The University provides an education that develops the student's intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and physical attributes. It prepares students to pursue lives with meaning and purpose and to become responsible and contributing members of society. As an American university with a global perspective, Christopher Newport University enhances student awareness and appreciation of the diversity that enriches us while building a community which unites us. The University focuses on excellence in teaching and scholarship. The liberal arts provide the foundation for quality undergraduate programs in the humanities, in the natural and social sciences, and in business and the professional disciplines.
Graduate programs provide students and faculty opportunities for advanced scholarship and learning.
Graduate and undergraduate research brings students and faculty together to increase knowledge. Teaching, research, and community service benefit the constituencies of the University, the Virginia Peninsula, the Commonwealth, the nation, and the world. History Christopher Newport University is the youngest comprehensive university in the Commonwealth of Virginia. At the same time, it came into being as part of the oldest academic institution in the Commonwealth. For this reason, then, it combines the best of both long heritage and the contemporary.