Mission Statement and Guiding Principles
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will serve as a national model of an engaged metropolitan university whose faculty, staff, and students, in collaboration with external partners, employ the intellectual resources of the liberal arts and professional programs to enrich the lives of those we serve.
Guiding Principles
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga defines its land-grant mission through people, partnerships, and performance:
- People
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- We embrace active and collaborative learning through partnerships among students, faculty, staff, and the community.
- We encourage frequent, respectful, and collegial interaction among students, faculty, staff, and community.
- We provide opportunities for our students to augment intellectual development through participation in artistic, cultural, social, and athletic activities.
- We develop partnerships that strengthen the university and our community.
- We provide intellectual neutrality essential to public policy.
- Performance
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- We prepare our students and alumni to apply knowledge to the challenges of a changing society.
- We use the interconnected activities of teaching, research, and service to promote learning, problem solving, and innovation.
- We use technology to enhance teaching, research, operations, and community outreach.
- We enable our students and our community by applying knowledge to the challenges of a changing society.
- We use our resources in a prudent manner to accomplish our mission.
- We use multiple measures to evaluate the performance of our students, faculty and programs.
Human Resources Mission Statement
The Office of Human Resources seeks to contribute to the University community through the development and administration of effective human resources systems in the areas of employment compensation and benefits, employee relations, personnel record maintenance, and staff training and organizational development. Our object is that such services have the end result of recruiting, retaining, and enhancing the contribution, personal well-being, and satisfaction of individuals who will advance the teaching, research, and public service mission of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
