The main vision of the staff members of the faculty is to make the Faculty of Administrate Sciences a center of scientific and technological excellence nationally and internationally and serve the community as they stride towards this goal.
The Vision Statement for our Faculty is an indication of what it aspires to be. In crafting its vision the Faculty recognizes that the world is changing rapidly and that higher education should change with it. Specifically, the Faculty strives for the vision needed to successfully lead in a system of higher education that is rapidly redefining itself to meet the challenges of a changing student population, shifting globally driven market forces, increasingly complex technologies, rising costs, and eroding state fiscal support. At the same time, the faculty recognizes that the contributions made by science the welfare of society will play an increasingly dominant role in the future.
First and foremost the Faculty aspires to the highest standards of excellence for student learning and performance. Key to this vision is the following characteristics. First, Education should be viewed as a fusion of classroom teaching and hands on research with faculty mentors who actively engage students. The intricate mixing of teaching and research is viewed as the greatest strength of the Faculty. Its powerful educational effectiveness comes from linking facts, theory, inquiry, discovery, and solutions to real world problems. The most important goal of research in the Faculty is the education of undergraduate students. Second, realizing that economic constraints do not allow us to be “all things to all people”, the Faculty will be recognized for high quality undergraduate and graduate education that strives for distinction by developing specialty areas in the sciences. These specialty areas will result from the integration of faculty interests and local, regional and state priorities. Third, the educational programs, led by a highly skilled and dedicated faculty, will engage and challenge students to achieve their fullest intellectual potential, mastering skills such as critical thinking, communication, and quantitative analysis. Students will also be provided with the latest knowledge and technical expertise that are needed in today’s job market. Fourth, the Faculty is committed to continuous improvement of its instructional programs through a policy of rigorous, data-based, systematic assessment.
The Faculty aspires to the highest standard of excellence in scholarship. The Faculty will be recognized by its peers for excellence in the creation and dissemination of new knowledge that directly benefits the region, state, and nation. To achieve its vision of excellence in both teaching and research, the Faculty aspires to the teacher-scholar model, where faculty members are effective skilled teachers, understand how students learn, integrate teaching with research, and are committed to the creation of new knowledge for its own sake and its application to solving problems. Active cross-disciplinary collaborations and partnerships with centers of excellence abroad encouraged and viewed as essential to the teaching-research mission of the Faculty