Westcliff University’s mission is to Educate, Inspire, and Empower students from around the world to achieve personal and professional success by providing practical, innovative, high-quality campus and online programs.
Vision Statement
Westcliff University strives to become the most innovative global educational institution, respected for its transformative, technologically advanced programs and initiatives with a focus on excellence, social responsibility, and diversity.Core Values
Overview:
We are warriors who care and understand that volunteer work offers an opportunity for our staff, students, faculty, and communities to engage in activities that affect the common good of society. Through our community work, we gain valuable skills, understanding, and enhance the communities that we reside within.Committee purpose and goals:
The Social Responsibility Committee is a diverse group of individuals throughout the university that collaborate with neighboring community representatives and organizations. SRC exists to advance positive relations and to maintain consistent communication between the university and its communities. As a part of giving back, Westcliff is offering scholarships to designated non-profit partners and their communities in need. The SRC meets monthly, with oversight or attendance from the president and senior leadership once a year. Upcoming Committee Meetings are monthly on the second week of the month. Be the change in the world you’d like to see, be a Warrior that Cares! For more information, visit our Social Responsibility webpage.Core Competencies
An important dimension to Westcliff University’s mission to educate, inspire, and empower students from around the world is the attainment of core competencies. These competencies delineate the skills, attitudes, and knowledge that are critically needed to achieve the university mission, and as such play a vital role in the development of each student. Additionally, these competencies are aligned with program learning outcomes specific to the Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate levels. The following core competencies align with the program learning outcomes and form a theme of personal and professional enrichment:- Critical Thinking
- Effective Communication
- Professional Integrity
- Global Citizenship
- Innovation
Critical Thinking: The ability to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information and ideas from multiple perspectives to reach well-reasoned conclusions. It involves questioning assumptions, examining evidence and logics of the arguments, demonstrating independent judgement, and solving complex problems. The information could include quantitative and qualitative data.
Rationale: This outcome aligns with Westcliff’s emphasis on innovation and student success and core values of integrity and accountability by fostering independent, unbiased judgment and reflective decision-making for a diverse, global environment.
Effective Communication: Expressing ideas clearly and reasoning persuasively across written, oral, visual, and nonverbal formats. It entails adapting messages to diverse audiences, using proper conventions, and actively listening to foster meaningful collaboration.
Rationale: This competence reflects Westcliff’s core values of collaboration and compassion by enabling learners to share knowledge, collaborate across cultures and disciplines, thereby educating and empowering others.
Professional Integrity: Understanding and applying principles of integrity, honesty, accountability, and respect in decision-making. This includes recognizing and evaluating moral issues or ethical dilemmas, considering the impact of choices, and upholding ethical standards in any setting.
Rationale: It embodies Westcliff’s core values of integrity and accountability by preparing students to make principled, responsible choices in any setting.
Global Citizenship: Understanding and engaging with interconnected social, cultural, environmental, and political issues. Central to global citizenship is the ability to build trust and foster respectful relationships across diverse communities, strengthening cooperation and mutual understanding to address challenges beyond national boundaries.
Rationale: Consistent with Westcliff’s core values of social responsibility, integrity, accountability and a diverse student body. This outcome involves acting ethically and contributing positively to the common good on a global scale.
Innovation: Intentional application of novel ideas, strategies, and technologies to create innovative solutions and positive change and develop globally competent, ethical, and forward-thinking practitioners and scholars.
Rationale: In alignment with Westcliff’s vision to be a globally recognized institution, innovation is both a process and an outcome—driven by compassion, critical inquiry, and a forward-thinking mindset—that prepares students to address complex global challenges while demonstrating the university’s core values of integrity, excellence, diversity, and community engagement.
