University Mission
As West Florida's comprehensive regional public university, we are dedicated to excellence in teaching, research, and service, and to the enrichment of the educational, cultural, economic, and natural environments of the people and region we serve. We are committed to quality educational programs that promote scholarship and close work-relationships among students, faculty, staff, and community; promote the advancement of knowledge; promote the application and exchange of knowledge with the communities we serve; and promote service to the region and state. Our focus is on the education and well-being of students
(first), then (equally) on the interests and needs of our faculty and staff, the business and research communities, the cultural community, the natural environment, alumni, investors, and the public.
The vision of The University of West Florida is:
- to be a center of intellectual vitality, research, and creative activity,
- to provide to a heterogeneous student body an excellent education that is the foundation of
their individual intellectual and professional goals,
- to engage its students in the research and public service activity of the faculty,
- to use its scholarly and creative activity to solve regional problems and enhance the quality of life in Northwest Florida,
- to contribute to the economic development of the Northwest Florida region and the state,
- to be a beacon for the arts and letters,
- and to support the protection of the natural environment.
Dedication to knowledge is the foundation of the University of West Florida. All that we do or propose to do must serve the transmission, creation, application, and preservation of knowledge. To that end, our mission is to enhance and promote the educational, cultural, economic, and natural environments of the people and region we serve through quality teaching, research, scholarship, creative accomplishment, and service.
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