Introduction

Mission Statement

Immaculata University, a Catholic academic community, founded and sponsored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is committed to scholarship, formation of the whole person for leadership and service, and empowerment of all to seek truth, promote justice, and engage in dialogue between faith and culture.

Vision

Immaculata University is a fiscally stable institution as a result of strategic enrollment growth in both the undergraduate and graduate programs and by focusing on the mission to provide distinctive transformational education to students in the IHM tradition.

Core Values

• Faith
• Community
• Knowledge
• Virtue
• Service

Philosophy/Goals

Immaculata University has been built on the firm belief that the highest service a college can render its students is to prepare them for life, both the present life and the life to come.

Immaculata University, aware of the demands of a changing world, offers students the means to grow as integral persons, responsible to God, the Church, and one another, and stimulates growth within a Christ-centered academic community.

As a community of faith and learning, Immaculata dedicates all available resources to the search for truth. In this community, students are challenged to recognize and fulfill their roles as responsible persons and potential leaders in dedicated concern for and service to humanity and our world. The Immaculata faculty assists students in the pursuit of these goals.

Immaculata’s program, based on the liberal arts, is designed to encourage logical and critical thought, independent study, and the integration of knowledge. The University strives to develop in students an aesthetic sense and the ability to communicate ideas effectively.

In this intellectual atmosphere, the University hopes that students will comprehend the issues posed by human achievements and failures and reach an understanding of the full meaning of the individual as a Christian witness in all phases of life.

Motto

The University motto, which reads in Latin, Scientia floret virtute (Knowledge flourishes in virtue), expresses the ideal of a true liberal arts education in the Christian tradition. The dual meaning of the Latin word, virtute, is virtue or power. It is symbolic of the kind of strength that comes from the wisdom earned by reflective study and vigorous application. Whether one takes the word virtue in its ethical sense or in its dimension of force and energy, the intellectual and moral values that students choose to make their own enable them to go “from strength to strength.” Liberally educated, Immaculata graduates have acquired that flexibility and sense of personal worth that will make them prudent risk-takers in a world that belongs to those who dare and those who care.