Southern Oregon University is a regionally-engaged learning community committed to being the educational provider of choice for learners throughout their lives.

• We inspire curiosity and creativity, compel critical thinking, foster discovery, and cultivate bold ideas and actions.
• We achieve student success, professional preparation, and civic engagement through service excellence, evolving technologies, and innovative curriculum.
• We foster access, equity, inclusion and diversity in thought and practice.
• We prepare our learners to be responsible, engaged citizens in our democracy.
• We promote economic vitality, sustainability, cultural enrichment, and social well-being in our region, the state, the nation, and the world.

Southern Oregon University will become an inclusive, sustainable university for the future that guides all learners to develop the knowledge, capacities, and audacity to innovate boldly and create lives of purpose.

• The well-being and success of all learners
• Critical thinking, discovery, and engaged learning
• Equity, diversity, and inclusion
• Creativity and collaboration
• Excellence, continuous improvement, and accountability
• A healthy, safe, and civil campus
• Economic vitality and environmental sustainability
• Improving our community, region, and world