| The University of
Georgia, a land-grant and sea-grant
university with statewide commitments and
responsibilities, is the state's oldest,
most comprehensive, and most diversified
institution of higher education. Its
motto, "to teach, to serve, and to
inquire into the nature of things,"
reflects the University's integral and
unique role in the conservation and
enhancement of the state's and nation's
intellectual, cultural, and environmental
heritage. The University of Georgia
shares with the other research
universities of the University System of
Georgia the following core
characteristics:
* a
statewide responsibility and
commitment to excellence and academic
achievements having national and
international recognition;
* a
commitment to excellence in a
teaching/learning environment
dedicated to serve a diverse and
well-prepared student body, to
promote high levels of student
achievement, and to provide
appropriate academic support
services;
* a
commitment to excellence in research,
scholarship, and creative endeavors
that are focused on organized
programs to create, maintain, and
apply new knowledge and theories;
that promote instructional quality
and effectiveness; and that enhance
institutionally relevant faculty
qualifications;
* a
commitment to excellence in public
service, economic development, and
technical assistance activities
designed to address the strategic
needs of the State of Georgia along
with a comprehensive offering of
continuing education designed to meet
the needs of Georgia's citizens in
life-long learning and professional
education;
* a
wide range of academic and
professional programming at the
baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral
levels.
With its
statewide mission and core
characteristics, the University of
Georgia endeavors to prepare the
University community and the state for
full participation in the global society
of the twenty-first century. Through its
programs and practices, it seeks to
foster the understanding of and respect
for cultural differences necessary for an
enlightened and educated citizenry. It
further provides for cultural, ethnic,
gender, and racial diversity in the
faculty, staff, and student body. The
University is committed to preparing the
University community to appreciate the
critical importance of a quality
environment to an interdependent global
society.
As a
comprehensive land-grantCsea-grant
institution, the University of Georgia
offers baccalaureate, master's, doctoral,
and professional degrees in the arts,
humanities, social sciences, biological
sciences, physical sciences, agricultural
and environmental sciences, business,
environmental design, family and consumer
sciences, forest resources, journalism
and mass communication, education, law,
pharmacy, social work, and veterinary
medicine.
The
University attracts students nationally
and internationally as well as from
within Georgia. It offers the state's
broadest array of possibilities in
graduate and professional education, and
thus a large minority of the student body
is post-baccalaureate. The predominantly
Georgian undergraduate student body is a
mix of highly qualified students
originally admitted as freshmen and
selected transfer students principally
from other University System
institutions.
With
original scholarship, basic and applied
research, and creative activities
constituting an essential core from which
to draw, the impact of the
land-grantCsea-grant mission is reflected
throughout the state. Cooperative
extension, continuing education, public
service, experiment stations, and
technology transfer are all designed to
enhance the well-being of the citizens of
Georgia through their roles in economic,
social, and community development.
As it has
been historically, the University of
Georgia is responsive to the evolution of
the state's educational, social, and
economic needs. It aspires through its
strategic planning to even closer contact
and interaction with public and private
institutions throughout the state as well
as with the citizens it serves.
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