Philosophy and Goals
The University of St. Francis promotes learning and seeks to develop and enrich the total human personality. The university is committed to academic excellence at every level of its educational process. It seeks to promote undergraduate and graduate learning through diverse models of excellence built upon strong liberal arts and academic foundations. Through its academic programs and other experiences, the university encourages responsibility and maturity, a reverence for truth, a desire for excellence, a knowledge of oneself and creation and love for others.
Goals:
- To provide women and men with a liberal education
- To prepare women and men for selected careers
- To provide for intellectual growth by an open, questioning and reasoned approach to learning
- To provide a forum for a consideration of the transcendent and the ultimate questions of human experience
- To provide personalized education for the individual
- To provide a healthful living environment which is purposeful and interactional and that leads the learner to attain new insights
- To provide an educational experience which embodies the Christian and Franciscan elements of peace and compassion for one’s neighbor
- To provide special programs and courses to meet the needs of students from diverse age groups who may differ in the level of formal education and professional development