Seattle Pacific University will be a place that masters the tools of rigorous learning, becoming a vibrant intellectual community.

We are not a church. We are a university. That means our vision rests on a commitment to rigorous learning. That means our focus is on equipping ourselves and our graduates with broad learning and with mastery in a discipline.

All across our campus we are asking these fundamental questions of the academy: How do people learn? How does the brain learn? We commit ourselves to being on this cutting edge. When it comes to learning, we commit ourselves to innovation. We will align our learning outcomes with our vision, build our curriculum around those goals, and commit to appropriate and thorough assessment.

We are saying here that we love the life of the mind. We love ideas. We love the vibrancy of intellectual exchange and discussion and debate. We are a university through and through. Inside and outside the classroom, we declare ourselves a learning community.

And while this venture is exciting and dynamic in and of itself, our special question, driven by our vision, is this: What do we do with our learning? With this signature, we affirm that deep learning is the best way to change the world.