Executive Summary

Who We Are

Our Vision

To be global leaders in transforming lives through nursing education, professional practice, and scholarship.

Our Mission

As a diverse body of nurse educators, we inspire and prepare the next generation of practicing nurses, advanced clinicians, educators, and researchers. Embodying caring, compassion, and excellence, our aim is to empower faculty and students to exemplify wholistic care in themselves and others. By creating a supportive learning environment, we foster personal and professional growth. We enable our nurses to engage with the global community through selfless service and reflect God’s love to others.

Our Values

The University affirms these values as central to its view of education.

  • Compassion—Reflects the love of God with respect, mercy, and empathy.
  • Excellence—Exceeds expectations with effectiveness, reliability, and efficiency.
  • Humility—Puts self-importance aside for the greater good of others.
  • Integrity—Carries out actions with honesty and trustworthiness.
  • Justice—Commits to fostering a welcoming environment.
  • Teamwork—Collaborates to achieve a shared purpose.
  • Wholeness—Loved by God, growing in health, living with purpose in community.

 

SN Dedication Service

We carry our motto throughout each of our strategic pillars. Learn more about each pillar and discover which element of our motto it embodies.

Inspire. Transform. Serve.

Strategic Pillars

Strategic Growth

  • Develop compelling transition from UG to Graduate study.
  • Collaborate with North American Division (NAD) sister schools.  
  • Increase enrollment.
  • Create LLU AS Health Sciences Program with Allied Health.
  • Develop faculty practice clinics.
  • Build additional facilities to expand classroom, lab, study and office space.

Educational Excellence

  • Prepare professional nurses by way of competency-based education.
  • Provide experiential learning using innovative and dynamic teaching strategies.
  • Facilitate student success on national nursing licensure and certification exams.

Financial Stability

  • Define and leverage value of LLUSN degree.
  • Provide affordable education.
  • Prioritize and maintain budget surplus.
  • Expand scholarship opportunities.

Wholistic Faculty and Student Development

  • Foster and maintain expert teaching.
  • Provide faculty mentor support.
  • Enhance campus safety to ensure an environment where all can thrive.
  • Nurture faculty, staff, and student well-being by offering physical, relational, intellectual, spiritual and mental resources.
  • Collaborate with clinical partners for evidence-based practice.

Community and Global Engagement

  • Generate a strategic plan for global engagement.
  • Build and strengthen collaboration with community networks.
  • Advance service learning opportunities in local and global mission trips.

Research Growth

  • Advance faculty expertise in multiple methodologies.
  • Strengthen faculty areas of research emphases.
  • Generate collaborations with scholars, clinicians, and students.
  • Increase faculty participation in dissemination of results using traditional and novel platforms.