The university will provide a learning environment in which faculty, staff and students can
discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit knowledge, wisdom and values to improve the
quality of life for all. The university will guide students to develop an understanding and
appreciation for the complex cultural and physical worlds in which they live and to realize their
highest potential of intellectual, physical and emotional development.
To achieve its mission, the university will:
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Offer broad and balanced academic programs that are mutually reinforcing and emphasize high
quality and creative instruction at all levels.
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Generate new knowledge through a broad array of schularly, research and creative endeavours,
which provide a foundation for dealing with the immediate as well as long-term needs of society.
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Achieve leadership in each discipline, strengthen interdisciplinary studies, and pioneer new
fields of learning.
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Participate extensively in state-wide, national and international programmes and encourage
others in the university system, at other educational institutions and in state, national and
international organizations, to seek benefit from the university's unique educational resources,
such as faculty and staff expertise, libraries, archives, museums and research facilities.
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Strengthen cultural understanding through opportunities to study languages, cultures, the arts,
and the implications of social, political, economic and technological change off campus and
abroad.
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Maintain a level of excellence and standards in all programs that will give them state-wide,
national, and international significance.
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Embody, through its policies and programs, respect for, and commitment to, the ideals of a
pluralistic, multiracial, open and democratic society.