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Student Handbook

Core Values

The following institutional functional core values guide the promotion of student learning and success, faculty scholarship and research, and community engagement at Leighton University:

  • Academic Excellence – We are a community that pursues excellence in its teaching, learning, and research to serve the local, national, and international communities. We treasure the institutional autonomy and the integrity necessary to uphold the highest standards of intellectual inquiry and academic freedom.
  • Integrity – We are a community that strives to engage in honest communications, fairness, ethical manner, and accountability for words and deeds in all University activities and decision-making.
  • Inclusivity – We are a community that embraces inclusivity where the unique attributes and contributions of all individuals are valued to enhance the richness of our academic environment regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, political beliefs, spiritual perspectives or other ideologies.
  • Innovation – We are a community dedicates its stakeholder to the discovery and application of knowledge in teaching and learning and in developing pioneering products and processes to form collaboration across disciplines and communities and to positive transformation through research, scholarship, and creative works.
  • Engagement – We are a community that encourages and supports its faculty, staff, and students in all forms of scholarship, including the innovation and expansion of knowledge and truth.
  • Technology – We are a community that values the security of technology resources and information entrusted to our care and will be attentive in maintaining the integrity of these critical items.