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Continuous Improvement Plan

Our Mission

Provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. The Drake experience is distinguished by collaborative learning among students, faculty, and staff and by the integration of the liberal arts and sciences with professional preparation.

Our Inspiration

Together we transform lives and strengthen communities.

Our Identity

  • We Lead: Setting the standard with extraordinary achievers, scholars, and leaders—where dreamers are doers.
  • We cultivate belonging: Embracing differences to strengthen our community.
  • We empower human connections : Fostering authentic relationships that create transformational opportunities.
  • We are proudly of our place: Celebrating our neighborhood, our city, and our many partnerships.
  • We are distinctively global: Connecting the world to our university and our university to the world.

Strategic Plan

Providing exceptional learning opportunities and programming to fulfill Drake’s mission by meeting the needs of those we serve, including students, alumni, and the many communities of which we are a part.

  • 98.5%
  • 50% 
  • 29.6% of Drake's undergraduates are students of color.

Building on our successes and seizing opportunities for improvement through the pervasive assessment of Drake’s educational and operational effectiveness in achieving its mission.

Implementing and executing administrative processes in order to deliver on Drake’s mission efficiently and effectively.

Developing and sustaining our resources – human, financial, and material – in order to fulfill the commitments of Drake’s mission.

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