https://wustl.edu/ Washington University in St. Louis' mission is to discover and disseminate knowledge, and protect the freedom of inquiry through research, teaching and learning. Washington University creates an environment to encourage and support an ethos of wide-ranging exploration. Washington University's faculty and staff strive to enhance the lives and livelihoods of students, the people of the greater St. Louis community, the country and the world.
OUR GOALS ARE:
to welcome students, faculty and staff from all backgrounds to create an inclusive community that is welcoming, nurturing and intellectually rigorousto foster excellence in our teaching, research, scholarship and serviceto prepare students with attitudes, skills and habits of lifelong learning and leadership, thereby enabling them to be productive members of a global societyto be an institution that excels by its accomplishments in our home community, St. Louis, as well as in the nation and the worldTO THIS END WE INTEND:
to judge ourselves by the most exacting standardsto attract people of great ability from diverse backgroundsto encourage faculty and students to be bold, independent, and creative thinkersto provide an exemplary, respectful and responsive environment for living, teaching, learning and working for present and future generationsto focus on meaningful measurable results for all of our endeavors