Vision, Mission, and Core Values

Vision

 A faculty of outstanding teacher-scholars building a distinctive business learning community based on partnerships among students, faculty, businesses, and the southwest Florida region to prepare highly-skilled and capable leaders of tomorrow.

Mission

The Lutgert College of Business provides a high quality, student-centered learning environment to prepare students with the knowledge and skills needed to contribute to and take leading positions in business and society.   Our faculty are devoted to teaching excellence, scholarship, and service that enhances our academic and business communities and we are dedicated to building partnerships that foster the economic growth of the southwest Florida region and beyond. 


Core Values/ Guiding Principles

Diversity:   We foster a climate that enhances awareness of and respect for a diversity of people and ideas, actively encouraging it among our faculty, staff and students.

Economic Development:   We address current regional business issues through extensive outreach activities and partnerships on a local, regional, and global basis to facilitate the economic vitality and branding of Southwest Florida.

Environmental Sustainability:  We educate and develop future business professionals to recognize the value of and need for environmental sustainability as it relates to business practice and decision-making. 

Global perspective:   We emphasize the ability to perform effectively across cultures in addressing global business challenges and opportunities using the "second circle*" model.

Integrity:  We maintain the highest standards of ethics, honesty, mutual respect, and accountability for our college's faculty, staff and students.

Scholarship: We strive to produce scholarship that is useful to students and business practitioners and that enhances the visibility and reputation of our college.

* The second circle model was created by Dr. Richard Pegnetter as a process that expands the traditional college/university to international university partnership model to include the regional business community of Southwest Florida with the regional business community of our international university partner thus expanding the interaction to a "second circle". 

October 22, 2009