Mission, Vision, and Values

UTC Mission Statement

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a driving force for achieving excellence. Our mission is to actively engage students, faculty, and staff; embrace diversity and inclusion; inspire positive change; and enrich and sustain our community.

College Mission Statement 

The College of Health, Education and Professional Studies prepares liberally educated, technologically efficient scholars and practitioners for life in a global society. The College is committed to enhancing the bodies of knowledge in each of its disciplines, promoting the values and ethics of a truth-seeking, caring community, and serving diverse populations by providing family and social service experts, health and lifestyle professionals, leaders and teachers for the 21st century.

LEAD/LEAP Programs Mission Statement 

Equip participants/students with an understanding of the relationship leadership plays in the learning and decision-making process; develop reflective practitioners in a variety of organizations; and focus on the interwoven nature of learning, leadership, and decision-making; emphasizing course content on the application to the individual’s professional practice. 

LEAD/LEAP Programs Vision 

LEAD program(s) will provide a multi-disciplinary approach to learning opportunities for contemporary learners to achieve a degree or certificate focused on learning, leadership, and decision-making including learning through initiatives dedicated to the application of and investigation into current industry and organizational topics within the community, across the region, and nationwide. 

LEAD/LEAP Programs Values  

Responsive

• Use team approach to address issues in a timely manner
• Provide opportunities to engage when it is convenient to the contemporary learner
• Establish opportunities for clear and open communication between faculty, staff, and learners

Supportive

• Advocate for each student to attain learning goals
• Meet the needs of the contemporary learner
• Emphasize humble inquiry, rigor, and student (scholar-practitioner) success

Respectful

• Welcome and support diverse points of view
• Understand the challenges of the contemporary learner

Transparent

• Provide clear expectations in all courses to support learner achievement
• Establish clear pathways to degree and certificate achievement

Consistent

• Provide consistency across all degree and certificate programs
• Implement team approach = communication = coordination

Inclusive

• Develop all content to meet the most appropriate accessibility standards
• Demonstrate cultural competency

Equitable

• Set transparent and reasonable expectations
• Establish and use rubrics for all deliverables/assignments

Application-based

• Provide rigor in coursework
• Help participants/students to understand the application of coursework to professional practice
• Provide competency related resource materials