| Strategic Direction 1: | Enhanced Student Access, Progression, and Learning and Development |
| UWF Priority 1.1 | Foster student learning and development to include the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that optimize students’ prospects for personal and professional success. |
| UWF Priority 1.2 | Facilitate students’ access to and choice of the University of West Florida to meet their higher education needs. |
| UWF Priority 1.3 | Improve student persistence and timely progression to degree attainment. |
| Strategic Direction 2: | Distinctive Teaching, Scholarship, Research, and Professional Contributions |
| UWF Priority 2.1 | Respond to the changing needs of the region, state, and nation by investing strategically to support innovative instruction and high-quality, relevant, and distinctive academic and research programs. |
| UWF Priority 2.2 | Recruit, support, retain, and recognize dedicated, high-quality faculty who advance the mission, vision, and values of the University. |
| UWF Priority 2.3 | Build a vibrant culture of scholarship and research that aligns with UWF’s strengths and capacities and supports UWF’s mission, vision, and values. |
| Strategic Direction 3: | Community Engagement and Service |
| UWF Priority 3.1 | Develop, cultivate, assess, and sustain a network of mutually beneficial community partnerships. |
| UWF Priority 3.2 | Advance the economy and quality of life in the region through partnerships with the citizens, businesses, organizations, and communities UWF serves. |
| UWF Priority 3.3 | Expand community awareness, visibility, and support of UWF through its mutually beneficial partnerships. |
| Strategic Direction 4: | Sustainable Institutional Excellence |
| UWF Priority 4.1 | Support and sustain the high-quality services and infrastructure needed to achieve identified UWF priorities. |
| UWF Priority 4.2 | Recruit, develop, retain, and recognize dedicated, high-quality staff members who advance the mission, vision, and values of the University. |
| UWF Priority 4.3 | Maximize the acquisition and deployment of resources, and strategically align and integrate planning, budgeting, assessment, and continuous improvement efforts. |
[1] UWF has not listed its priorities in any ranked order, except for Strategic Priority 1.1, which focuses on student learning and development. The University has numbered the priorities only as a convenience for tracking purposes.