NSU's Vision
To be recognized as a leading professional-dominant, doctoral research university providing competitive career advantages to its students and fostering alumni and partnership connections.
NSU's Mission
The mission of Nova Southeastern University—a selective, doctoral research university—is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity, and scientific, economic, and community contributions through engaging and empowering our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and partners.
Our Core Values
Student-Centered
Students are the focus of institutional priorities, resource decisions, and planning. We are stewards of student needs and advocates for student academic success and professional development.
Academic Excellence
Academically and professionally qualified and skilled faculty and staff provide the highest quality educational experiences. This includes opportunities for contextual learning, modern and advanced facilities, beautiful surroundings, and the resources necessary to support learning at the highest level. Academic excellence reflects the successful relationship among engaged learners and outstanding faculty and staff.
Scholarship and Research
Research, scholarship, and creative work are disseminated and evaluated through intellectual discourse and assessment relevant to the academic community.
Innovation
Innovation is the creative application of teaching, research, scholarship, and service to find and deliver new paths that bring value to the community.
Opportunity
The university gives students the opportunity to acquire an education that can transform their lives.
Community
NSU is a community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni that shares a common identity and purpose and engages with the university's external community through diverse services, clinical programs, and community-based research and resources. Our community extends into professional, intellectual, and geographical domains that support and are the focus of our educational mission.
Diversity
Diversity includes, but is not limited to, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, philosophy, gender, physical characteristics, socioeconomic status, age, and sexual orientation. It includes differences in perspectives and interpretations with respect for all. Diversity strengthens the university and enriches a learning environment focused on preparing individuals to live and work in a global society.
Integrity
Integrity involves honesty and fairness, consistency in instruction, ethics of scholarship, freedom of inquiry, and open and truthful engagement with the community through effective communication, policies, and practices.
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