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Shaping Stony Brook's Future

Crafting A Shared Vision for Stony Brook University

Our Key Pillars Begin With ABC

What should we aspire to? How can we achieve these aspirations together? The very foundation of education begins with these letters and makes it easy to remember the key pillars of our strategic vision for the next decade, including:

‘A’ stands for accelerate: accelerate our excellence in research, education, healthcare, and service to our communities and beyond.

B’ stands for build: build new facilities to support our research and education mission, build our faculty and student populations to educate more New Yorkers and to advance the frontiers of knowledge in more dimensions, and build on Stony Brook’s successes to further elevate our excellence and impact. 

‘C’stands forcatalyze, which is about leveraging our research excellence and remarkable people to ignite innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth, from Manhattan to Montauk and throughout the great state of New York.

These three pillars, ABC, A – accelerate, B – build, C – catalyze are the foundation of our blueprint for not simply driving impact and innovation, but super-charging it, accelerating enduring excellence now and long into the future.

Town Hall Focuses on Crafting a Cross-Campus Vision

President Andrea Goldsmith led a cross-campus town hall discussion on October 21, 2025, the first of a series of events designed to discuss and design a shared vision for Stony Brook’s future.

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Join President Goldsmith at the next Virtual Town Hall

Monday, November 17, 2025 from 12:30-2:30 pm

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