Purposeful, Student-Centered Leadership
As a private university deeply committed to the public good, DU plays an important role within higher education. We have a responsibility to serve, to engage and to enrich our communities and the world around us. In the years ahead, I look forward to all the ways we will fulfill that mission.
As I take on the University’s leadership in my first year as Chancellor, I’m indebted to all who have brought us to this moment, including our former chancellors, dedicated campus leaders, trustees and benefactors. I’m honored to have the chance to work with you to fulfill the vision this community has imagined through our strategic plan, DU IMPACT 2025, and to make the University of Denver all it can be. It is a pivotal time in higher education, and DU is well prepared to lead and grow.
This coming year, our community will have many opportunities to learn together, work together and talk together. I look forward to the chance to hear your visions for our collective future.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Haefner
Together, we create our future
Strategic Imperatives
Informed by DU IMPACT 2025, our five strategic areas prioritize our grandest ambitions. They align our work with how we want DU and the campus community to grow and evolve so we may continually better serve our students and produce knowledge that improves society.
Leadership
Through a system of shared leadership, the offices of the chancellor and provost, the board of trustees, the chancellor’s cabinet and the deans work together to ensure the institution’s sustainable future and commitment to the university’s mission.
We Will DU Better
In January 2020, DU students and alumni bravely began sharing their stories of sexual assault and gender violence. These stories were disturbing, gut-wrenching and deeply impactful. This movement is a call to action. Our culture must change.
University leadership has met with students, faculty experts, external experts and alumni. With their input, we have developed a detailed and comprehensive action plan to help make DU a safe campus—a safe community—for everyone.
It is our responsibility to address the enormous harm caused by sexual assault and gender violence. We start by listening to survivors, and then we take action.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Creating a diverse and inclusive community isn’t only the right thing to do; it’s critical to the successful implementation of our mission. The greatest challenges facing us in the century ahead are incredibly complex and will require diverse teams who can work collaboratively and innovatively.
“What I believe makes DU stand out is our history of strength and resilience. From our early years until now, this community has never shirked from challenge. In fact, we have always used challenge as opportunity.”
Chanceller Haefner New Student Convocation, 2019
Community + Values
DU is exploring what it means to be an academic community. We will create and participate in collective experiences while striving to understand how best to evolve our culture and systems and re-examine our values.
DU IMPACT 2025
Born from the ideas, aspirations and vision of the entire campus community, DU IMPACT 2025 is our north star, a bold declaration of what we know we can achieve. Through our strategic plan, DU will continue to lead by transforming the student experience, championing cross-discipline collaboration, engaging with partners locally and globally, and coming together as OneDU.
78 Countries of origin for DU students
12:1 Student:Faculty Ratio
77.5% of DU undergrads who study abroad
Nineteen
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Messages from Leadership
February 2020
I’m proud to join the campus this year in celebrating Black History Month. For much of American history, the achievements of our black community members have gone unrecognized. This robs far too many of their rightful place in our halls of fame, history books and collective memory. -
Messages from Leadership
January 2020
Over the coming months, which will be busy, I look forward to using this space—my Nineteen newsletter—to keep in touch with you about what I’m thinking, where the University is going, and how you can get involved. -
Messages from Leadership
November 2019
One thing that distinguishes this university from so many others is its strategic plan, DU IMPACT 2025. The plan, and all we have accomplished so far, is a tribute to so many of you who have devoted yourselves to this ambitious, rigorous effort to build on DU’s strengths.
