Augusta State University is committed to excellence in teaching, advancement of knowledge, and enrichment of the community in
a climate that fosters humane values and a life-long love of learning. With origins in the founding of the Academy of Richmond
County in 1783 and the creation of a separate Junior College of Augusta in 1925, its mission is predicated on the cultural, social,
and economic value of a strong liberal arts education. This enlarges its students' individual versatility, creative powers, cultural
appreciation, knowledge of the world, respect for others, and professional expertise.
Augusta State University strives to be a national model of excellence for its quality of service to the second largest metropolitan
area in Georgia. With a broad array of undergraduate programs and a select offering of graduate programs below the doctoral
level, it functions as a metropolitan, non-residential university for the area.
Open to the voices of all its members, the University serves a population diverse in race, background, age and preparation. It
provides access not only to those who are fully ready for college but also to the under prepared who show potential and to those
seeking the kind of academic challenge normally associated with elite, private institutions.
Emphasizing student-faculty contact, the University fosters intellectual growth through learning assistance, honors courses, and
student research. It promotes electronic information technologies and links students with the world community of scholarship.
The University collaborates with the Medical College of Georgia, Paine College, Augusta Technical Institute, Fort Gordon, and
P-12 schools. It makes constant, programmatic use of local industries, agencies, and institutions as laboratories for practical
learning experiences. In an area with a large health care industry, it provides undergraduate general education courses for the
Medical College students, prepares students to enter programs at that institution, and educates others who work in the medical
field. It is also the principal source of training for the area's teachers and business leaders.
Augusta State University is acutely conscious of its responsibility to a community where its graduates become teachers and
artists, professionals and civic leaders. It seeks to serve: enriching its area culturally, improving economic and social conditions,
and promoting personal and professional development. To these ends, the University cultivates intellectually vital faculty members
who are excellent in teaching, active in research, generous in service, and committed to its mission. The University also strives to
have its faculty, staff, curriculum and programs reflect the increasing diversity of the population and world from which its students
come.
Devoted to constant improvement, the University assesses its performance by evaluating its stewardship of resources,
responsiveness to area needs, involvement with its community, the response of the public it serves, and, most importantly, the
success of the students it educates.
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