People | George
Davis
Considerations of Academic Mission Purpose
and Objectives
Purpose:
To discover and preserve new knowledge through
creative scholarship; to prepare students to become engaged and contributing
members of a modern global society; and to extend practical wisdom
beyond the university to the community, state, nation, and world;
with the overall goal of helping to achieve self-realization for
individuals and for society as a whole.
Objectives:
To achieve and sustain excellence in research, scholarship, and creative
endeavor through the combined work of individual efforts and team efforts
within individual disciplines as well as individual and team efforts
that cut across programs and disciplines.
To create learning environments and to carry out teaching in ways
that our students are informed and inspired by the fundamental research
mission, the core of which is a faculty fully engaged in cutting-edge
research, scholarship, and creative endeavor.
To strategically apply research, scholarship,
and creative endeavor to society, locally, statewide, regionally,
and globally, thus connecting the excellence and passion we have
to offer with society’s most
pressing needs and requirements, both with respect to economic development
and quality of life.
To enhance the diversity of our university – to be evidenced
in our people, programs, curricula, values, & communication networks
-- knowing that our success and impact as a university in the 21st
century will require unambiguous expression that we are part of a diverse
state, regional, and global community.
George H. Davis
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