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Belmont University
Mission, Vision and Values
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
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.
Vision Statement
To be a premier teaching university bringing together the best of liberal
arts and professional education in a Christian community of learning and
service
Values
As a community seeking to uphold Christian standards of morality and
ethics, Belmont University holds high ideals and expectations of each
person who chooses to join the community. In upholding these ideals, Belmont
proclaims these values:
* mutual respect and collaboration
* the worth of the individual
* personal integrity
* critical, independent thinking
* self control
* community responsibility and accountability
Values serve as guiding principles that shape our daily actions. They
are truths that we believe are very important. Everyone needs to know
and understand the values of our organization. A relentless focus on these
core values helps us move toward our vision.
Values help us remember what our organization will honor and appreciate.
We will honor open, honest conversation even if the feedback we receive
is not what we would like to hear. We will respect everyone we work with
at Belmont regardless of their primary task or title. We will listen and
learn from everyone in the organization so that we can all grow and contribute
more. These three values are rules we can live by.
Values only become real when they are embraced by everyone in the organization.
Our values of honesty, respect for others, and listening and learning
from everyone are noble and yet difficult values to consistently live
out. Leadership has the responsibility for setting the example here.
These ideas, hopefully, offer direction, security, stability, and most
importantly, an opportunity to see how everyone can contribute and make
a difference through their work at Belmont.
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