Welcome to UMD

We are so happy to have you as a part of our UMD Community! We want to share with you UMD's mission, vision, and values. As new members of the UMD Bulldog Family, your students are an inherent part of ensuring these values are realized. 

Our Mission

The University of Minnesota Duluth integrates liberal education, research, creative activity, and public engagement and prepares students to thrive as lifelong learners and globally engaged citizens.

Our Vision

UMD will be agile in pursuing a dynamic future that builds upon our strengths and successfully confronts evolving challenges and opportunities. UMD will deliver an array of academic programs and student experiences that capitalize on our excellence and impact, as well as our scholarly strengths and external partnerships. In this way UMD will serve as a platform for success and achievement beyond graduation for students from all diverse and cultural backgrounds. By accomplishing this vision UMD assures that Minnesota has a highly qualified and innovative workforce to meet our future economic, environmental, social, and cultural challenges.

Core Values

Preface: UMD is a community of learners and scholars that promotes student success, provides an enriching experience, and is committed to core values that shape the university and its purpose.

• Learning. We analyze, solve problems, improve processes, and develop new ways of creating, working, and being.
• Discovery. We discover, create, and share knowledge. 
• Engagement. We actively collaborate with each other and the larger community to identify and achieve common goals.
• Inclusiveness. We respect and embrace the diversity of individuals, perspectives, and ideas and promote social justice.
• Sustainability. We balance current environmental, economic, and social needs with those of future generations.
• Innovation. We are an evidence-based and forward-thinking institution that is capable of adjusting to changing demands on the university.
• Integrity. We adhere to the highest ethical standards and take responsibility for our ideas and actions.
• Excellence. We achieve excellence through creativity, continuous improvement, and innovation.