Mission Statement

The primary purpose of Barry University, as stated in the Charter, is to offer quality education. Furthermore, Barry commits itself to assuring a religious dimension, and to provide community service and presence within a more caring environment.

NATURE

Barry University is an independent, coeducational Catholic institution of higher education which fosters academic distinction in the liberal arts and professional studies within the Judeo-Christian and Dominican traditions. Founded in 1940, the university is sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan, and is governed by an independent, self-perpetuating Board of Trustees.

ENVIRONMENT

Barry University is a comprehensive university located in Miami Shores, with programs primarily serving South Florida. We seek to attract a diverse student body, including traditional and non-traditional students, from a variety of geographic, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds. We seek to recruit and retain faculty members who are dedicated to teaching and advising; to the search for and dissemination of truth through scholarship, research, and creative activities; and to service both to the university and to the larger community. We seek to maintain a staff that supports institutional needs in order to enhance the quality of university life. We seek to provide a learning environment that challenges students to accept intellectual, personal, ethical, spiritual, and social responsibilities.

BARRY UNIVERSITY STRIVES

• to help its students to understand that God is experienced and encourage them to seek a fitting response to the presence of God in their lives.
• to afford the opportunity to examine the fundamental questions of human experience and the response to these questions proposed, in the liberal arts tradition, by theology, philosophy, the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences.
• to provide programs in the liberal arts and professional studies, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, giving students a basis for continued personal and professional growth.
• to recognize the importance of experiential learning and on-and off-campus education of adult students.
• to contribute to international understanding, world peace, and community self-awareness by providing an international dimension to its student body and educational curricula.
• to demonstrate concern for the individual in an atmosphere in which students, conscious of their own dignity as persons, become aware of their attendant responsibility toward other persons and toward the environment.
• to encourage its students to assume community leadership in religious, social, economic, and political affairs as a means of effecting needed social change.