Our goals are:
To welcome students, faculty, and staff from all backgrounds to create an inclusive community that is welcoming, nurturing, and intellectually rigorous;
to foster excellence in our teaching, research, scholarship, and service;
to prepare students with attitudes, skills, and habits of lifelong learning and leadership thereby enabling them to be productive members of a global society; and
to be an institution that excels by its accomplishments in our home community, St. Louis, as well as in the nation and the world.