Excellence: We are committed to pursuing excellence in every aspect of university life. We look at excellence as an idea that is more than a benchmark, more than a goal, more than a distant destination. In the context of the academic project, excellence is the foundation of rigour in our scholarship, including the advancement, imparting, and the application of knowledge. It informs our learning and teaching, research, wider engagement, as well as our management and governance processes.
Innovation and impact: Our goal is to impactfully support societal development in promoting good health and well-being. We value and encourage creativity and strive to identify, question, and challenge the status quo. Our knowledge will continue to contribute to the development of the Free State, South Africa, and the African continent and to advance global knowledge and understanding.
Accountability: We recognise our obligation towards our students, staff, stakeholders, society in general, and the global knowledge community. To this end, we will be stewards of good governance who are accountable, responsible, and dutiful in our actions. We will be conscientious in our utilisation of the financial and physical resources of the School of Nursing as well as concerning our impact on the wider environment.
Care: We are committed to creating a climate that is not only conducive to high-quality teaching, learning, and scholarship but doing this in ways that emphasise the well-being and happiness of the School of Nursing community. We are therefore committed to caring for ourselves, our students, our fellow humans, and the natural environment in a respectful, inclusivity, and empathic approach.
Social justice: In pursuing social justice, we seek to advance the values of human dignity through ethical and transparent institutional responsiveness. We interpret social justice within the South African historical context to entail an emphasis on inclusiveness, the reduction of inequality, and the creation of opportunities and pathways out of poverty and dispossession. Our commitment to social justice is our call to everyone to build on the productive foundations laid by all and to build new structures in the pursuit of truths and practices that will grant human dignity to everybody.