“My dream is that SPU students will be trained to carry a holistic gospel, a gospel that saves, reconciles, and empowers people, especially the poor and oppressed of the world.”

John Perkins, Civil Rights Leader and Partner With SPU in the John Perkins Center for ReconciliationIf we are going to achieve our distinctive vision to engage the culture and change the world, we must know clearly who we are, what we are doing, and where we are going. What are the signature commitments for our university? What does our vision really mean, concretely, as we go about our work day in and day out?

In 2014: A Blueprint for Excellence, we articulate five signature commitments that will guide our actions and choices over the next 10 years. In all of our planning, we held the conviction that we must define, clearly and distinctly, the deeper patterns of what we are all about. We believe we need this intense focus. Any organization needs such focus. We need clarity of purpose in order to sharpen our strategy. In the end, the measure of our success will be how well we live up to these signatures.

It is just this combination of signatures that defines who we are as a university. Coupled with our unique vision, we suspect that no other institution would own or adopt just this combination. This is who we are.

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