At La Sierra University, our Seventh-day Adventist heritage is the foundation upon which our educational philosophy rests.
Students are to be open to the future, striving to fulfill their potentialities.
They are to seek truth, to engage with a reality other than themselves, understanding rather than striving for control. They are to give to enrich their world. The Christian heritage and commitments of La Sierra University prompt teachers to explore moral dilemmas with students, and to address academic issues from a religious standpoint likely to encourage moral sensitivity. General education courses in religion and ethics foster moral commitment and moral judgment. Other general education courses, and the diversity of the student population itself, encourage the development of apt moral judgment by confronting students with ideas, cultures, and attitudes different from their own, thus fostering the willingness to listen sensitively and respond courteously, that openness to others that is a hallmark of moral responsibility.