VISION, MISSION, AND CORE VALUES OF KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY
Kentucky State University is a public; comprehensive, historically black land-grant university committed to advancing the Commonwealth of Kentucky, enhancing society, and impacting individuals by providing quality teaching with a foundation in liberal studies, scholarly research, and public service to enable productive lives within the diverse global economy.
Kentucky State University prepares today's students as global citizens, lifelong learners, and problem solvers. To accomplish this, Kentucky State University must challenge itself and its students to be the best. It must recognize its strengths, expand, and excel. Notwithstanding, it must also welcome change and quality improvement. By doing so, KSU will gain widespread recognition as one of the region's strongest universities. As a university of distinction, Kentucky State University will create an environment where:
Students are first.
Diversity is valued, understood, and respected.
Diverse, motivated, and talented students, staff and faculty are actively recruited and retained.
An intellectual environment conducive to leadership in teaching, research and community service is encouraged and supported.
Effective teaching integrating active learning, experimental research, and critical thinking methods.
Students are taught how to obtain, evaluate, and use information.
Learning is lifelong.
Effective and efficient fiscal management by the administration is the norm.
Collegiality is the norm, not the exception.
Each person is a change agent.
Excellence starts with me.