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Section 2: University Mission Statement
As one of the four campuses comprising the University of Missouri System, the University of Missouri-St. Louis has served the citizens of the St. Louis metropolitan area since 1963. It shares the University’s land grant tradition and is committed to research and public service. The productive scholars on the campus’ faculty contribute significantly to the theoretical and applied research in their fields. The campus’ business, chemistry, political science, and metropolitan studies programs are already internationally recognized. As it develops, the campus will support other centers of excellence in departments or clusters of departments as the quality of scholarship achieves consistent international recognition. In addition to its role to advance knowledge as part of a comprehensive research university, the University of Missouri-St. Louis has a special mission determined by its urban and metropolitan location and its shared land grant tradition. It works in partnership with other key community institutions to help the St. Louis region progress and prosper. Through its colleges and schools, the campus provides opportunities for all the people of the metropolitan area, including the economically disadvantaged, to receive high quality and accessible liberal arts, career, professional, and graduate education.
Through a careful melding of strengths in scholarly research, teaching, and public service, the University of Missouri-St. Louis plays a leadership role in advancing scholarship; providing quality undergraduate, graduate and professional instruction to the large and diverse numbers of students in the St. Louis area; and contributing to economic development throughout the state and region. In shaping and evaluating its undergraduate curriculum, the University of Missouri-St. Louis fosters intellectual independence, sound judgment, clarity of expression in writing, aesthetic refinement, and sharpened analytical skills. Moreover, the campus provides high quality undergraduate, graduate, and professional instruction to an ethnically, racially, and economically diverse student body. Special efforts are made to fulfill the University’s land grant mandate to serve the working people of the state and, because most of the campus’ graduates remain in the metropolitan area, to enhance the economic development and quality of public (community) service missions are accomplished by on-campus and extension-outreach programs in the College of Arts and Sciences; the Barnes College of Nursing; the Pierre Laclede honors College; the Schools of Business, Education, and Optometry; the Graduate School; the Evening College; and the Division of Continuing Education-Outreach. In addition, the campus’ humanities, fine arts, and performing arts programs enrich the cultural life of the metropolitan area and the University will work vigorously to achieve equal opportunity for all within the campus and broader community through strong equal opportunity and affirmative action policies and grants.
Taken from the University Bulletin - Published by
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