Viterbo University

Viterbo University Mission

The Viterbo University community prepares students for faithful service and ethical leadership.
Viterbo University Vision

The University of Opportunity envisions Viterbo as a premier university that is innovative, creative, and flexible as well as progressive, collaborative, and ever-evolving that has as its foundation deeply embedded Franciscan values.
Institutional Goals

1. To uphold, represent, and share the faith needed to bring learning, morality, and values into effective relationships.
2. To build community through self-acceptance, intellectual development, creative expression, personal relationships, and religious integration.
3. To affirm Viterbo University as a Catholic, Christian, independent, small, liberal arts, coeducational university which is of unique value and service to its students and the La Crosse community and is worthy of support from public and private sources.
4. To promote academic excellence and an intellectual climate through competent instruction, enriching campus activities, and a healthy learning environment.
5. To improve and develop academic programs which meet the needs of both traditional and nontraditional students and are in harmony with the institution's mission.
6. To integrate program planning and facilities planning with budget planning so that departmental objectives contribute directly to the attainment of institutional goals.

Statement of Purpose

Viterbo's vision and values are found in the Gospel as reflected in the heritage of St. Francis and the Order of Sisters which founded the institution.

The university's primary purposes are:

1. To offer baccalaureate liberal arts degree programs along with career and professional opportunities on both a full- and part-time basis.
2. To offer opportunities for life-long learning through degree completion programs, specialized professional degree programs, and continuing education as well as selected masters degree programs.
3. To develop a total program of studies, adapted to the needs and interests of the students, which will stimulate the fullest possible growth of the intellectual and creative powers of each student.
4. To create an educational environment which will stimulate free inquiry, a search for truth, aesthetic appreciation, intellectual integrity, and leadership potential.
5. To foster the integration of knowledge with religious and ethical values.
6. To deepen in the students an appreciation of one's own cultural heritage and traditions, as well as those of others.
7. To facilitate the formation of a Christian community which offers opportunities for religious dialogue, experience, and worship, and which manifests mutual care, honesty, respect and love.
8. To maintain a Catholic Christian orientation and a fidelity to the continuance of the traditions of the Catholic Church and the spirit of Franciscanism.
9. To provide a milieu which fosters growth in self-actualization, emotional maturity, religious convictions, and a dedication to the ideals of service.
10. To facilitate integration of the living and learning aspects of student development.

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