As the metropolitan campus of a land-grant institution, Auburn University at Montgomery blends the traditional view of the university as a community of scholars with the contemporary view of the university as an integral part of the surrounding community, state, and region. Its mission is to foster and exemplify excellence in education through instruction, research, and service--to provide academic programs that are not only characteristic of the finest traditions of the liberal arts, business, sciences, nursing, and education, but also consistent with the responsibility of the university to provide support for the functions of government, cultural enrichment through the arts, and regional economic growth. As a center of learning dedicated to the examination of ideas and values influencing civilization, AUM is committed to:

1. Providing its students with an understanding of the issues, ideas, and values that have a significant impact on the development of society;
   
   
2. Developing in its students the methodological approaches essential to understand contemporary society and its problems, and to foster critical thinking;
   
   
3. Providing students a broadly based education, as well as preparing them for the learned professions;
   
   
4. Conducting research that contributes to the advancement of knowledge;
   
   
5. Extending its knowledge, skills, and resources to the community, state, and region;
   
   
6. Providing opportunities for life-long learning.
   
   
7. AUM encourages open and free inquiry and seeks to instill in its students ways of thinking, communicating, and learning that will be of enduring value.

Approved by Executive Council, September 20, 1989