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Mission Statement

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Mission Statement

51³Ô¹ÏÍø's education prepares each individual for a reflective life, fulfilling careers, and transformative leadership in a world of change.

Strategic Thinking

Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

Preamble:  51³Ô¹ÏÍø empowers students to develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills that foster an  appreciation of education as a process as well as a creative product.  The University is committed to educating the full person through rigorous and sustained academic study and meaningful co-curricular experiences.  Students will engage in the integration of knowledge across disciplines and reflect on their intellectual, social, and personal development to interact with a dynamic world.  

Institutional Learning Outcomes: A 51³Ô¹ÏÍø student (undergraduate, graduate, and theology) will ….

  • Develop Skills and Literacies (skills)  
    • STATEMENT:  Develop skills and literacies (e.g. writing, reading, oral, digital, quantitative, qualitative) to communicate effectively within the changing world.  
  • Acquire Knowledge  (content)  
    • STATEMENT: Acquire disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge (content and skills), in both breadth and depth to engage with the world in an informed manner.  
  • Broaden Perspectives (attitudes) 
    • STATEMENT: Recognize diverse perspectives (e.g. personal, social, cultural, global, historical, intellectual, experiential), values, attitudes, and experiences within different contexts to expand the scope of one’s own worldview. 
  • Cultivate Critical Questioning (question/analysis) 
    • STATEMENT: Cultivate intellectual curiosity and solve problems by critically questioning, evaluating, and integrating ideas to navigate the shifting representations of the social and natural worlds.  
  • Create and Engage (application) 
    • STATEMENT: Create expressions of knowledge and ideas, and engage with the broader world in a reflective and impactful manner (e.g. through leadership, civic engagement, research, artistic production). 

Note:  These are not mutually exclusive.  For example, reflection, creativity, and interdisciplinarity are in many (possibly all) of these.