Appendix
B
Mission
of San Francisco State University
The
mission of San Francisco State University is to create and maintain an
environment for learning that promotes respect for and appreciation of
scholarship, freedom, human diversity, and the cultural mosaic of the City of
San Francisco and the Bay Area; to promote excellence in instruction and
intellectual accomplishment; and to provide broadly accessible higher education
for residents of the region and state, as well as the nation and world. To fulfill
its mission, the university is committed to the following goals:
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Attracting,
retaining, and graduating a highly diverse student body;
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Providing
disciplinary and interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional education that
is academically rigorous and intellectually challenging;
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Providing
curricula that reflect all dimensions of human diversity, and that encourage
critical thinking and social and cultural awareness;
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Recruiting,
retaining, and supporting a diverse faculty whose teaching demonstrates an active
engagement with their individual fields of study and whose creative and
scholarly work is an extension of the classroom, laboratory, or studio;
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Employing a
staff and administration reflecting the diversity of the community and the
values of the campus;
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Fostering a
collegial and cooperative intellectual environment that includes recognition
and appreciation of differing viewpoints and promotes academic freedom within
the university community; and
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Serving the
communities with which its students and faculty are engaged.