Vision 2020 & the 12 Imperatives

(adopted by campus and the Board of Regents in 1999)

A culture of excellence will be the hallmark of Texas A&M University in 2020. Texas A&M’s energy and boldness will distinguish it, guide its decision-making, and empower it to continue to improve. Texas A&M’s vision for 2020 addresses, through careful and honest analysis, its strengths and weaknesses. It reflects a steadfast determination to build on strengths, eliminate weaknesses, seek opportunities, and face threats creatively and energetically. Texas A&M will create a culture of excellence that fulfills the need for an institution with quality of the first order. In 2020 Texas A&M University will be more distinctive than it is today. That distinctiveness will be created on a foundation of quality that is widely recognized and measured by world standards. Vision 2020 identifies twelve specific areas of focus, which are underscored as well-crafted imperatives that define accepted precepts and goals that the university will target over the course of two decades: