Making a statement

Lizzy Sieverding ’12 (left) and Olivia Cohn’12 wear T-shirts bearing the University’s new mission statement, announced in May: Learn, Discover, Heal, Create—and Make the World Ever Better. “A mission statement is not a statement about the future but rather about what is enduring,” says Provost Ralph Kuncl. “It encapsulates and articulates the purposes, characteristics, and values of an institution, the core purposes and the actions that derive from them. It should explain what drives us, and what it is we are trying to create.”