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Impactful Partnerships

Strengthen partnerships and community engagement.

Four-Year Objectives

  1. Broaden strategic partnerships that leverage CVM’s unique strengths and resources.
  2. Enhance global health programs that positively impact the world through education, research, and patient care.
  3. Expand outreach programs and services to the community
  4. Increase CVM’s national and international visibility

Strategic Plan in Action

See our progress as of January 1, 2026

66

Faculty in regional and national leadership positions

9

Faculty and Staff Won National Scientific Society Awards

Expanded Partnerships

Everycat Foundation
Marble’s Children’s Museum Ready Set Vet
North Carolina Center for Poultry Education
North Carolina food Animal Initiative
Equine Scholars Program.

VIEW A STORY BELOW TO SEE HOW WE ARE LIVING OUR STRATEGIC PLAN

A blonde, female veterinary resident smiles at the camera inside a greenhouse habitat at the North Carolina Zoo.

Her Workplace is a Zoo — and an Exotic Animal Clinic and Several Aquariums

As an NC State zoological medicine resident, Dr. Lauren Mumm helps in healing thousands of exotic and aquatic animals across North Carolina while researching improvements for these creatures’ care.

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A person holding a red wolf.

Howlelujah! Critically Endangered Red Wolf Pups Join NC State’s Pack

Fewer than 30 red wolves live in the wild, all inside the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge on the coast of North Carolina. With its world-class veterinary clinicians and facilities just hours away, the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine plays a vital role in the federal Red Wolf Recovery Program.

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A person working with a goat.

Rural Scholars Take North Carolina’s Livestock Veterinarian Shortage by the Horns (and Hooves)

An NC State College of Veterinary Medicine program debuting this summer pairs vet students with livestock veterinarians in rural areas of North Carolina to build students’ skills, create connections and address a statewide care deficit.

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