CSU, Chico Company Culture

CSU, Chico Mission Statement

California State University, Chico is a comprehensive university principally serving Northern California, our state, and nation through excellence in instruction, research, creative activity, and public service. The University is committed to assist students in their search for knowledge and understanding and to prepare them with the attitudes, skills, and habits of lifelong learning in order to assume responsibility in a democratic community and to be useful members of a global society.

CSU, Chico Vision Statement

California State University, Chico sees its distinctive residential context as an opportunity to create an active, diverse, healthy, caring, innovative, and green learning and working environment. We aim to create a vital and collaborative living and learning experience for students, who will appreciate and embrace the local, regional, and global communities of which we are all a part. We have a well respected and dedicated faculty, a superior staff, and committed leadership together with cutting-edge learning and information resources. All of these assets are placed within a beautiful and engaging physical environment. We are a place devoted to the academy's most fundamental tenets: reason, respect, civility, and community. We are a place where the passion of our commitments and clarity of our values find expression every day in the community of learning and serving we have fashioned. As surely as we are a special place of people and ideas, as boldly as we are the ""University of the North State,"" we aspire to be the ""University of Choice"" for all those who wish to share our vision and values.

CSU, Chico Values

• respect
• civility
• knowledge
• strong sense of intellectual community
• curiosity
• experience
• honesty
• integrity