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Mission
Vision Statement
Core Values
Goals
Strategic Priorities
Definitions
Mission Statement
Central Michigan University serves Michigan and the larger
community as a doctoral/research-intensive public university
focused on excellent teaching and student-focused learning.
The university is committed to providing a broad range of
undergraduate and graduate programs and services to prepare
its students for varied roles as responsible citizens and
leaders in a democratic and diverse society. Its programs
encourage intellectual and moral growth, prepare students
for meaningful careers and professions, instill the values
of lifelong learning, and encourage civic responsibility,
public service and understanding among social groups in a
global society.
The university emphasizes an undergraduate program that
maintains a balance between general education and
specialization. In addition to educational depth in at least
one academic discipline or professional field, the
university provides educational experiences in the arts,
humanities, natural and social sciences, global cultures,
and issues of race and diversity. The university offers
selected high quality graduate programs in traditional
disciplines and professional fields. Through its Off-Campus
Programs, the university provides access to higher
education programs and lifelong learning opportunities both
nationally and internationally through a variety of
innovative instructional methods and schedules designed to
meet the demands of adult populations.
Central Michigan University encourages research, scholarship
and creative activity and promotes the scholarly pursuit and
dissemination of new knowledge, artistic production and
applied research. Through its support of research, the
university enhances the learning opportunities of both its
undergraduate and graduate students and promotes economic,
cultural and social development.
The university’s sense of community is reflected through
governance structures that allow broad-based participation,
opportunities for close student-faculty interaction, and a
rich array of residential and campus-based co-curricular
activities. Through its partnerships and outreach efforts,
the university promotes learning outside of the traditional
classroom and enhances the general welfare of society.
Vision Statement
"CMU will be a nationally prominent university known for integrity, academic excellence, research and creative activity, and public service."
Core Values
The Central Michigan University community has identified
core values that guide and motivate the institution. CMU’s
mission statement reflects a commitment to these values:
Learning
- Student-focused learning, placing the strongest value on
learning and teaching;
- The scholarship of discovery and creativity, recognizing
that the most basic function of the university is to seek, apply and disseminate knowledge and
insights;
- Liberal education as the foundation of the undergraduate
curriculum, articulating this commitment in a general education program;
- Graduate education as integral to the university
experience, enhancing the learning environment for all community members and providing leadership in the
area of scholarship;
- Nurturing and encouraging personal growth, creating an
environment that actively and deliberately supports individuals’ effort to realize their
potential and achieve their goals.
Community
- Diversity and multiculturalism, embracing multiple voices,
perspectives and ideas rather than the dominance of only one idea, person, faction, generation,
race, culture or religion;
- A sense of community, encouraging a shared sense of
belonging, the harnessing of energies and commitments to common goals, and the valuing of the
contributions of all members to the whole;
- Respect and civility in the treatment of each other,
creating an atmosphere of mutual free exchange and expression of thoughts and ideas, civil
discourse and conscientious actions;
- Shared governance, supporting the principles of
communication, consultation and participatory decision-making.
Service
- Serving the larger community, recognizing an obligation
to serve the public interes t and to merge theory and practice;
- Professional responsibility, taking seriously the impact
of performance on each other, on the learning community, and upon society.
Quality
- Striving for quality in all that we do, encouraging
excellence in all of our activities.
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Goals
To achieve its mission and realize its values, Central
Michigan University is committed to the following actions:
- Provide a quality, broad undergraduate education to
prepare students for a thoughtful life of service to the
community and as a base for future academic and
professional work and to ensure that CMU students will be
knowledgeable and skilled, liberally educated persons.
- Offer in-depth undergraduate programs in which students
can begin to master an academic field and practice a
profession.
- Offer graduate programs in niche areas of faculty
strength that meet regional, state, national and
international needs.
- Encourage the practice of values pertaining to
professionalism, character and citizenship, including
concern for the welfare of humanity, dedication to public
service and awareness of the social issues confronting a
diverse global society.
- Advance and disseminate knowledge by stimulating and
supporting research and creative activities by students,
faculty and staff.
- Design and develop innovative and effective learning
systems to meet contemporary educational needs.
- Use modern technologies to enhance teaching, learning,
research and administrative functions.
- Provide an environment that allows for broad-based
community involvement and participation in democratic
civic life.
- Provide support services and a physical environment
that foster student success.
- Offer co-curricular activities, including Division l-A
athletics, which enhance intellectual, cultural, social,
ethical, physical and emotional development.
- Create and nurture an environment that attracts and
retains students, faculty and staff who embody and promote
cultural, racial and global diversity.
- Provide educational experiences and programs to
enhance mutual trust, respect, understanding and sense of
community with people from all backgrounds and cultures
and to ensure an international and global perspective.
- Provide service for the public good.
- Attract and manage resources to enable faculty, staff
and students to be successful in meeting these goals.
In all of its activities, Central Michigan University
encourages the ongoing monitoring of quality and the
achievement of excellence.
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Strategic Priorities
Strategic Planning at CMU
CMU 2010 is Central Michigan University’s strategic plan for achieving its vision.
Sometimes referred to as the vision plan, CMU 2010 outlines five institutional priorities
as well as strategies and initiatives that are being pursued in order to achieve the priorities.
Those five priorities are:
1. Create an environment that supports teaching and learning as the top priority.
2. Provide educational experiences and programs that enhance diversity and global perspectives.
3. Enhance the infrastructure for research and creative activities.
4. Provide service for the public good.
5. Strengthen the institution’s culture of integrity.
The CMU strategic planning process is dynamic. The latest updates, the original vision plan,
meetings of the Strategic Planning Committee and other information relative to strategic
planning at CMU are available from the CMU 2010 web site at www.planning.cmich.edu. Comments
and questions can be referred to CMU2010@cmich.edu.
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Definitions
Mission Statement — The mission statement represents a
self-definition of what the university sees as its reason for existence.
Core Values — Core values are widely held principles that guide and
motivate the institution.
Goals — Goals are statements of action. By carrying out actions
described in goals statements, the university expects to accomplish its
mission and realize its values.
Institutional Priorities — Institutional priorities are strategic
directions for the university. These are more broadly written than
university goals and provide direction for enhancing one or more of the
university's core values.
Vision Statement — The vision statement expresses the university's
aspirations for the future.
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