Friends University are rooted both in the liberal arts tradition and in the Christian intellectual tradition. They insist that their students learn, inside and outside the classroom, to integrate their intellectual lives with their social and spiritual lives in ways that will improve the world.
As searchers and learners, we support curiosity and research, and assign great value to diversity of experience. As people who value such diversity and openness, we approach new situations and people with good will and humility. We believe in equity and in the dignity of all people.