Our mission is to prepare graduates who think critically, serve generously, lead purposefully and live responsibly as stewards of the world they bequeath to future generations.

In order to fulfill this mission, Lincoln University cultivates and promotes experiences, both in activity and thought, which will lead students to an outlook on life of wholeness and openness, an acceptance of life as a trust, a continuing lifestyle of critical affirmation, and integrity, and a sense of responsibility for themselves and others.

Therefore, as an institution of higher education, we are committed to these purposes:

• to demonstrating the continuing relevance of a liberal arts learning and to further its formative role in the world;

• to maintaining and promoting excellence in preparation, performance and attainment of vocational goals;

• to helping each student to continue toward the achievement of his/her potentiality and a personal life-style founded on integrity, accountability, self-respecting purpose and meaning;

• to enable each student to think, move and interact with freedom and meaning;

• to enable each student to think, move and interact with freedom and to focusing on human values and relationships which promote the development of human potentiality while under girding the worth of and care for individuals and the welfare of society;

• to creating in each student an intellectual curiosity about the wholeness of knowledge and a concern for the value judgments which are critical to wise decision making and a creative life.

--Amended May 8, 2003