Mission
Vision
2012
Values
Strategic Planning
Framework
Mission
The raison d’être of the University of Stellenbosch
is —
to create and sustain, in commitment to the academic ideal of excellent scholarly
and scientific practice, an environment within which knowledge can be discovered,
can be shared, and can be applied to the benefit of the community.
(extract from the Strategic Framework)
Vision 2012
With this vision statement, Stellenbosch University commits itself
to an outward-oriented role within South Africa, in Africa, and
globally
Stellenbosch University:
- Is an academic institution of excellence and a respected knowledge
partner
Values
- Equity.
Equity, in terms (inter
alia) of the bringing
about of a corps of
excellent students
and academic and administrative
staff members that
is demographically
more representative
of South African society,
must be fundamental
to all our actions,
including our redress
of the inequalities
of the past and our
repositioning of the
University for the
future.
- Participation. The
people who are substantially
affected by our decisions
must have an effective
say in the making of
those decisions.
- Transparency. We
must base our decisions
on considerations that
are clear and that
are known.
- Readiness
to Serve. In
all we do, we must
seek to serve the
best interest of
the broad communities
of our immediate
vicinity, of our
region, of our
country, of our
continent and of
the world in general.
- Tolerance
and Mutual Respect.
We must respect
the differences
between personal
beliefs, between
points of view,
and between cultural
forms of expression.
We must strive
to foster an institutional
culture that is
conducive to tolerance
and to respect
for fundamental
human rights and
that creates an
appropriate environment
for teaching, learning
and research.
- Dedication. We
prize dedication to
work, and the purposeful
achievement of self-chosen
goals.
- Scholarship. Our
research, teaching,
community service,
and management must
be characterized by
the kind of objectivity
and critical thinking
that is intrinsic to
excellent scholarly
and scientific practice.
- Responsibility. We
seek to be responsible,
both by seriously considering
the implications of
actions, and by being
responsive to the needs
of the broader community,
of South Africa as
a whole, of our continent,
and of the world in
general.
- Academic
Freedom.
As an accountable
public higher education
institution,
(i) we acknowledge, at the institutional, faculty and departmental levels,
our right to exercise our academic freedom in a responsible way, in teaching
and learning, in research and in community service, and
(ii) we reject unreasonable strictures of any kind on our endeavours.
(extract from the Strategic Framework)
You can download the Stellenbosch University Strategic Framework
document by clicking on one of the links below:
The Strategic
Framework (Word 95 document)
The Strategic
Framework (Word 97 document)
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