Penn State Values
Integrity • Respect • Responsibility • Discovery • Excellence • Community
"The Penn State Values should guide our actions and decisions as members of the Penn State community:
- Integrity: We act with integrity and honesty in accordance with the highest academic, professional, and ethical standards.
- Respect: We respect and honor the dignity of each person, embrace civil discourse, and foster a diverse and inclusive community.
- Responsibility: We act responsibly, and we are accountable for our decisions, actions, and their consequences.
- Discovery: We seek and create new knowledge and understanding, and foster creativity and innovation, for the benefit of our communities, society, and the environment.
- Excellence: We strive for excellence in all our endeavors as individuals, an institution, and a leader in higher education.
- Community: We work together for the betterment of our University, the communities we serve, and the world."
For more information on how Penn State lives our values, please review the The 2022 Living Our Values survey Links to an external site. which builds upon the Values and Culture surveys conducted in 2013 and 2017. The survey launches in November 2022 to all faculty, staff, graduate students and post-docs.
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