Mission & Vision of Southern Utah University
Our Mission:
Southern Utah University is a dynamic teaching and learning community that engages students in experiential education leading to personal growth, civic responsibility, and professional excellence.
Approved by Trustees 06/24/2016
Our Vision:
Southern Utah University will receive national recognition for its innovations in learning, student success, and providing the best educational experience in the intermountain west.
Approved by Trustees 06/24/2016
Our Core Themes:
Explore
SUU explores diverse ideas, disciplines, skills, cultures, and places.
Engage
SUU creates intentional and transformative learning experiences.
Excel
SUU excels through a commitment to high‐quality outcomes and student achievement.
Approved by Trustees 06/24/2016
In order to fulfill its mission, SUU will:
Increase opportunities for the SUU learning community to explore complex problems and sense of purpose in the region, nation, and world.
- Support student learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom setting.
- Help students, faculty, and staff understand and appreciate varied perspectives and ideas.
- Expand and support collaborative partnerships for learning.
Engage students, faculty, and staff in practices that lead to meaningful learning.
- Provide students with the fundamentals of a modern Liberal Education.
- Provide students with opportunities to design their own learning experiences, connect learning across disciplines, and apply learning to new contexts.
- Optimize SUU’s educational, physical, technological, informational, financial, and human resources to maximize learning.
Foster intellectual and creative engagement within the SUU campus community.
- Enhance student learning environments by integrating teaching, scholarly, and creative efforts.
Lead students, faculty, and staff to successful professional and educational outcomes.
- Increase student retention and graduation rates.
- Increase the number of students pursuing post‐graduate opportunities.
- Support faculty and staff in achieving their professional and personal goals.
Prepare students for responsible citizenship in their communities and countries.
- Involve students in practices that lead to higher participation rates in community service and democratic processes throughout their lives.
Help students develop lives of purpose, fulfillment, and wellness.
- Develop students that are lifelong learners that live fulfilled lives.
Approved by Trustees 06/24/2016