University Strategy 2035 – Creating Opportunity, Transforming Futures

Dear student,

Today marks an important date in the University’s recent history as we officially launch our new University Strategy 2035: Creating Opportunity, Transforming Futures.
 
Over the past six months, we have collectively explored how we can continue to build on our rich heritage whilst also looking ambitiously to the future.
 
During the consultation and the many conversations, it became clear that the University’s overriding objective is to make a positive difference for the future - for our students and staff, for our city and region, for the nation, and across the globe where our international presence is growing.
 
It also reaffirmed our identity as a civic institution, powered by our sense of place and strengthened by our connections to our local and global communities.
 
This commitment is reflected in our new Vision to ‘Create opportunity, transform lives, and work to build a more inclusive, productive, and sustainable society’.

Our new Strategy will ensure that together we will:

• Create opportunity – providing the widest possible access to high quality education and support the creation of highly skilled jobs.
• Develop people – the skills and capabilities of our students and staff, embracing diversity and employability to further enhance career success.
• Shape the future – ensuring our learning, research and knowledge exchange creates a fairer, more productive and sustainable society.

You can find out more about Strategy 2035 on our website at wlv.ac.uk/strategy-2035, where you can download a copy of the document and and watch a short video.

Alternatively, from Thursday 2 May, you can pick up a hard copy from our Strategy 2035 stands, which you will find located:

• at City Campus outside the Refectory/Canteen area in Millennium City Building, in the Den at the Students’ Union, in the reception area of Wulfruna Building;
• at Springfield Campus by the main entrance in the School of Architecture and Built Environment;
• at Walsall Campus in The Boulevard; 
• at Telford Campus in the reception of the Angad Paul Building.

Please do take time to read it and discuss it with your friends and family.

Best wishes,

Professor Ebrahim Adia
Vice-Chancellor