Thursday, October 9, 2008

New GMU Mission Statement

The Board of Visitors just approved a new GMU mission statement:

George Mason University is innovative and entrepreneurial in spirit and utilizes its multi-campus organization and location near our nation's capital to attract outstanding scholars, faculty and programs. George Mason will:

  • Educate the new generation of leaders for the 21st century - men and women capable of shaping a new economy in a global community with vision, justice and clarity.

  • Encourage freedom of thought, speech and inquiry in a tolerant, respectful academic setting.

  • Provide undergraduate, graduate and professional courses of study that enable students to exercise analytical and imaginative thinking and make well-founded ethical decisions.

  • Nurture and support a highly qualified and entrepreneurial faculty that is excellent at teaching, active in pure and applied research, capable of providing a broad range of intellectual and cultural insights and is responsive to the needs of students and their communities.

  • Maintain an international reputation for superior education that affirms its role as the intellectual and cultural nexus among Northern Virginia, the nation and the world.
What do you think?

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