Our Vision:
Southern Utah University will be nationally recognized as a premier regional university where exemplary faculty and staff, personalized learning and academic integrity, enable students and graduates to honor thought in all its finest forms and to excel in life.
Our Mission:
Southern Utah University, as our founders envisioned, is a dynamic teaching and learning community inspired by its unique natural surroundings. As Utah's designated public liberal arts and sciences university, SUU engages students in a personalized and rigorous experiential education, empowering them to be productive citizens, socially responsible leaders, high achievers and lifelong learners.
Our Core Themes:
Academic Excellence:
With superior teaching and engaged learning as its foundation, academic excellence is the hallmark of Southern Utah University. Students are expected to meet the challenges of rigorous programs of study offered at SUU. Unique experiential education programs and dedicated faculty promote both critical and creative thinking and scholarly activity in a supportive learning environment. SUU is committed to sustaining an academic community that encourages students to develop their breadth and depth as scholars and global citizens. SUU supports faculty and staff development designed to respond to the changing demands of higher education and the needs of its students. Assessment of learning outcomes and continual improvement are key elements of the educational experience at SUU.
With superior teaching and engaged learning as its foundation, academic excellence is the hallmark of Southern Utah University. Students are expected to meet the challenges of rigorous programs of study offered at SUU. Unique experiential education programs and dedicated faculty promote both critical and creative thinking and scholarly activity in a supportive learning environment. SUU is committed to sustaining an academic community that encourages students to develop their breadth and depth as scholars and global citizens. SUU supports faculty and staff development designed to respond to the changing demands of higher education and the needs of its students. Assessment of learning outcomes and continual improvement are key elements of the educational experience at SUU.
Involvement and Personal Growth:
Southern Utah University encourages student growth and development by providing opportunities and programs designed to broaden social and cultural perspectives through campus and community service, and outdoor, creative, and global engagement activities. The University affirms that active participation in well-designed experience-based programs provides a holistic educational experience and helps prepare students to become engaged members of society. SUU is committed to helping students become confident, creative, and adaptive life-long learners known for their service to the community.
Southern Utah University encourages student growth and development by providing opportunities and programs designed to broaden social and cultural perspectives through campus and community service, and outdoor, creative, and global engagement activities. The University affirms that active participation in well-designed experience-based programs provides a holistic educational experience and helps prepare students to become engaged members of society. SUU is committed to helping students become confident, creative, and adaptive life-long learners known for their service to the community.
Community and Social Responsibility:
Essential to the educational process is a sense of an academic community wherein collaboration, diversity, respect for all people, concern for the environment, civility, and shared governance are cultivated. SUU encourages the discussion and exploration of differing views while recognizing the cherished individual freedom to reach one's own conclusions. Developing students into productive responsible citizens, both locally and globally, involves the thoughtful exploration and application of ethics and values and the acknowledgment of the responsibilities one has as a contributing citizen of the world
Essential to the educational process is a sense of an academic community wherein collaboration, diversity, respect for all people, concern for the environment, civility, and shared governance are cultivated. SUU encourages the discussion and exploration of differing views while recognizing the cherished individual freedom to reach one's own conclusions. Developing students into productive responsible citizens, both locally and globally, involves the thoughtful exploration and application of ethics and values and the acknowledgment of the responsibilities one has as a contributing citizen of the world
Approved by Trustees 06/17/05
Approved by Regents 08/18/05
Approved by Regents 08/18/05
In order to fulfill its mission SUU will:
- Emphasize excellence in learning designed to foster critical thinking, effective communication, lifelong intellectual curiosity, global awareness, personal responsibility, and integrity
- Offer educational experiences typical of private universities with the affordability of public higher education
- Provide outstanding programs of study in the arts and sciences, pre-professional, professional, and graduate studies
- Contribute to state, regional, and community needs as a social, cultural, and economic catalyst
Harness and integrate our unique geographic location in the SUU educational experience
