Our mission
Western Oregon University creates lasting opportunities for student success through transformative education and personalized support.
Our vision
To become Oregon’s campus of choice for students, faculty and staff who seek a student-centered learning community.
Western Oregon University will achieve this vision by:
- Cultivating student success through personalized attention, mentoring and degree attainment.
- Raising awareness of our strengths, successes and contributions to the community through increased public outreach.
- Adapting to the changing world through continuous institutional improvement, evolving pedagogues and expertise, sustained scholarly and creative activities and delivery of critical and innovative programs.
- Aspiring to standards of excellence in all programs.
- Challenging students, faculty and staff to grow profoundly through inspiring, thought-provoking educational experiences.
- Connecting students with communities through engagement in service, experiential learning, creative problem-solving opportunities and cocurricular collaborations.
- Supporting the inclusion of, respect for and appreciation of all communities of students, faculty and staff.
- Promoting the well-being of students, employees and the environment.
Our values
Our practices are guided by our values:
- Accessibility: Programs, resources, media and structures that support the needs of our community members; affordable cost of attendance; personalized support; welcoming, efficient and user-friendly systems.
- Accountability: Evidence-based decision making, integrity and ethical transparency.
- Collaboration: Effective communication cooperative exploration, problem solving and teamwork; shared governance; dialogue.
- Community: Trustworthy, caring, safe environment for the cultivation of peace, civility and social justice; connections extending beyond the classroom, across campus and into our local and global communities.
- Diversity and Respect: Equity and inclusion; a fundamental basis in human diversity; appreciation for the complexity of the world; strength drawn from our variety of backgrounds, abilities, cultural experiences, identities, knowledge domains and means of expression.
- Empowerment: Knowledge, skills, pathways, technologies and resources for all community members to effectively identify and utilize opportunities; student success in degree attainment; critical thinking.
- Excellence: High standards for teaching, learning, scholarship and service; co-curricular activities; advancement of knowledge, analytical skills, creativity and innovation.
- Sustainability and Stewardship: Leadership in service of the public good; action to improve the health of our planet; responsibility for preserving and enhancing the natural, structural, financial, intellectual and human resources entrusted to us.
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