On Wednesday, the George Mason University Board of Visitors received a report on the progress the university has made toward achieving the goals set forth in Mason’s 10-year strategic plan.
The report included strides toward reaching $225 million in annual research expenditures by 2024, graduates reporting an above 90 percent rate of satisfaction with their Mason educational experience and Mason doubling its number of active-learning-designated classrooms since fall 2017.
The report covers innovative learning, access, return on investment and the other goals detailed in the plan, which originated in 2014 and went through a university-wide updating process in 2017.
In sharing the report at the BOV meeting in Merten Hall, Mason President Ángel Cabrera noted that the original strategic plan set a goal of earning a Tier 1 designation from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education within 10 years. Mason has earned back-to-back R1 designations as one of the country’s most research-intensive universities, first in 2016 and again in 2018.
“Overall, we’re making very good progress, especially on the goals that were perhaps the most ambitious and, at first sight, the most difficult to accomplish,” Cabrera said.