A.2:

• Establish and communicate a clear debt-free education model for Washington undergraduates, including eligibility and affordability expectations.
• Pursue increased financial support for Washington undergraduate students to fully meet demonstrated financial need and advance a debt-free education model.
• Expand need-based financial aid for non-resident undergraduates and other student populations to reduce unmet financial need and student borrowing.
• Grow and coordinate philanthropic, legislative and industry support that reduces financial barriers to participation in fellowships, internships, undergraduate research and other student learning opportunities.
• Increase access to meaningful on-campus student employment opportunities that support academic success and reduce financial burden.
• Ensure enrolled graduate and professional students have access to financial support through a variety of opportunities to increase affordability and support student success.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.A.3:

• Improve timely degree completion by reducing academic and administrative barriers to graduation.
• Increase and strengthen coordinated student access to services across advising, financial wellness, academic support and basic needs programs to meet growing student demand, enhance the undergraduate experience and reduce barriers to student graduation.
• Expand undergraduate capacity in high-demand and capacity-constrained academic programs and areas.
• Increase summer offerings and enrollment to accelerate degree completion.
• Reduce disparities in retention, progression, completion and student experience outcomes across student populations.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.B.1:

• Strengthen institutional policies, processes and technology to support the nimble design, launch and evaluation of strategically selected non-degree and alternative credential offerings.
• Collaborate with industry partners to develop and test strategically aligned short-form custom trainings such as stackable certificates that address workforce needs.
• Broaden workforce-connected opportunities for undergraduate students, including internships and apprenticeships.
• Establish a recurring review process to evaluate workforce demand and align credential offerings with emerging needs.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.B.2:

• Develop and evaluate accelerated bachelor’s-to-master’s degree pathways across UW campuses.
• Improve transfer pathways for learners from community and technical colleges and strengthen course equivalency alignment across the UW.
• Pilot competency-based education to better serve adult and lifelong learners.
• Strengthen pathways and partnerships with K-12 systems, tribal nations, tribal governments and community and technical colleges to improve transition to the UW.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.B.3:

• Develop tools and measures that help students, alumni, employers, policymakers and others understand and communicate the long-term value of UW credentials.
• Develop lifelong learner records and related systems that allow students and alumni to document learning, connect with future learning opportunities and track credentials across their relationship with the UW.
• Expand continuing education, professional learning, workforce development and other lifelong learning opportunities that leverage UW faculty expertise, research strengths and emerging workforce needs to support career transitions, upskilling and reskilling.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.B.4:

• Offer operational support to test workforce-responsive instructional innovation and rapid development of emerging educational models.
• Provide faculty and graduate student instructors with the training, tools and support needed to incorporate emerging technologies into teaching.
• Support faculty and instructional teams in piloting new approaches to teaching, sharing lessons learned and adopting successful practices that build upon the UW’s core elements of effective teaching.
• Establish workload policies and administrative processes that reduce barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration with industry and workforce partners in support of instructional innovation.
• Re-evaluate promotion and teaching assessment processes to ensure they recognize meaningful instructional improvement and educational leadership.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.B.5:

• Establish shared practices, tools and support that enable employers and advisory partners to engage consistently with UW academic programs.
• Strengthen mechanisms for employers and advisory partners to offer ongoing feedback on workforce needs and the preparedness of UW graduates.
• Establish processes for translating workforce and partner feedback into curriculum, program and workforce-development improvements.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.B.6:

• Assess and map undergraduate students’ access to career-connected, high-impact educational practices across the Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma campuses to identify participation gaps and guide expansion efforts.
• Increase student participation in high-impact educational practices by reducing barriers, expanding awareness and strengthening support structures across all three campuses.
• Increase institutional capacity to meet growing student demand for high-impact practices, particularly undergraduate research.
• Ensure equitable access to career readiness staffing for students in all schools, colleges and academic programs.
• Deepen partnerships with employers, tribal nations, public-sector organizations and industry partners to expand career-connected experiential learning opportunities.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.C.1:

• Regularly assess academic programs against emerging societal, workforce and civic needs.
• Develop graduates’ adaptability, ethical decision-making, digital and information literacy and lifelong learning capabilities.
• Design and deliver learning experiences that develop constructive dialogue, collaboration, critical inquiry and problem solving across academic programs.
• Support faculty development in teaching practices that strengthen constructive dialogue, critical thinking, information literacy and civic engagement.
• Implement assessment approaches that evaluate student growth in key learning outcomes and support continuous improvement.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.C.2:

• Evaluate and redesign curricula to expand interdisciplinary learning opportunities.
• Increase interdisciplinary courses, programs and local and global experiential learning opportunities that address complex, real-world challenges.
• Support faculty collaboration in creating and delivering interdisciplinary teaching, research and student experiences.
• Expand opportunities for students to examine complex societal challenges through interdisciplinary coursework and engagement with diverse perspectives.
• Explore and expand portfolio-based and other assessment methods that demonstrate integrative learning and multiple-perspective problem solving.

Corresponding actions for Goal 1.C.3:

• Build on existing community-engaged partnerships and create new opportunities for students to learn alongside local, regional, national and global community organizations on projects that address shared community priorities and public needs.
• Embed civic engagement and public problem-solving opportunities throughout the Husky Experience.
• Assess successful partnership models such as the WWAMI five-state medical education program to identify opportunities for adaptation across disciplines.
• Develop place-based academic programs and learning opportunities that reflect regional priorities and address community needs.
• Remove barriers to student participation in leadership, service, community engagement and other co-curricular experiences.
• Expand and enhance programs that improve student belonging, connection and successful integration into the UW community.