Vision, Mission, Focus and Values
Our Vision
We are a department where education and citizenship combine to enhance the quality of life for the world we touch.
Our Mission
Our mission is to create, share, and apply knowledge about park, recreation, and tourism resources and phenomena in order to advance the intellectual and professional development of students, serve social needs, inform policy, promote economic development, and foster health and the quality of life for individuals, families, communities, and the environment.
Our Focus and Values
- Student centeredness, to the fullest extent of policies and procedures
- Student involvement
- Excellence in teaching, scholarship, and citizenship
- Excellence in customer service
- Career opportunities and advancement of our graduates
- Interrelationships among teaching, scholarship, and service
- Speculative as well as applied knowledge
- Experiential as well as didactic learning
- Diversity
- Reasoned action on matters of park, recreation, and tourism ethics, policy, and use
- Independent and lifelong learning
- Continuous improvement and development of students, faculty, and staff