Mission & Values

ULSA’s core mission can be explained in just three words.

Education, Research, Service.

Our Mission

ULSA's primary purpose as a public research university is to create, disseminate, preserve, and apply knowledge to better our global society. To fulfill this mission, ULSA is committed to absolute academic freedom. ULSA values open access to information, accessible and lively debate conducted with mutual respect for individuals, and freedom from intolerance. In all of our pursuits, we strive at once for excellence and diversity, recognizing that openness and inclusion produce true quality. These values underlie our three institutional responsibilities.

Learning and teaching at ULSA are guided by the belief that undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students and their teachers belong to a community of scholars. This community is dedicated to providing students with a foundational understanding of a broad range of disciplines, followed by the opportunity for in-depth study in a chosen discipline. All community members are engaged together in discovering and advancing knowledge and practice. Learning occurs not only in the classroom but also through engagement in campus life, communities, and organizations beyond the university.

Discovery, creativity, and innovation are hallmarks of ULSA. As one of the country’s great research universities, we are committed to ensuring excellence across various disciplines, professions, and arts while encouraging investigation across disciplinary boundaries. In so doing, ULSA advances knowledge, addresses pressing societal needs, and creates a university enriched by diverse perspectives where all individuals can flourish.

Civic engagement and community presence are fundamental to our mission as a public university. We seek to serve society through teaching and scholarship, educate successive generations of leaders, and pass on to students a renewable set of skills and commitment to social engagement. Located on the Pacific Rim in one of the world's most diverse and vibrant cities, ULSA reaches beyond campus boundaries to establish partnerships locally and globally.

ULSA endeavors to integrate education, research, and service so that each enriches and extends the others.

This integration promotes academic excellence and nurtures innovation and educational development for everybody, despite their nationality, origin, and history. 

Principles of Community

The University of San Andreas, Los Santos (ULSA) is an institution that is firmly rooted in its land-grant mission of teaching, research, and public service. The campus community is committed to discovery and innovation, creative and collaborative achievements, debate, and critical inquiry, in an open and inclusive environment that nurtures the growth and development of all faculty, students, administration, and staff.

These Principles of Community are vital for ensuring a welcoming and inclusive environment for all campus community members and serving as a guide for our personal and collective behavior.

  • We believe diversity is critical to maintaining excellence in our endeavors.

  • We seek to foster open-mindedness, understanding, compassion, and inclusiveness among individuals and groups.

  • We are committed to ensuring freedom of expression and dialogue, respectfully and civilly, on the spectrum of views held by our varied and diverse campus communities.

  • We value differences as well as commonalities and promote respect in personal interactions.

  • We affirm our responsibility for creating and fostering a respectful, cooperative, equitable, and civil environment for our diverse campus communities.

  • We strive to build a community of learning and fairness marked by mutual respect.

  • We do not tolerate acts of discrimination, harassment, profiling, or other conduct causing harm to individuals based on the expression of race, color, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, religious beliefs, political preference, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship or national origin, among other personal characteristics. Such conduct violates ULSA’s Principles of Community and may result in the imposition of sanctions according to campus policies governing the conduct of students, staff, and faculty.

  • We acknowledge that modern societies carry historical and divisive biases based on race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation and religion. We seek to promote awareness and understanding through education and research and to mediate and resolve conflicts arising from these biases in our communities.