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La Salle
University
La Salle University, dedicated in the traditions
of the Christian Brothers to excellence in
teaching and to concern for both ultimate values
and for the individual values of its students, is
a private... |
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La Salle University, dedicated in the traditions of the
Christian Brothers to excellence in teaching and to
concern for both ultimate values and for the individual
values of its students, is a private Roman Catholic
University committed to providing a liberal education of
both general and specialized studies.
As a Catholic university, La Salle strives to offer,
through effective teaching, quality education founded on
the idea that one's intellectual and spiritual
development go hand in hand, complementing and
fulfilling each other. The University has, as its basic
purpose, the free search for truth by teaching its
students the basic skills, knowledge, and values that
they will need for a life of human dignity. The programs
of the University also aim at preparing students for
informed service and progressive leadership in their
communities and to fulfilling the immediate and final
goals of their lives.
Goals:
- to recruit and maintain a distinguished faculty with
diverse educational and ethnic backgrounds as guided by
the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative
action and sustained through programs of development,
research assistance, and retraining;
- to recruit and retain qualified students, while at the
same time striving to attract a more diverse student
body: socially, geographically, economically, and
racially;
- to maintain class sizes small enough to promote active
student participation and a close working relationship
between students and faculty;
- to provide quality support services that assist the
learning process;
- to provide learning experiences in both traditional
and non-traditional settings;
- to continue to foster an atmosphere supportive of
interdisciplinary learning;
- to provide opportunities for part-time undergraduate
and graduate study, chiefly oriented toward attainment
of degrees, for students whose personal circumstances
make full-time study impossible;
- to provide co-curricular opportunities which are
designed to stimulate significant change and growth in
the social, emotional, spiritual and physical
development of students;
- to establish advisement procedures which assist
students in making valid educational and career choices;
- to provide resources as appropriate for the transition
to a more residential institution of regional scope;
- to sustain an atmosphere of collegiality and trust in
which matters of policy and procedural change are
recognized as the mutual province of faculty, students,
and administration.
As a Christian Brothers University, La Salle continues
in the Catholic traditions of the innovative educator
John Baptist de La Salle, who founded the order. The
University engages in programs in which students'
personal, social and religious values may take root and
in which students may grow in mature attitudes and
behavior in all human relationships. The University
strives to foster an environment of faith which produces
a reciprocal respect among all persons in the community
and to establish an atmosphere in which community
members may openly bear witness to their convictions on
world peace and social justice.
Goals:
- to continue to encourage the presence and influence of
the Christian Brothers on campus;
- to provide opportunities for worship and celebration
and to maintain an active Campus Ministry;
- to undertake theological and religious study in a
systematic and critical way and to investigate
interrelationships which emerge with other disciplines;
- to maintain a fiscal policy which allows the
University to attract students from modest income
levels;
- to provide educational opportunities and resources for
the economically and educationally disadvantaged;
- to continue to provide to the residents of the
immediate La Salle neighborhood the educational
resources and expertise to improve the quality of their
lives.
As a private University, La Salle strives to determine
its own policies, thus providing the option of private
higher education in an area increasingly dominated by
large public institutions.
Goals:
- to maintain autonomous academic admissions standards
and an independent structure for governance;
- to determine our own fiscal, curricular and
recruitment policies.
As an undergraduate institution, La Salle is committed
to a liberal arts education which assists students in
liberating themselves from narrow interests, prejudices,
and perspectives, and in learning to observe reality
with precision, to judge events and opinions critically
and independently, to think logically, to communicate
effectively, and to sharpen aesthetic perception.
Students are encouraged to seek wisdom; that is, to
grasp those basic principles which can give order to
particular facts. The University urges students to
confront the ultimate questions of human experience: who
am I? where does my destiny lie? how am I to reach it?
Goals:
- to maintain, as the foundation of all learning, a
common, comprehensive liberal arts core which will
challenge all undergraduate students with courses
addressing the analytic process (philosophical and/or
scientific), the communication process (oral and
written; emitted and received), and the historical,
intellectual, and creative growth of humanity;
- to require students to gain thorough foundational
knowledge of the subject matter of one or more
disciplines;
- to expose students to an optimal mix of required and
elective courses in a variety of disciplines, providing
advisement to help determine the elective choices which
best serve the students' educational needs.
As a graduate institution, La Salle strives to support
the career aspirations of students and meet the needs of
society. Graduate education at La Salle emphasizes the
students' ability to apply universals and specifics to
actual situations, to distinguish relationships, to
analyze critically, to rearrange component ideas into
new wholes and to make judgments based on external
criteria.
Goals:
- to offer graduate programs which enable students to
augment their academic backgrounds, to acquire both
practical and theoretical knowledge in their chosen
field, and to enhance their professional competencies;
- to offer graduate programs which enable students to
correlate and synthesize information from various
fields, to relate the theoretical to the practical, and
to develop values in the liberal arts tradition;
- to offer graduate programs which are designed to
prepare students to advance in their professional
careers and to pursue appropriate further studies.
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