Mission
Mission Statement
Our culture of diversity creates a unique equitable educational empowerment environment. We provide opportunities for resilient learners to become servant leaders to their communities.
Values:
FEEL Definition - An Experience
(an emotion or sensation)
FamilyEquityEducational EmpowermentLeadership
Definitions of Our Values:
Family –
Our Family value of interpersonal relationships requires that we care for and treat all *members of our community in a constructive but honest and respectful manner.
*members of our community are all who share our values.
Equity –
Our value of Equity encompasses diversity and inclusion, it requires that we support each member based upon their unique needs for support and gives them fair access to educational empowerment. UWLA affirms its position as an antiracist institution.
Educational Empowerment –
Educational Empowerment adds to and refines the members of our communities’ existing capacity and knowledge with the creation of opportunities for professional development and social mobility.
Leadership –
Irrespective of titles or names, the value of Leadership is the ability to bring about transformative change from vision to completion, while at the same time remaining a humble lifelong learner.
Meaning of Degree Statement
Our degree programs enable our broadly diverse community of students to obtain the professional skills and knowledge necessary to pursue and achieve their goals and dreams. Our methodologies embrace and emphasize practical experience, foundational theory, and diverse forward thinking, all with an objective to promote and uplift individuals within our communities. Our school is a close-knit community environment where students receive high-quality, affordable education, and are treated with personal attention, care, and support.
Institutional Learning Outcomes:
The goal of UWLA is to offer a premier education. As such, the University achieves its mission by ensuring that academically and professionally our graduates will:
- Make progress towards becoming engaged and self-reliant learners demonstrating habits of intellectual inquiry and striving toward their maximum potential.
- Experience an academically rigorous learning environment that challenges them to develop the necessary verbal, written and critical analysis and critical thinking skills needed to evaluate complex issues.
- Develop an understanding of advanced concepts and major modes of inquiry using a variety of methodologies/approaches.
- Be prepared to contribute to a diverse democratic society with a pluralistic perspective of the world.
- Be able to demonstrate civility, empathy, interpersonal competence, social responsibility and peaceful conflict resolution within the context of their chosen field.
- Recognize the ethical dimensions of decisions and actions as well as demonstrate the ability to engage in the ethical reasoning necessary to exercise responsibility as an ethical individual, professional, local and global citizen.