Purpose
To ensure resilience and health of our communities, people, environments, and economies locally, regionally, and globally.
Vision
To be the most important driver in Arizona's economy and the world's top college in 21st century agriculture, life sciences, and commerce.
Values
- Trustworthiness — we are honest and non-biased in our communications and committed to what we promise.
- Practicality — we focus on education, research and outreach with near-term value and application as well as long-term solutions.
- Responsiveness — we identify and respond to changing needs.
- Relevance — we promote ideas and productivity that create positive impacts.
- Entrepreneurship — we pursue initiatives, that include calculated risk, to deliver value.
- Ingenuity — we reward innovation.
- Compassion — we care about each individual’s and community’s circumstances, experiences and contributions.
- Respect — we expect professionalism and collegiality.
- Pluralism — we have formal delegated responsibility and authority and believe in faculty governance and collaboration.
- Egalitarianism — allows all our students, faculty, and staff to thrive. We embrace individual differences in thoughts, ideas, and actions, as well as personal experiences, histories, and perspectives, as we commit to accessible broad-based education and research, not academic elitism.
Missions
- To educate students and communities in ways that enable their future success in the regional and global economies.
- To develop new knowledge and new technologies to benefit society.