Wilson University

University Mission Statement

Wilson Pacific University empowers students to become world class leaders through spiritual formation and Christian higher education in an environment that embodies the Pentecostal ethos.

Vision Statement

Wilson Pacific University will be the university of choice for Apostolic Pentecostal churches and individuals and others seeking a biblically based approach to education. We will be recognized for excellent, widely accessible programs that develop dynamic, spiritually mature leaders with the gifts and professional skills necessary to succeed in their respective callings and chosen
careers.

Core Values

As a Christian university we are committed to these core values:

1. To equip leaders in their chosen professions to contribute authentic help and hope to their world in contextually appro-priate ways.
2. To remain overtly apostolic in faith and practice and in Pentecostal in ethos.
3. To be responsible stewards of the resources entrusted to us.
4. To provide a context for engaging intellectual, ethical, lifestyle, and cultural issues by discerning and formulating Christ-centered responses to these challenges.
5. To provide academic programs, delivery systems, and organizational and physical infrastructures that are exceptional in every way.
6. To conduct research in order to act as a change agent in communicating the unmatched potential for human whole-ness, which is found in the Christian message.
7. To serve as a leading center of excellence for Christian thought and action.

WPU Philosophy

Wilson Pacific University has a foundational philosophy that provides a contextual framework for the pursuit of its mission.

1. Humans, as citizens of an amenable universe, are uniquely bearers of potential which is greater than the sum of finite individuality. Herein is the source of human dignity, destiny, and responsibility.
2. Individual wholeness originates in the human spirit.
3. Full individuality is possible only through full participation in one’s world.
4. Individual human worth assumes a distinction that transcends mere survival, making creative and substantive contribu-tions to the greater society a worthy and fulfilling pursuit. Society is more than a collective effort to survive. Herein is the meaning and nobility of work.
5. Human potential is to be developed. WPU is an agent of exploration and development of this potential by facilitating in-dividual efforts to bring this potential from abstract vision to concrete reality.
6. As a Christian university, WPU attempts to lead the student to explore these challenges and possibilities in the antici-pation, direction, and understanding of the Christian message.
7. WPU is established on the premise that the public good is affected most enduringly by focusing on individual good. Public character of the community is the cumulative total of individual character, knowledge, and wisdom. Thus, WPU is committed to, at the highest standard possible, optimum development of individual student character, learning, un-derstanding, and application of these principles to everyday life.