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Mission Statement
How we interpret our mission
Pursuing knowledge: Research is a core function of a University. Our programmes are informed by research and scholarship, and involve staff who are active in basic research, applied research or engagement with business and government.
Sharing knowledge: Our research and scholarship provide a store of knowledge and skills that we disseminate through academic publication, teaching, public comment, applied research and consulting.
Business, Economics and Management: From our capital city location we research and teach to meet the needs of the business and government sectors, while also encouraging our best students to consider research degrees or academic careers.
Global Perspective: We play a distinctive role in connecting New Zealand to the world, through international linkages in research, learning and scholarship, and through the diversity of our staff and student body.
Stakeholders: We engage with the international community of scholars and create high quality educational outcomes for students. Our research, teaching and scholarship support and extend the capabilities of business and government, particularly in the Wellington region.
Treaty of Waitangi: We commit to the principles of the Treaty and we reflect this in our teaching, research and stakeholder engagement.
Vision Statement
How we interpret our vision
Scholarship: We believe scholarship to be the systemic and fruitful combination of research, teaching and learning. We believe in seeing the links rather than the separations between these three aspects of our raison d’etre. We believe in research driven teaching; in learning focused teaching; and in teaching led research. The FCA strongly supports VUW’s promotion of inter-disciplinary scholarship.
Hub: We want the FCA to be regarded as a meeting place of theory and practice, of business and government, of private and public business, of research, teaching and learning, with the aim of adding to New Zealand’s capital development. We believe in the potential of inter-activity excellence at the nexus of teaching, research and professional practice.
Capital development: We define ‘capital development’ broadly to incorporate economic capital, public capital, human capital, intellectual capital, technological capital and social capital. The term also refers to our place: Wellington – New Zealand’s ‘Creative Capital’.
Values
The FCA, as part of Victoria University of Wellington, values:
- by maintaining and protecting the academic freedom of our students and staff.
- by recognising that our most valuable assets are the specialist academic and professional knowledge and skills of our staff and the intellectual achievements of our students and staff
- by fostering a community of learning involving all students and staff.
- by providing a supportive environment that will enable students and staff to develop to their full potential.
- by acting to ensure that all members of the University. community are treated with respect and concern for their rights.
- by providing students and staff with the opportunity to be involved in the making of decisions that affect them.
- by pursuing equity in educational and employment opportunity.
- by promoting research, teaching and scholarship in Māori language, culture and history.
- by recognising, supporting and encouraging our multicultural community.
- by recognising, supporting and encouraging interdisciplinary scholarship.
- in developing future teaching and learning opportunities.
- in the way we organise and manage the University.
- by being receptive to new and creative ideas.
- by promoting the highest quality in teaching, scholarship and research.
- by embedding quality in all that we do.
- by upholding the highest ethical and professional standards.
- by behaving in an open, honest and consistent way.