Core values

• Empowering our students to fulfill their academic and professional passions in a University that is diverse, welcoming, and inclusive for all students, faculty and staff.
• Offer broad and balanced academic programs that are mutually reinforcing and emphasize high quality and creative instruction at the undergraduate, graduate, professional and postgraduate levels.
• Generate new knowledge through a broad array of scholarly, research and creative endeavors, which provide a foundation for dealing with the immediate and long-range needs of society.
• Strengthen cultural understanding through opportunities to study languages, cultures and the implications of social, political, economic and technological change and through encouragement of study, scientific research off campus and abroad.
• Maintain a level of excellence and standards in all programs that will give them national and international significance.