 Related to the Planning Principles, the goals represent the collective sense of what the planning process will achieve: a "home" for the academic community, and a place for people to teach, learn and gather. These are the fundamental characteristics of the Plan: Develop a Clear, Understandable Concept for Organizing the Campus
Establish an Articulated Hierarchy of Spaces and Paths
A Humane Campus in Scale, Function and Materials
A Framework for Growth
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The organizational concept must incorporate the heritage of the University
while providing for the future - a new image for the University of Connecticut.
Without an existing organizing influence, the need to develop
a clear concept for the campus is paramount, one that grows from the
"respect" for the existing physical and institutional environment and
an understanding of future needs. The concept must, in the end,
be very simple. It is this simplicity that can endure future constituencies
whose efforts, even endeavoring to enact the concept, are nevertheless
born of their own particular and more immediate concerns. Its
clarity will serve to emphasize the mutually beneficial results. 
The
spaces and paths establish a sense of place and community for the University.
We understand who we are in relationship to understanding where
we are. Our sense of well being is dependent upon an active knowing
of our connection to the whole. We are part of something larger
than ourselves. A clear expression of this hierarchy reinforces
the community of the University, fosters interaction and nourishes campus
life. 
With every generation of students, a "new" formulation of academic and
institutional ideals evolve. Some are based upon technological
advances and how these will transform the way learning and research
is conducted. Others respond to current trends in the needs of
society. While these developments play an important part in planning
certain aspects of the infrastructure, their influence on the planning
process is tempered by the acknowledgment that there is only one truly
indispensable component of the Master Plan: human beings. It
is then essential that the development of the Plan relies upon planning
and design concepts based upon our physical relationship to the environment:
how we experience the campus when we are in it, move through
it, and interact with others while contained by it. 
A successful
framework builds upon the essential elements of the campus and allows
for new development in accordance with the fundamental organizing principles
for the campus. At the outset, the Plan must be sufficiently realized
to communicate the goals of campus organization. It is most important
to understand the intention of the framework which allows for a creative
solution to the opportunity of additional buildings. Each project
realizes the campus more fully.