University Mission Statement
We Prepare Today’s Students to Succeed in Tomorrow’s World.
Shawnee State University will educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth. It is the University’s duty to equip students with the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions. Shawnee State is committed to not requiring, favoring, disfavoring, or prohibiting speech or lawful assembly. The University is committed to creating a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community. Shawnee State has a duty to treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, to hold them to equal standards, and to provide them with equality of opportunity, with regard to those individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Department of Business and Finance Mission Statement
To fulfill the University Mission, the Finance and Administration Division delivers and strengthens core business and administrative services that support academic programs, student learning, and life experiences, offers the protection of mission critical data and the delivery of key services to the community.
UIS Mission Statement
The University Information Services Department, UIS, is charged to offer outstanding technology services to its students, faculty and staff. UIS implements and supports the latest technologies for academic instruction, administrative computing and student learning. UIS ensures that enterprise systems and mission-critical functions are fully operational on a continuous basis, standard technology is refreshed on schedule and that networked computing resources are available based on user roles, appropriate access guidelines and campus policy.
The UIS department assists students in preparing for the changing needs of business, industry, education and society by ensuring that current learning, administrative and community-based technologies can be securely accessed from wired and wireless networks in academic and administrative areas and campus green space.
Aligned with the Department of Business and Finance, UIS promotes the continuous evaluation of technology upgrades and emerging technologies that further SSU’s Mission, in collaboration with campus departments and executive leadership.
UIS further assists the University in fulfilling its Mission via a continuous commitment to a network quality of service that offers managed capacity, timely and secure access to campus resources as well as the ability for users to communicate on and off campus.
UIS is committed to Technology as a Service, that can be measured for performance, quality and continuous improvement.