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MISSION
Heritage University is a non-profit, independent, non-denominational, accredited institution of higher education offering undergraduate and graduate education. Its mission is to provide quality, accessible higher education to multicultural populations which have been educationally isolated. Within its liberal arts curriculum, Heritage offers strong professional and career-oriented programs designed to enrich the quality of life for students and their communities.
VISION
From its founding days, Heritage University has been inspired by a vision of education which embraces issues of national and international significance. These issues revolve around the realization that cooperation across cultural boundaries — whether they are geographic, ethnic, racial, religious, or economic — will be vital to human survival. Heritage University recognizes a basic principle rooted in all the world’s great religions and moral traditions: each human person is endowed with inalienable dignity and gifted with unique potential.
To translate this vision into everyday reality in the Heritage University learning community requires a highly qualified and unusually dedicated faculty and staff with a low student to faculty ratio. These employees’ dedication to the Heritage University mission leads them to create and sustain unique educational programs specifically tailored to the special needs of multicultural and rural or isolated constituencies. The Heritage community attempts to live its motto, “Knowledge Brings Us Together,” by placing great importance on the dignity and potential of each student and by considering diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds as assets to the educational process.
Heritage University has a student body with substantial diversity, which creates an effective learning community where each cultural group is valued. To develop community and concern for the common good, Heritage University seeks to provide leadership in supporting cultural pluralism within our own and other communities. Cultural pluralism creates a climate of respect and appreciation by fostering “learning about us” in an interdependent and connected world. Heritage University acts to make its curriculum, staffing, teaching, and other collegiate activities reflect this learning.
Underlying the Heritage vision are three key values: 1) honoring each person’s human dignity and potential; 2) seeking intellectual growth and challenges; and 3) celebrating the shared spiritual roots of all humankind.
The Heritage University Vision is embodied in these eight operating principles:
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for the healing circle of life we live together; |
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for excellence in teaching and in learning; |
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for responsiveness to student needs: intellectual, family, and personal; |
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for inclusivity and cultural pluralism; |
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for team-work building community; |
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for awareness leading to continuous improvement; |
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for grass-roots community involvement; |
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for effectiveness in managing limited resources to achieve Heritage's goals. |