Redoubling our Commitment to Academic Excellence & Distinction

About Pillar 1

The College will reinforce its commitment to academic excellence—the heart of its mission—to recruit and retain outstanding students and faculty, facilitate students’ exploration of who they are and how they seek to embody their intellect and values in the world, and prepare students for professional and personal success at graduation and beyond. 

Key Initiatives

• Shifting to a teaching load of two classes per semester
• Reorganizing and streamlining advising with a clear mandate to increase retention and graduation rates
• Increasing faculty-student research partnerships
• Bringing more intention to external academic distinctions for faculty and students, including competitive national fellowships
• Aligning graduate and undergraduate education more intentionally
• Building a library of the future to serve as the intellectual and cultural heart of the campus. 

Review Initiatives in Progress

Our Ultimate Goal

Success will be reflected in Bryn Mawr graduates gaining the academic grounding, skills, and habits of mind to thrive in an increasingly turbulent postgraduate environment, with the capacity to function globally, critically, and analytically throughout their lives.