Mission, Vision & Values
MISSION
UFSJ, as a public institution, commits to educating, developing with excellence the activities of Teaching, Extension, and Research in an inseparable way, contributing to the prompting of changes and advances towards a fair and equal society, through the encounter, analysis, and construction of practices and knowledge, considering the academic, ethical, cultural, social, and environmental contexts.
VISION
To be a university committed to overcoming inequalities and humanity development. The notion of Humanity, here referred, does not refer merely to demographic data, but to a set of values, considered valid, necessary and worthy of being pursued, such as otherness, justice, human dignity, peoples’ rights, freedom, and cultural differences.
VALUES
UFSJ is based on the following values:
- Citizenship- ensuring individual and community freedom, rights, and responsibilities;
- Cooperation- interacting for the common good: locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally;
- Creativity- innovating theoretically and empirically, in the interdisciplinar construction of knowledge relevant to socio-environmental transformation;
- Dignity- treating and portraying every person and community with respect;
- Diversity- respecting and including people and communities, in their ways of being and acting, considering their distinctive characteristics;
- Equity - promote fair sharing of the fundamental conditions for human development;
- Ethics - acting in light of the ideas of universality, respect, integrity, and dignity of all subjects under the law;
- Sustainability - producing ethically responsible knowledge, aware that socioeconomic development cannot be dissociated from environmental preservation and conservation.