Our Strategic Framework
This 2021-2026 Strategic Framework describes a vision for elevating CBE’s excellent work and expanding our outreach and recognition. While our community reflects a diverse range of methodologies and disciplines, we’re working towards a common goal: the realization of a more just and beautiful world.
Our Implementation
As we shift to implementation, continuing and expanding engagement will be critical to our success. Working groups have been finalized and are starting to implement their plans.
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Our Vision, Mission, Pillars
Our Vision
We imagine a just and beautiful world where we teach, research, and engage to influence the trajectories of climate change, social justice, and human health, by defining built environments as complex interconnections between constructed and natural worlds and their impacts on society.
Our Mission
CBE believes in:
Education that expands students’ knowledge by tapping into professional expertise to ground in disciplinary strength while confidently crossing boundaries to tackle broad social and personal concerns.
Research that accelerates knowledge that drives action, and cultivates bold thought leadership grounded in historical perspectives, evidence-based approaches, technological innovation, and creative design thinking across the disciplines of the built environment.
Engagement that co-creates processes for planning, designing, building, and investing in environments by welcoming expertise of citizens/community members and others with diverse backgrounds and a wide range of lived experiences.
Our Pillars
CBE is guided by three pillars: collaboration and impact, bold thought leadership, and equitable and just practices.
COLLABORATION AND IMPACT
Today’s grand challenges require our full range of disciplinary skills and expertise including the core ability to work with others. Our students, faculty, and staff bridge, complement, and integrate effectively across disciplinary boundaries within CBE and with our academic, industry, regulatory, governmental, and community partners.
BOLD THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
The built environment is one of the most powerful levers – as both the cause of and the solution for – influencing the planet’s most urgent social and environmental problems. Through our fluency in collaborative and interdisciplinary processes, we lead decisions about the built environment which are critically important to positive change.
EQUITABLE AND JUST PRACTICES
As the built environment powerfully affects individual and community well-being and prosperity, we are changing the patterns that have resulted in underrepresentation and exclusion of people based on their identities. To achieve justice, diversity, and inclusion, we continue to model and foster equitable practices within the College and in our partnerships with others.