AUW Mission STATEMENT

AUW seeks:

• To educate Asian women to become highly motivated and effective professionals, leaders, and service-oriented citizens of the region and thereby promote the development of and intercultural understanding among the peoples of Asia;

• To provide a vibrant and diverse residential learning community where highly talented women  and those with uncommon potential from many cultural and religious backgrounds can grow both intellectually and personally;

• To create a student-focused learning environment where the humanities and natural and social sciences establish a broad base of inquiry, where disciplinary and independent studies provide learning depth, and where applied studies in both the general studies and  majors’ curricula require students to link theoretical understanding with contemporary issues and challenges facing Asia and the world; and

• To focus student learning on the acquisition of intellectual abilities (e.g., developing critical thinking skills applied to multifaceted problems), reflective personal growth (e.g., coming to accept and appreciate persons and cultures different from one’s own), leadership abilities (e.g., developing collaborative solutions to complex problems and communicating them well), and a service oriented outlook (e.g., coming to understand that the life of work and concern for one’s community are interdependent).

The Asian University for Women seeks to graduate women who will be skilled and innovative professionals, service-oriented leaders in the businesses and communities in which they will work and live, and promoters of intercultural understanding and sustainable human and economic development in Asia and throughout the world.