Mission Statement
In 2023, the College completed a five-year strategic planning process called “CJC 2028.” Below is a mission statement, goals and values and guiding principles that have emerged from that process.
Mission
The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment, preeminent scholarship, cross-disciplinary education, superior skills development, and collaboration spanning the science and practice of communication to produce significant societal impact on a local, state, and global scale.
Goals
- Build on CJC’s scholarly excellence to advance competitive advantages and drive innovation
- Enhance CJC’s recruitment, retention, and placement of diverse and multicultural faculty, staff, and students
- Develop an environment that fosters and advances equity and a culture of active participatory inclusiveness, collaboration and collegiality
- Elevate student career preparation, readiness, cultural competency, and competitive standing for evolving professions
- Acquire and continually refresh infrastructure and technology to be innovative, forward-looking, and cutting-edge
Values and Guiding Principles
- We are devoted to being an inclusive, empathetic and welcoming environment to all members of the CJC community and beyond, embracing our different backgrounds, viewpoints and lived experiences
- We will serve our communities through our teaching, service, creative and research endeavors
- We will strive for both local and global reach and impact through our work and by preparing students to work in a global environment
- We are dedicated to teaching and embodying ethical decisions that acknowledge our social responsibilities
- We are grounded in forward-thinking scholarship that acknowledges a changing media environment and the translation of that scholarship in ways that impact and benefit humanity
- We integrate theoretical and practical education and experience
- We are dedicated to providing immersion experiences that benefit students, staff, faculty and the local community
- We value and support speech that exercises our freedom of expression under the First Amendment
- We hold ourselves accountable to meeting and fulfilling these principles