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 Statement
of Purpose
Belmont University
is a student-centered Christian community providing an academically challenging
education that enables men and women of diverse backgrounds to engage
and transform the world with disciplined intelligence, compassion, courage
and faith.
- Belmont University
is student-centered.
The University provides opportunities for the student to develop intellectually,
spiritually, socially, and physically through experiences of leadership
and collaboration, of success and failure and of choice. Faculty, administration,
and staff commit themselves to guide and to challenge students to develop
their full potential in order to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
- Belmont University
is a Christian
community. that presents Jesus as the Christ and as the model
for personal behavior. Students are encouraged to commit themselves
to high moral standards and to discover Christian values basic to wholesome
personal growth and spiritual fulfillment.
- Belmont University
offers academically
challenging curriculum undergraduate and graduate
programs emphasizing knowledge, fundamental intellectual skills, cultural
perspectives, conceptual frameworks, and habits of ethical reflection
and action in an interdependent world. All learning contexts stress
the skills and dispositions necessary for lifelong learning that sustains
the value of higher education in each person's professional and personal
life.
- Belmont University
welcomes students from diverse
backgrounds and upholds the dignity of all. The university
fosters an atmosphere of respect for the civil expression of divergent
perspectives that enables students to learn, to live, to work, and to
play together.
- Belmont University
students are challenged to engage
and transform the world locally and globally. Viewing higher
education as a transformative experience, Belmont prepares its graduates
to take civic responsibilities seriously, to consider innovative solutions
to problems, and to bring the best of themselves, their creativity,
their intellectual skills, and their faith to meet the challenges and
opportunities that face the human community.
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