Vision, Mission, Commitments, and Learning Themes

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»Vision, Mission, Commitments, and Learning Themes

Vision

Chapman University will be a student-centered institution, recognized nationally and internationally as a center of academic and personal excellence that prepares our students to contribute to a global society.

Mission

The mission of Chapman University is to provide personalized education of distinction that leads to inquiring, ethical and productive lives as global citizens.

Central Commitments

The mission of Chapman University finds expression through the following central commitments:

  • Create stimulating learning environments for a diverse population.
  • Recruit and retain an outstanding faculty that cherishes teaching, research and creative activity as primary professional commitments and that strives to build a creative intellectual community in which the inquiring life is exemplified by a shared commitment among students and faculty to the pursuit of knowledge.
  • Offer curricula that integrate liberal arts and professional learning in order to foster independent and critical thinking, effective communication and an international perspective.
  • Create learning, living and working environments that foster diversity, multiple perspectives and the free exchange of ideas.
  • Affirm our openness to diverse religious, spiritual, political and ethical traditions.
  • Encourage the linkage between a life of learning and service and vital interaction of the University with our wider communities.
  • Devote resources in a fiscally responsible manner to support outstanding teaching, scholarship and learning and develop facilities that enhance the living and learning environments.

Institutional Learning Themes

Chapman University’s five learning themes are the academic cornerstones supporting student learning experiences: general education and major field of study. The themes serve as guiding principles for academic programs. Programs, led by faculty, incorporate these themes as they develop their discipline-specific learning approaches and outcomes. As such, each program’s learning outcomes are representative of their respective disciplines and aligned to Chapman University’s learning themes. Chapman University believes learning to be a transactional process with transformational possibilities. Therefore, these learning themes serve as guiding principles for all members of Chapman University involved with student learning and not just our students.


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Faculty/Student Research

  • Collaborate on scholarly and creative pursuits and contribute to knowledge generation
  • Learn and use inquiry processes to discern the quality of information
  • Cultivate and value teamwork in scholarly and creative pursuits

Global Citizenship

  • Contribute knowledge and skills to strengthen local and global communities
  • Actively participate in organized action for social justice and social change
  • Serve and advocate for others, communities, and efforts with a focus on the common good

Interdisciplinarity

  • Integrate and synthesize seemingly disparate discipline-specific information and innovate new ideas
  • Adopt, inform, critique, and broaden perspectives by incorporating different types of information, approaches, and disciplines
  • Seek new and creative learning opportunities and partnerships

Personalized Education

  • Make learning relevant
  • Recognize and take ownership of the relationship between the self and learning processes
  • Actively engage with learning challenges and opportunities
  • Apply knowledge and skills gained to inform and improve academic, personal, and professional pursuits

Student Writing

  • Use written communication to effectively articulate informed arguments, ideas, proposals, questions, reports, etc.
  • Value the writing process as direct evidence of critical and logical thinking, content development, communication skills, positionality, and context awareness
  • Become proficient in a variety of writing genres and styles to communicate effectively