Alabama State University Mission, Vision, and Role

Alabama State University Mission

Alabama State University is a student-centered public HBCU committed to excellence in teaching, research and service. ASU provides a nurturing, holistic learning environment focused on developing students, on campus and virtually, to be global change agents. ASU embraces CommUniversity and philanthropy to create dynamic relationships for
positive community impact.

Alabama State University Vision

Alabama State University (ASU) will achieve global recognition through excellence in teaching, research and service. ASU will advance its current Carnegie Classification to a Doctoral/Professional University. ASU aspires to be a national leader in developing students through a transformational educational experience with global impact. As a
community builder and partner, ASU will continue to have a measurable impact on society through innovative education and scholarly research.

Alabama State University Values are: 

PRIDE: We are committed to sustaining ASU’s rich history as an epicenter of the Modern Day Civil Rights and social justice initiatives.

INTEGRITY: We are committed to honest and ethical standards, as we hold ourselves to transparent systems, structures and mechanisms.

IMPACT: We are committed to building partnerships and collaborations to contribute for external community impact and the development of our students.

DIVERSITY:  We are committed to fostering diversity and inclusion with a cultural perspective to give opportunity for faculty, staff and students from many backgrounds (including
non-traditional, first-generation, high achieving, lifelong learners and workforce oriented students).

LOYALTY: We are committed to building upon our proud traditions that will impact the lives of alumni and generations to come, with a promise to give back.

ASU offers baccalaureate through doctorate degrees in an expansive array of academic programs. We maintain a scholarly and creative faculty, state-of-the-art facilities, and an atmosphere in which members of the university community live, work and learn in pleasant surroundings. ASU offers a bridge to success for those who commit to pursing quintessential educational opportunities and lifelong endeavors.

Alabama State University Role

As a comprehensive regional institution, Alabama State University provides high-quality undergraduate and graduate instruction, which leads to degrees in liberal arts, the fine arts, business, the sciences, teacher education, selected health-related professions and other professions.

The University’s general objective is the preparation of students for an effective and productive role in American society as professionals and as citizens. The university provides learning experiences designed to develop students’ intellectual abilities, as well as their social, moral, cultural and ethical values. In so doing, the university is equipping its students with those skills, insights, attitudes and practical experiences that will enable them to become well-rounded, responsible and discerning citizens, fully qualified for service to humanity in a dynamic global society. The order of priority of the university’s functions is (1) instruction, (2) research and (3) public service. In executing its role, the University will:

1. Subscribe to admission policy that results in the admission of students who have demonstrated that they are capable of succeeding in the university’s degree programs.
2. Achieve successively higher levels of demonstrated excellence in all its educational programs.
3. Practice state-of-the-art pedagogical and general educational principles that will distinguish the university on a national level.
4. Recognize the diversity of its student body and provide an educational and intellectual environment in which all students may thrive, learn, and develop their highest potential for professional careers and leadership.
5. Honor its origins by including offerings in its curricula that provide a rich understanding of the African-American experience.
6. Place emphasis on the undergraduate preparation of students, and on selected master’s and doctoral program offerings designed for entry into the professional world of work, for future formal study, and for basic and applied research that is useful at the community, national, and international levels.
7. Maintain and strengthen its outreach program by making public policy research findings and recommendations, and relevant continuing education more accessible to the community.
8. Support wide-ranging research and scholarly activities that serve to create and apply new knowledge and theories of human endeavors.
9. Contribute to the cultural life of the community through programs in the visual and performing arts and through public lectures and forums.