Mission Statement
The University of Texas at Arlington is a comprehensive research, teaching,
and public service institution whose mission is the advancement of knowledge
and the pursuit of excellence. The University is committed to the promotion
of lifelong learning through its academic and continuing education programs
and to the formation of good citizenship through its community service learning
programs. The diverse student body shares a wide range of cultural values
and the University community fosters unity of purpose and cultivates mutual
respect.
As a University, we affirm our commitment to the following objectives:
- The University is committed to comprehensive programs of academic research.
This research effort requires attracting and retaining scholars who promote
a culture of intellectual curiosity, rigorous inquiry, and high academic
standards among their fellow faculty and the students they teach.
- The University prepares students for full, productive lives and informed
and active citizenship. To that end, we have developed undergraduate and
graduate curricula and classroom practices that engage students actively
in the learning process. Outside the classroom a wide range of student
organizations and activities contribute to the learning environment. Our
service learning
program offers students the opportunity to supplement their academic study
with internships in a variety of community settings, testing their skills
and aptitudes and challenging their values. State-of-the-art teaching technologies,
distance education, and off-site instruction afford access to off-campus
as well as traditional students. Non-degree certificate and continuing
education programs offer practical, aesthetic, and intellectually stimulating
opportunities
for community learners, for individual courses or a sustained program of
study.
- The mission of a university can be achieved only when its students, faculty,
staff, and administrators value and promote free expression in an atmosphere
of tolerance, responsibility, and trust. The University regards these attributes
as prerequisites for any community of learners and vigilantly strives to
maintain them.
- Mindful of its role as a resource to the community, locally, nationally,
and internationally, the University continually seeks partnerships with
public and private concerns in order to advance the economic, social, and
cultural
welfare of its constituencies. We serve the needs of the North Texas
community by sponsoring public lectures and academic symposia, as well as
artistic,
musical, and dramatic productions.
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