OUR VISION

The University of Regina is a welcoming, student-focused institution that combines deep-rooted values with innovative thinking, classroom theory with real-world practice, and global ideas with regional needs. We aspire to be one of Canada’s best comprehensive universities.

OUR VALUES

• We are a scholarly community engaged with many other communities. The members of our community are our defining resource. Our treatment of each other is principled and respectful.
• We are a learning community. We value interaction between faculty members and students, as the fundamental activity of the academy. We acknowledge the diversity of learning styles and needs of our students. We aim to be accessible to all who can learn with us.
  
• We have a driving urge to know the unknown. Our investigation of and reflection upon varied intellectual pursuits is fundamental to us. We engage our students in these endeavours.
  
• We balance our duty to academic integrity with our commitment to academic freedom in our work and interaction.
  
• We employ our expertise to serve each other and society. We illuminate socially relevant problems. The knowledge we generate enriches the community.
  
• We are legitimately concerned with all aspects of our world. We are a bridge and an interpreter between our communities, other peoples and other nations.
  
• We are accountable for our performance to each other, our students, our alumni and the public.

OUR MISSION

The University of Regina

• Provides high quality, accessible education that prepares learners for productive and creative lives.
  
• Produces innovative research and scholarship to expand human knowledge and support social, environmental, and economic development.
  
• Embraces diversity.
  
• Responds to the needs of Saskatchewan peoples, particularly First Nations and Métis peoples.
  
• Engages with and services communities, local, provincial, and beyond.
  
• Strives for and promotes sustainability and efficiency.
  
• Offers a welcoming, rewarding study and work environment that fosters creativity, engagement, continuous learning, and the opportunity to succeed.
  
• Recognizes the historic values and cultures of Saskatchewan while preparing for a prosperous and significant future.

The goals and objectives for 2009-2014 fall within three major areas: our work, our people, our communities. Detailed information about the strategies relating to these goals and objectives may be found on the University of Regina President’s Office website at www.uregina.ca/home/strategic