I. Official Mission of Miami University Middletown

The Overall Mission of Miami University

The mission of Miami University is to preserve, add to, evaluate, and transmit the accumulated knowledge of the centuries; to develop critical thinking, extend the frontiers of knowledge, and serve society; and to provide an environment conducive to effective and inspired teaching and learning, promote professional development of faculty, and encourage scholarly research and creativity of faculty and students. Miami's primary concern is its students. This concern is reflected in a broad array of efforts to develop the potential of each student. The University endeavors to individualize the educational experience. It provides personal and professional guidance. It offers opportunities for its students to achieve understanding and appreciation not only of their own culture but of the cultures of others as well. Selected undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs of quality should be offered with the expectation of students' achieving a high level of competence and understanding, and developing a personal value system. Since the legislation creating Miami University stated that a leading mission of the University was to promote "good education, virtue, religion, and morality," the University has been striving to emphasize the supreme importance of dealing with problems related to values. Miami is committed to serve the community, state, and nation. It offers access to higher education, including continuing education, for those who can benefit from it, at a reasonable cost, without regard for race, creed, sex, or age. It educates men and women for responsible, informed citizenship as well as for meaningful employment. It provides both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the pursuit of knowledge and to the solving of problems. It sponsors a wide range of cultural and educational activities, which have significance beyond the campus and the local community.

The Mission of Miami University Middletown

The Middletown Campus shares in Miami University's overall mission, and as a regional campus places special emphasis on providing:

1. lower division courses to enable students to complete two years toward the baccalaureate degree, or to earn an Associate in Arts degree;

2. technical programs of up to two years duration which are primarily designed to prepare students for careers that are generally (but not exclusively) at a paraprofessional level, or are designed to provide upgrading of skills and/or retraining to meet individual, local, and state needs;

3. support of the University Residence Credit Center through offering instruction in upper division baccalaureate and graduate courses for the purpose of meeting special needs of groups of students who are beyond sophomore standing;

4. carefully planned continuing education programs, courses, seminars and other educational activities offered to meet the civic, cultural, professional, occupational, or social needs of groups of adults, and to maintain the flexibility to develop special programs on a demand basis;

5. community service activities of an educational nature, which may include workshops, seminars, forums, and cultural events;

6. campus facilities and consultative research services designed to address community needs or to resolve community problems;

7. student development.

Leadership and Service-2009

Strategic Vision for Miami University Middletown

Miami University Middletown Functional Mission Statement

Functional Mission Statement 1996