Vision Statement for a University

Mission Statement:

To provide students with the world's best undergraduate education in
engineering, mathematics, and science in an environment of individual
attention and support.

Vision Statement:

To be the best undergraduate engineering, mathematics, and science
educational institution in the world.

Now clearly this isn't the vision statement for SIU, it is the mission of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN. After reading this, I went hunting for the SIU Mission Statement. A search on the SIUC website for "mission statement" shows one for the Cycling Club.

My hunted around just a little and found this 2020 Report. If the Rose-Hulman statement is an example of a good mission statement, the SIU 2020 Report is clearly the way to not do a mission and objective.

In Silicon Valley they talk about an elevator speech, you know what you are going to tell someone about your company while riding up an elevator. The elevator speech for SIUC is we are going to build a new football stadium and the students don't study (or are bad).

I think SIUC could use a Mission Statement and Vision Statement about being great. That huge unreadable report is worthless to almost all humans dealing with SIU.