Core Values

The Core Values are listed in alphabetical order. There is no ranking implied. Commitments following each value elaborate rather than define the values.

Community

• A commitment to build a diverse, collaborative, open and student-centered community that
  holds itself and its members accountable to learn, serve, work and grow together in
  partnership.
• A commitment to share the responsibility of governance and to create transparency and
  accountability in our decision-making.

Diversity

• Commitments to celebrate, embrace, value, and learn from the voices, perspectives and
  experiences of all our community members.
• A commitment to ensure that the University offers its students, faculty and staff of diverse
  backgrounds opportunities that are accessible and fair to all constituents.
• A commitment to seek and respect diverse points of view in the academic arena.

Excellence

• A commitment to excellence in every academic and professional pursuit.

Goodness

• A commitment to demonstrate the goodness of God by our actions on behalf of each person
  and all creation.
• A commitment to value life as an ongoing spiritual journey of deepening relationship with
  self, others and the Divine.

Integrity

• A commitment to honor the sacredness and dignity of each person and the development of
  the whole person through our collaborative practices.
• A commitment to match our actions and our words.

Justice

• A commitment to enhance the application of ethics, justice, and peace at the personal,
  community and global levels.

Learning

• A commitment to innovative learning of what is necessary for life, both as a directed process
  and as a lifelong practice.
• A commitment to the search for truth, knowledge and meaning.
• A commitment to keep alive the tradition of Catholic social teaching.

Service

• A commitment to community-based learning and other forms of service.