Vision Statement
We
seek to have transformational impact on all who teach, learn,
discover and work here so they are prepared and engaged to serve humanity.
As a great research university, we must embrace responsible risk-taking
in pursuit of bold aspirations for national and global leadership.
- We combine experiential learning with rigorous
scholarship
in our undergraduate and all educational programs to produce educated
learners who are awake to new possibilities.
- We invest in the arts, humanities, and
social sciences
as important areas of scholarship and as an essential foundation
for preparing morally and socially responsible life-long learners.
- We build on our existing strengths,
including engineering,
biomedical sciences, and professional education, and pursue
productive
partnerships with other outstanding institutions.
- We are guided by our values at every
level to promote a
diverse, challenging, supportive, entrepreneurial, and interdisciplinary
environment of openness, respect, accountability, and academic
freedom.
Mission and Values
“Willing is not enough; we must do.” -- Goethe
As
a university guided in all of its labors by values defined
and sustained by constant moral discourse, we hold ourselves accountable
at every level of the institution for practicing our values of integrity
and respect, excellence and innovation, mentorship and diversity,
academic freedom and entrepreneurship, partnership and social responsibility,
efficiency and effectiveness, and continuous personal and institutional
improvement.
As
an educational institution dedicated to leadership in teaching and
learning, we seek to transform all learners – faculty
and staff as well as students – and support their personal growth
and mentorship throughout their lives. We seek to lead the nation
as the research university where the challenges of creating new knowledge
support the values of a liberal education, where rigorous theory and
practical, real-world experiences come together.
As
a research institution dedicated to leadership in scholarly investigation,
we seek to transform knowledge itself, focusing resources into those
areas of research and scholarship where we can have the greatest national
and global impact. In addition to research targeted to specific ends,
we also accept our responsibility – unique to research universities
– to create and disseminate knowledge for its own sake, and
we promote a culture of inquiry marked by rigor, creativity, curiosity,
innovation, respect, sensitivity, open communication of ideas, and
lifelong learning.
As
a service-oriented institution dedicated to civic leadership,
we seek individually and collectively to transform society by preparing
our students to improve the human condition and by directing the benefits
of discovery toward a better society. Our uniquely transforming environment
is not limited to the university’s own classrooms, laboratories,
libraries, residence halls, and athletic fields, but includes partnerships
with many other great institutions, including those concentrated
in
University Circle, Greater Cleveland, Northeast Ohio, and beyond.
To “think globally, act locally,” we build these partnerships
in the service of national and international leadership, believing
that our ability to improve the human condition throughout the world
should begin within our own community.
Case Western Reserve University strives to create
a unique synergy among our education, research, and service missions,
which we view as inseparable. Organizationally, this means
that we eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy, striving to be the most efficiently
run research university in the world in order to keep our focus on productivity
and maximize opportunities for inter-departmental, inter-school, and
inter-institutional collaboration. Educationally, this means that student
experiences in cultural institutions, clinics, social service agencies,
or industry are not viewed as “extra-curricular,” but combine
with the demands and rigors of academic theory to create the transforming
learning experience that is a Case Western Reserve education.
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