The Kentucky State University community continually demonstrates integrity and ethical leadership by requiring intellectual and personal honesty in every action, every learning, each teaching and each research moment, and in all service.

Kentucky State University empowers each student to be the best thinker, citizen, leader, and lifelong learner.

We see the student as a whole person in mind, body and spirit, developing intellectual, physical/social, and ethical dimensions. KSU values the life the student's mind, his/her health and wellbeing, and his/her ability to maintain and forge balanced social relationships. KSU places him/her at the center of its management systems by designing its operations to match the optimum cultural habits of students' needs. Students have ready access to faculty, essential services, and administrators.

KSU community exhibits perseverance daily. Perseverance is what powers each of us until we pinpoint what's getting in the way. It's what keeps us engaged when student progress comes slowly, over weeks, months, or even years. Perseverance enables us to view our students and programs through our 'future glasses' with the confidence that the end goal is reachable—and worth it.

KSU is purposeful in its plans to develop its students in and outside of the classroom We provide/create numerous 'out of the box' ways and opportunities for our students and employees to continuously learn and grow. It is critical to the success of KSU and its students that the students are able to apply what they learn in the classroom to real-life situations.

KSU educates students about the roles, rights and responsibilities of citizenship and provides students opportunities to participate in local, national, and global development opportunities.

KSU's commitment to excellence impels both individuals and the University to strive for outcomes that are exemplary rather than simply satisfactory. Striving for excellence touches all aspects of University life from academic programs to sports, from student services to campus environment, from recruitment to publications, and from special occasions to daily business.

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