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Mission, Vision & Values
Our Mission
Stony Brook University has a five-part mission:
- to provide comprehensive undergraduate, graduate, and professional education of the highest quality;
- to carry out research and intellectual endeavors of the highest international standards that advance knowledge and have immediate or long-range practical significance;
- to provide leadership for economic growth, technology, and culture for neighboring communities and the wider geographic region;
- to provide state-of-the-art innovative health care, while serving as a resource to a regional health care network and to the traditionally underserved;
- to fulfill these objectives while celebrating diversity and positioning the University in the global community.
Our Vision
As New York’s leading public flagship and a first-choice institution, Stony Brook University achieves transformative impact by driving innovation and inclusive excellence in education, research, health care, economic and cultural development, and social mobility.
Our Values
Stony Brook University is more than a place – it is a community of diverse people sharing a common mission and values. At SBU,
our values guide our day-to-day interactions and define what it means to be a member
of this community.
- Community: We support and empower each member of our Stony Brook community, acknowledging that our students, faculty, and staff all have distinct needs and make unique contributions.
- Excellence:We maintain the highest standards, acting with integrity in all we do to build upon our legacy as one of the nation’s great public research universities.
- Equity: We ensure that each member of our community feels a sense of belonging, is afforded equal opportunity, and is treated with dignity and respect.
- Collaboration: We take interdisciplinary approaches to complex challenges and transcend our campus borders to deepen our powerful and lasting impact.
- Innovation: We foster a dynamic, engaging, and motivating environment that encourages ambitious discovery, creativity, and bold, unconventional thinking to guide and enhance our impact on the world.