UNLV’s diverse faculty, students, staff, and alumni promote community well-being and individual achievement through education, research, scholarship, creative activities, and clinical services. We stimulate economic development and diversification, foster a climate of innovation, promote health, and enrich the cultural vitality of the communities that we serve.
Up until March 2022, this publication was titled "Top Tier Focus." In March 2022, the Board of Regents approved UNLV's new strategic plan, Top Tier 2.0. This resulted in modifying the name of this publication to "Focus on Top Tier 2.0."
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UNLV Top Tier Focus - Community Partnerships
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Community Partnerships stimulate economic development and diversification, foster innovation, and enrich our communities. UNLV has recently joined the ranks of a distinct group of universities recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for outstanding community engagement. This milestone is another important achievement in our Top Tier journey.
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UNLV Top Tier Focus - Our Path Forward in a Time of Crisis
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Top Tier remains our strategic plan, continuing to provide direction for the advancement of the university. Although UNLV currently faces budget reductions that will limit resources available for programs, initiatives, and operations, we must continue to focus on the broader goals of our Top Tier plan. Under these circumstances, we must come together, stronger than ever before, to sustain our forward momentum.
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UNLV Top Tier Focus - Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Our Top Tier journey is to achieve excellence in research, education, and community impact. Top Tier Focus is designed to provide regular updates on progress toward our Top Tier goals.
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UNLV Top Tier Focus - Student Achievement
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Our Student Achievement goal is focused on student success. While retention and graduation rates are key indicators, we recognize the importance of academic and co-curricular learning experiences. We educate students and offer experiences that prepare them for success in their personal, civic, and professional lives.
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UNLV Top Tier Focus - Community Partnerships Theme/Goal
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Community partnerships stimulate economic development and diversification, foster a climate of innovation, and enrich the cultural vitality of the communities we serve.
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UNLV Top Tier focus - Infrastructure and Shared Governance Theme Goal
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
UNLV continually develops and leverages the conditions necessary for success, which includes an effective organizational structure, an improved infrastructure, a service- oriented culture, meaningful faculty engagement in shared governance,and the capacity for informed decision-making and informed risk-taking.
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UNLV Top Tier Focus - Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
UNLV achieved Carnegie R1 designation in December 2018, placing us in the top 130 out of more than 4,000 U.S. higher education institutions. This designation is critical to our research mission, and our Top Tier goal is framed broadly to include not only research, but scholarship and creative activity, speaking to the depth of programming we offer.
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UNLV Top Tier Focus - Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Theme/Goal
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Research, scholarship, and creative activities are central to our mission at UNLV. Our faculty members, informed by their own scholarship and research, have profound knowledge of their subject matter, and creative activities manifest themselves in word and product – contributing to the many facets of the university.
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UNLV Top Tier Focus - Student Achievement
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Our Student Achievement goal involves retention and graduation rates, but also includes other academic and co-curricular learning experiences. We create productive members of society as we educate students that are prepared for success in their personal, civic, and professional lives.
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UNLV Top Tier Focus - Student Achievement Core Theme/Goal
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Our Top Tier journey is to achieve excellence in research, education, and community impact. Top Tier Focus is designed to provide campus with regular updates on progress toward our Top Tier goals.
