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WINTHROP
UNIVERSITY MISSION STATEMENT
Winthrop University provides personalized and challenging
undergraduate, graduate, and continuing professional education
programs of national caliber within a context dedicated to
public service to the State of South Carolina. All eligible
bachelor's, master's and specialist degrees in the liberal arts
and sciences, education, business and the visual and performing
arts are nationally accredited – part of the University’s
commitment to be among the very best institutions of its kind in
the nation.
Building on its origins as a women’s college, the Winthrop
University of the 21st century is achieving national
recognition as a competitive and distinctive, co-educational,
public, residential comprehensive teaching institution.
Winthrop enrolls an achievement-oriented, culturally diverse and
socially responsible student body of 6,000 students and
will remain a medium-sized comprehensive teaching university for
the foreseeable future. The University recruits South
Carolina’s best students as well as highly qualified students
from beyond the state whose presence adds diversity and
enrichment to the campus and state. Winthrop prides itself on
being an institution of choice for groups traditionally
under-represented on the college campus.
Winthrop’s historic campus, located in a dynamic city
within a major metropolitan area, provides a contemporary and
supportive environment that promotes student learning and
development. Winthrop has a diverse and able faculty and
professional staff of national caliber and supports their work
as effective teachers, scholars, researchers, practitioners, and
creative artists. Through this talented group, Winthrop students
acquire and develop knowledge, skills, and values that enrich
their lives and prepare them to meet the needs and challenges of
the contemporary world, including the ability to communicate
effectively, appreciate diversity, work collaboratively,
synthesize knowledge, and adapt to change. Ongoing assessment of
programs and services ensures both that all academic programs
challenge students at their highest level of ability and that
the library, instructional technology and other academic service
areas support courses of study that are consonant with current
methods and knowledge. As a result, Winthrop graduates are
eminently well prepared to assume successful careers in
business, industry, government, education, the arts, and human
services, as well as to enter the most competitive graduate or
professional schools.
(Adopted by the Winthrop University Board of Trustees - 6/12/98)
(Update Adopted by the Winthrop University Board of Trustees -
11/3/00)
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