MISSION STATEMENT: The mission of Everglades University is to provide quality education to adult learners of diverse backgrounds in a collaborative environment where each individual has the opportunity to achieve personal growth. The University seeks to accomplish its mission by combining small class sizes and innovative programs with traditional academic values. The University supports the academic endeavor and service, to deliver graduate and undergraduate programs both on campus and online.PHILOSOPHY: In today's society, there is a need for a university that offers its students a quality education in an atmosphere of personalized attention. Everglades University's goal is to train the career-minded individual and offer an education that will provide an employable and skilled person. Everglades University graduates will be prepared with theprofessional skills necessary to meet the needs of our society. Inherent in the goals established for Everglades University holds the belief that the learning process takes place in a variety of ways. For this reason our philosophy privileges flexibility, individualization, and previous knowledge and skills. Everglades University offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs that will prepare students to enter and advance in their desired fields of study. The faculty of Everglades University believes that instruction is an art as well as a science and is a dynamic process that develops both the skill and the intellect of career-minded individuals. Everglades University's education is an interactive process. Our graduates will become professionals in their chosen fields and play a critical role in the future economic growth and competitiveness of our society. Everglades University affirms that all members of the academic faculty share the responsibility for establishing, implementing, and evaluating its educational programs. Further, Everglades University believes that members of industry must also participate in this process, and to that end, it has assembled advisory boards comprised of professionals, employers, and educators. It is also the philosophy of Everglades University that an individual shall not be denied admission to any program because of race, color, national origin, handicap, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or marital status.
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