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Vision and Mission Statement

The School of Business and Management delivers a practitioner-oriented, competency-based business education within a distance-learning environment that is learner-centered and prepares ethically responsible, and value-creating and globally engaged business professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

• Academic Excellence: Deliver quality business and management education that is industry relevant and career enabling.
• Learning Community: Provide academic and professional learning opportunities emphasizing investigation of and enrichment through diverse college-level practitioner-scholar educational experiences.
• Education Innovation/Alternative Educational Approaches: Create alternative learning opportunities that are adult-learning oriented, practitioner focused and measurable consistent with traditional matriculation and course work.
• Assessment: Apply rigorous data collection, assessment and reporting processes to program quality and stakeholder value aligned with business school accreditation quality standards.
• Public Engagement: Provide educational opportunities promoting advocacy and inquiry and practice leadership associated with sponsoring business activities that promote public interest, policy, and innovation.
• Professional Service: Offer business education related services to diverse constituencies fostering public service and business enabling partnerships to achieve community goals.
• Ethical Orientation: Be an advocate and exemplar of ethical behavior in higher education and the global business community.