Our Vision, Mission, and Values
Campus Saint-Jean at the University of Alberta is a place of inclusion, integration, and opportunity that serves Alberta's local and global francophonie through its unique, innovative, and quality teaching and research, ensuring the opportunity for post-secondary education in French to develop the next generation of multicultural, interdisciplinary, and bilingual leaders of the francophonie.
Vision
As a socioeconomic actor, Faculté Saint-Jean offers initial and ongoing training within a perspective of personal, social and sustainable development.
A unique crossroads of academic, linguistic and cultural life, Faculté Saint-Jean stands out for its interdisciplinarity, its desire for innovation and its language of use, French, within one of Canada's large English-language universities.
It reflects and reinforces Canada's linguistic duality, stimulates bilingualism and intercultural understanding within the international Francophone community, and presents itself as a guarantor of language rights and minority rights, including those of Aboriginal peoples.
Mission
The mission of Faculté Saint-Jean is to offer a postsecondary education in French through initial and ongoing training programs within a perspective of personal, social and professional development. Its programs help in learning the French language, stimulate innovation and creativity, and place value on the wellness of everyone and on environmental sustainability.
A veritable laboratory of cultural exchange and transformation, the Faculté celebrates diversity in the unity of its language and in a spirit of openness to the world. With these roots of identity and an exemplary community engagement, Faculté Saint-Jean equips students to become citizens of a constantly changing world.
Active, bilingual, and equipped with a high degree of literacy and scientific skills, these students will contribute to the evolution of societies and knowledge.