It is the development and delivery of an integrated curriculum designed to impart a coordinated set of analytical skills that will serve students throughout their entire lives and to transmit the values of citizenship our society holds high. It follows that teaching is at its best when it is tied to research and encourages students to experience academic inquiry first-hand and takes them through all the phases of creation, discovery, analysis, and scholarship. Experiential learning also takes the form of service to the community and internships in industry. Understanding the problems and constraints faced by the neighbors of the university offers an invaluable opportunity, not only to hone skills but also to become better citizens. Experiencing first-hand the business environment broadens students' appreciation of how their education is preparing them for life and allows them to bring that vision of the future back into their classrooms and labs.
Research is the creation, discovery, evaluation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge.
It is an integral part of education in that students must not only understand the results of discovery but also the processes that lead to it. It is an engine of improvement for our standard of living and economic development. It serves to satisfy our curiosity for how the natural and humanly constructed worlds operate in all their complexities. As such, it is not simply a market-oriented enterprise. The knowledge gained from it must be in the public domain so that our entire society may benefit from it.