Maryville Mission, Vision and Core Values
Maryville University is one of the outstanding private universities in the Midwest offering an innovative liberal arts education leading to excellent academic and professional programs in the Arts and Sciences, Health Professions, Education and Business that prepare students for a life of engagement and achievement in multiple fields of endeavor.
Consistent with this mission, Maryville University is committed to achieving the following goals:
- Provide a learning environment where teaching and mentoring students is at the center of everything that we do.
- Provide an innovative liberal arts foundation for all of our students.
- Provide selective and cutting edge programs in the Arts and Sciences, Health Professions, Education and Business.
- Reflect the cultural diversity of the global community and build global awareness and understanding through myriad international programs.
- Make the values of ethical leadership, civic engagement, and sustainability prominent aspects of the student academic, co-curricular and spiritual experiences.
- Build a vibrant campus community through outstanding co-curricular programming, athletics, cultural events and intellectual exploration.
- Maintain a collegial environment embracing the values of academic freedom, fiscal responsibility and participatory university governance.
- Engage students in greater metropolitan St. Louis, serving the communities' needs and providing our students with varied internship and service learning opportunities.
- Empower students to achieve their career goals and be successful participants in the global marketplace.
- Provide comprehensive programs for non-traditional students that empower their lives and uplift their career goals.
- Provide a community where civil discourse and mutual respect are values and actions shared by all.
Maryville University will be one of the outstanding private universities in the country offering an innovative liberal arts education leading to excellent academic and professional programs that prepare students for lives of achievement, global awareness and civic engagement.
These reflect the core values of Maryville's past and future. They reflect not only what we value and how we articulate it but also what we want to impart to our students now and in the future.
- Our essential, foundational purpose is the teaching and mentoring of students of all ages so they may stretch their minds, challenge their limits and critically think about and adequately express their own intellectual journey.
- Everything that we do both inside and outside the classroom is directly related to enhancing the student learning and living experience.
- Appreciation for the diversity of the human condition and an understanding and ability to work, live and thrive within the global community.
- All citizens must be actively engaged in their local, national and global communities to both strengthen those communities and assist those less fortunate.
- Commitment to the principle that all people have both the ability to lead and the responsibility to do so based on a strong ethical foundation.
- Appreciation that our collective global environment requires good, prudent stewardship and meaningful consideration of those who will inherit our institution, community and world.
