We have the responsibility to students, staff, and faculty to help them grow personally and professionally. We have a responsibility to society to contribute to its social, aesthetic, and economic well-being. Our social responsibility extends to offering informed criticism even when that criticism may not be well received, and we maintain an internal environment that will nurture this important contribution. Flexibility, change, and constant improvement are essential to our continued success. In instruction, research, and service activities, we honor and impart principles of academic honesty, freedom, and integrity.
Diversity is a key to our success.
The highest aspiration of a university is to free people's minds from ignorance, prejudice, and provincialism and to stimulate a lasting attitude of inquiry. Oregon State University shares this aspiration with universities everywhere. Oregon State University's basic goal is to create a better academic environment for the intellectual and humane development of the men and women of the academic community and to maintain OSU as a center in which the freedoms to think, to learn, to relate, to experiment, and to develop standards of criticism and excellence are encouraged. The next full University accreditation is scheduled for 2001. In the College of Science, the Chemistry degree program is approved by the American Chemical Society.