Core Values

The institution's core values guide the university's commitment and aspirations to promote student learning and success, faculty scholarship and research, and community engagement. The following seven values what the university stands for and are, therefore, of intrinsic value expressed in its ethos and fundamental commitments:

Academic Excellence

We are a community that pursues excellence in the academy whose commitment is vested in teaching, learning, and professional preparation to serve the local, national, and international communities. We treasure the institutional autonomy and the veracity necessary to uphold the highest standards of intellectual inquiry and academic freedom.

Champion Student Success

We are a community that strives to nurture students for success in their academic journey, graduate promptly, and fully realize their academic and potential as they benefit from their unsurpassed education and preparation rigor.

Acts of Integrity

 We are a community that strives to engage in honest communications, fairness, ethical manners, and accountability for words and deeds in all University activities and decision-making.

Commitment to Inclusivity

We are a community that embraces inclusive excellence where all individuals' unique attributes and contributions are valued to enhance the richness of our academic environment regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, political beliefs, spiritual perspectives or other ideologies.

Immersion in Innovation

We are a community that dedicates its stakeholder to discovering and applying knowledge in teaching and learning and developing innovative products and processes to form collaboration across disciplines to stimulate and create positive transformation through teaching, research, and service.

Value of Added Engagement

We are a community that encourages and supports its faculty, staff, and students in all forms of scholarship, including acts of discovery and expansion knowledge and truth.

Power of Technology

We are a community that values the enduring power of technology and information systems and the resources entrusted to our care. With vigilance, we will maintain the integrity of these critical assets. 

Guided by its mission, vision, and core values, Leighton University is committed to the belief that everyone should be given a high quality and accessible educational opportunity to acquire, develop, and extend his or her innate abilities for successful careers, be responsible citizenship, and be a lifelong learner to contribute and compete, with confidence, in a diverse and global community.