UW-Stevens Point Mission and Values

Through the discovery and dissemination of knowledge, UWSP stimulates intellectual growth, provides a liberal education, and prepares students for a diverse and sustainable world.
 

Vision

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will be recognized for its preparation of students and development of citizens who will affect local, regional, and global affairs and engage with the concerns of the world.
 
Through the following strategic themes, goals, and action steps, we will uphold our mission, honor our values, and realize our vision.

UW-Stevens Point Strategic Plan

Values

  • Student-centered environment
  • Critical thinking, creativity, and lifelong learning
  • Professional preparation
  • Community involvement and outreach
  • Ecological stewardship
 
UW-Stevens Point shares in the mission of the University of Wisconsin System.

University of Wisconsin System Mission 

The mission of this system is to develop human resources, to discover and disseminate knowledge, to extend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campuses, and to serve and stimulate society by developing in students heightened intellectual, cultural, and humane sensitivities; scientific, professional, and technological expertise; and a sense of purpose. Inherent in this broad mission are methods of instruction, research, extended education, and public service designed to educate people and improve the human condition. Basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth.

As an institution of the University of Wisconsin System, UW-Stevens Point shares the following core mission with other universities. Each university shall:

  • a)   Offer associate and baccalaureate degree level and selected graduate programs within the context of its approved mission
          statement.
  • b)   Offer an environment that emphasizes teaching excellence and meets the educational and personal needs of students through
          effective teaching, academic advising, counseling, and through university-sponsored cultural, recreational, and extracurricular
          programs.
  • c)   Offer a core of liberal studies that supports university degrees in the arts, letters, and sciences, as well as specialized
  •       professional/technical degrees at the associate and baccalaureate level.
  • d)   Offer a program of preprofessional curricular offerings consistent with the university's mission.
  • e)   Expect scholarly activity, including research, scholarship, and creative endeavor, that supports its programs at the associate and
          baccalaureate degree level, its selected graduate programs, and its approved mission statement.
  • f)    Promote the integration of the extension function, assist the University of Wisconsin-Extension in meeting its responsibility for
          statewide coordination, and encourage faculty and staff participation in outreach activity.
  • g)   Participate in inter-institutional relationships in order to maximize educational opportunity for the people of the state effectively and
          efficiently through the sharing of resources.
  • h)   Serve the needs of women, minority, disadvantaged, disabled, and nontraditional students and seek racial and ethnic diversification
          of the student body and the professional faculty and staff.
  • i)    Support activities designed to promote the economic development of the state.
    The select goals and responsibilities of UW-Stevens Point are to:
    • Provide a broad foundation of liberal studies and selected degree programs in the fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, imparting the heritage of human civilization, critical intelligence, and the skills necessary for a lifetime of learning and upon which education in the professional fields may be built.
    • Provide undergraduate professional programs in communicative disorders, teacher education, home economics*, the visual and performing arts, paper science, and natural resources with emphasis on the management of resources.
    • Provide graduate programs in teacher education, communicative disorders, natural resources, home economics*, communication and other select areas clearly associated with this university's undergraduate emphases and strengths.
    • Provide programs in wellness and health promotion.
    • Provide quality undergraduate and graduate instruction through innovative methods using print and nonprint library resources, computing, communication technology, and direct student assistance.
    • Expect scholarly activity, including research, scholarship and creative endeavor, that supports its programs at the associate and baccalaureate degree level, its selected graduate programs, and its special mission.
    • Cooperate with UW-Extension in the development and coordination of statewide outreach programming, integration of the extension function into the institution, and appropriate and adequate recognition of those involved in outreach activities.
    *The former home economics programs are now offered as child and family studies, dietetics, early childhood education, family and consumer sciences, human development, nutrition, and interior architecture.