2.1(2) Regents' Statement
The Board of Regents has further refined the mission statement of the University: The state university of Iowa is committed to undergraduate, professional, graduate, and continuing education. To discharge this commitment, as part of its established mission, the University engages in teaching, research, and appropriate extension, health, and other public services. The University is recognized as having a broad mandate in order that it may continue to be a distinguished state university, offering preprofessional courses, the full panoply of undergraduate liberal arts and science courses, graduate and professional work in law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, engineering, and allied fields related to these professional disciplines, as well as social work, business administration, journalism, education (early childhood, elementary, secondary, and higher), library science, and all the liberal arts and sciences. It will offer no major programs in agriculture; architecture; forestry; industrial arts; veterinary medicine; agricultural, aeronautical, or ceramic engineering. It will be characterized by a general orientation toward human growth, the health sciences, the humanities, the fine arts, and the social sciences. It will continue to maintain strong programs in the physical and biological sciences and engineering (IAC [681]12.1(1)).

2.1(3) University Statement
(Amended 9/99; 9/07)

Upon founding The University of Iowa in 1847, Iowa's first legislature entrusted it with a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service. In pursuing that mission today, the University seeks to advance scholarly and creative endeavor through leading-edge research and artistic production; to use this research and creativity to enhance undergraduate, graduate, and professional education, health care, and other services provided to the people of Iowa, the nation, and the world; and to educate students for success and personal fulfillment in an increasingly diverse and global environment.

a. Aspiration. The University of Iowa aspires to attract the most talented faculty, staff, and students; to provide an environment where they can discover and fulfill their potential; and thereby to realize its promise, which is to become one of the ten most distinguished public universities in the country.

(The institution's aspiration originated with the University Self-Study Committee and was first iterated in Building on Strength, the 1987 report prepared for the University's re-accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Universities. The Self-Study Committee ... "strongly reaffirmed" the commitment. In the 1995-2000, 2000-2005, and 2005-2010 strategic plans, the University has continued to express confidence in the motivational value of the University's bold and lofty Aspiration.)

b. Goals.

(1) To create a University experience that enriches the lives of undergraduates and helps them to become well-informed individuals, lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and productive employees and employers.

(2) To cultivate excellent graduate and professional programs, and to advance the research and scholarly enterprise.

(3) To promote excellence in education by increasing the diversity of the faculty, staff, and students.

(4) To strengthen the University's intellectual and community vitality.

(5) To broaden the University's service mission to include stronger partnerships with public constituencies.

c. Core Values. In planning, setting priorities, and carrying out every aspect of its mission, The University of Iowa is guided by seven interdependent commitments:

(1) Excellence,
(2) Learning,
(3) Community,
(4) Diversity,
(5) Integrity,
(6) Respect, and
(7) Responsibility.

The University of Iowa is a community of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends who seek to advance knowledge and foster learning across a broad range of academic endeavors. So that learning and creative expression may flourish, the University takes seriously its obligation to protect academic freedom and free expression; maintain a safe, supportive, healthy, and humane environment; and nourish a system of collaborative decision making based on mutual respect and shared governance. Because diversity, broadly defined, advances its mission of teaching, research, and service, the University is dedicated to an inclusive community in which people of different cultural, national, individual, and academic backgrounds encounter one another in a spirit of cooperation, openness, and shared appreciation.

The University recognizes its accountability to the people of Iowa and the need to exercise responsible stewardship over the intellectual and material resources entrusted to it, including the need to direct those resources to programs and initiatives that are central to the University's core mission. In all that it does, the University measures itself by exacting standards, promotes continuous improvement, honors excellence and high aspiration, and holds its community as a whole to the highest degree of honesty, fairness, and personal integrity.
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2.3(2) Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost Organizational Chart.

2.3(3) Office of the Senior Vice President for Finance and Operations Organizational Chart.

2.3(4) Office of the Vice President for Human Resources Organizational Chart.

2.3(5) Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development Organizational Chart.

2.3(6) Office of the Vice President for Medical Affairs Organizational Chart.

2.3(7) Office of the Vice President for Student Life Organizational Chart.

2.3(8) Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Equal Opportunity and Diversity and Associate Provost for Diversity Organizational Chart.

2.3(9) Office of the Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel Organizational Chart.

2.3(10) Office of Governmental Relations Organizational Chart.

2.3(11) The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) Organizational Chart.

a. UIHC Mission. The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, in compliance with the Code of Iowa, serves as the teaching hospital and comprehensive health care center for the State of Iowa, thereby promoting the health of the citizens of Iowa. The UIHC, in concert with The University of Iowa health science colleges, functions in support of health care professionals and organizations in Iowa and other states by: 1) offering a broad spectrum of clinical services to all patients cared for within the Center and through its outreach programs; 2) serving as the primary teaching hospital for the University; and 3) providing a base for innovative research to improve health care. (See also IC 255.)

2.3(12) University Hospital School Mission.
(See IC 263.9-13.)

2.3(13) Psychiatric Hospital Mission.
(See IC 225.)

2.3(14) State Hygienic Laboratory Mission.
(See IC 263.7.)

2.3(15) Oakdale Campus.
(See IC 271.)

2.3(16) State Archaeologist Mission.
(See IC 263B.)

2.3(17) Center for Agricultural Health and Safety.
(See IC 263.78.)

2.3(18) Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination.
(See IC 263.)

2.3(19) International Center for Talented and Gifted Education.
(See IC 263.8A.)

2.3(20) Child Behavior and Development Institute.
(See IC 263.5.)

2.3(21) Organizational Charts of Colleges.
(See Appendixes.)
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2.4(2)
The President of The University of Iowa is Sally Mason.
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2.5(1)
The Executive Vice President and Provost is P. Barry Butler.

2.5(2)
The Senior Vice President for Finance and Operations is Douglas K. True.

2.5(3)
The Vice President for Human Resources is Susan Buckley.

2.5(4)
The Vice President for Research and Economic Development is Daniel Reed.

2.5(5)
The Vice President for Student Life is Tom Rocklin.

2.5(6)
The Vice President for Medical Affairs is Jean Robillard.

2.5(7)
The Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel is Carroll Reasoner.

2.5(8)
The Interim Vice President for Strategic Communication is Mark Braun.
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2.6(1)
The Director and CEO of UIHC is Kenneth P. Kates.
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