About UNC Charlotte

Mission Statement

UNC Charlotte is a leading urban research university with a significant local-to-global impact. We transform lives, communities, and industries through accessible and affordable education, offering exemplary bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and professional programs. Our commitment to scholarship, innovation, and service drives our contributions to the ever-evolving needs of society. Through strategic partnerships and a focus on real-world applications, we prepare our graduates to excel in their careers and lead with purpose and integrity in a rapidly changing world.

Approved by the UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees on August 7, 2024 and the UNC Board of Governors on November 14, 2024.

OUR VISION

To be a globally recognized, emerging top-tier research university driving discovery and innovation, while advancing student access and social mobility, nurturing talent, fostering excellence, and ensuring equity.

GUIDING COMMITMENTS

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte comprises a large and diverse community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni who, together, pursue the institution’s mission and vision. To frame our actions and shape what’s next, we commit to:

  • Academic Excellence: Realizing higher education’s transformational power by providing an exemplary academic experience for all students.
  • Access and Social Mobility: Providing education that has profound social and economic value and lifelong impact for students from all backgrounds.
  • Discovery, Innovation, and Creativity: Engaging in inquiry to generate new knowledge, modes of expression, understanding, and solutions to society’s most significant challenges.
  • Community Engagement: Collaborating with local, state, national, and global partners to prepare our students to be engaged and effective citizens and to promote the common good through research and service that addresses a broad range of social needs.
  • Integrity and Respect: Ensuring the highest academic, professional, and ethical standards and a collegial culture that embraces different perspectives, civil discourse, and free expression, where all University members are treated with respect, fairness, and dignity.
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Eliminating barriers and creating an inclusive and equitable culture of belonging for students, faculty, and staff of different ages, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, identities, and abilities.
  • Environmental Stewardship: Pursuing sustainability and environmental justice to protect the planet through education, research, stewardship of scarce resources.
  • Performance and Accountability: Utilizing data to inform university policies, programs, and actions and to assess progress through relevant measures.