Our students value our transformative Saint Mary’s experience.
Through our leading scholarship, innovative academic programming, commitment to athletics and recreation, and our cutting-edge facilities that invite collaboration and understanding and create space for engaging with community and businesses, we produce graduates distinguished not only by their academic achievements, but also by their openmindedness, maturity, adaptability and enduring fellowship.
The academic, co-curricular, cultural and social aspects of the Saint Mary’s experience challenge, inspire and support our diverse student cohort to achieve the educational and social outcomes of our vision for a World Without Limits.
Our first priority, then, is to foster a vibrant culture of research, teaching and learning that reflects our core values of academic integrity, the pursuit of knowledge, responsiveness to community needs and concerns for a just society, promoting inclusive excellence that embraces diverse learner needs and creating strong and sustainable communities.
Strategic Direction
Our students, faculty, professional librarians and staff will be courageous in tackling some of the most difficult challenges facing the world and seek to create strong and sustainable communities both locally and globally.
Objectives
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Engage in innovative, interdisciplinary research and teaching inspired by intellectual curiosity and creativity that respond to real-world challenges, and that connects and impacts our communities |
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Strengthen and expand community engagement and partnerships, building the relationships required to tackle existing and emerging social, economic and intercultural challenges |
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Attract talented, thoughtful and diverse students, faculty, professional librarians and staff seeking to join us in embracing new approaches to strengthening our communities |
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Integrate equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility into teaching, research and administrative service across all areas |
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Identify and celebrate excellence in research, teaching and administrative service |
The university’s emphasis on fostering a culture of research, teaching and learning aligns with my own journey. I’ve found that classes delve into pressing current societal issues, urging us to contemplate their implications. Engaging with research and readings that address these contemporary challenges instills in us a sense of responsibility to effect positive change in our communities.
As the landscape of education and knowledge evolves, we need to be able to get ahead of it and adapt to this change, be it in our curriculum, the tools we use to learn, or the way we comprehend and process information. Saint Mary’s is a leading institution in innovation and research and I have felt and seen the university adapt and find innovative ways to implement change into our curriculum.