Waynesburg University seeks to:
For Students
- Prepare students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with the knowledge, skills and values necessary for the vocations to which they are called by God.
- Cultivate the ability of students to think critically and to apply these skills in lifelong scholarship and ethical decision making.
- Develop students who practice effective communication skills in both the spoken and written word in many different contexts.
- Educate students to apply processes of scientific inquiry and quantitative reasoning skills in examining both information and theoretical models.
- Provide students with opportunities to recognize lifestyles, traditions and rituals of diverse cultures.
- Equip students to examine and employ information resources and technologies with wisdom and faithfulness.
- Nurture students’ use of their creative abilities and their appreciation of aesthetic expressions of others.
- Challenge students to excel in scholarship, research and independent academic inquiry within the broad context of the liberal arts tradition.
- Educate students with depth of knowledge in one of the academic and applied disciplines through instruction and research at either the undergraduate or graduate level.
- Engage students to be servants and citizens in their local communities and to take responsibility for involvement in the world in which they live.
Waynesburg University seeks to:
For the Campus Community
- Foster a Christian learning community where students are challenged and encouraged to develop as people through a variety of curricular and co-curricular programs.
- Nurture a campus environment where the spiritual development of students, faculty and staff is affirmed through programs and resources.
- Maintain an environment characterized by fairness and justice as expressed through institutional policies and procedures.
- Make available critical and emerging informational, physical and technology resources necessary to support the education and research of a learning community.
- Provide effective academic support services that will encourage and facilitate individual educational achievement for all students.
- Address the changing educational and cultural needs of the local region through educational degrees, instructional programs, utilization of campus and graduate center resources and strategic partnerships.
- Effectively manage fiscal and human resources to provide affordable opportunities for Christian higher education.
- Exhibit responsible care for the Creation through the institution’s policies and practices.