BLOG 1 - Mission Statements Blog Post
BLOG 1
week 1 - 27th of Jan. 2020
in this blog assignment, I will be chosen the mission statements from two different universities in different countries, one from my home country “Jordan “and the other is in the united states. I will try to compare the two statements and see the differences.
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Mission statement 1: The University of Jordan
http://www.ju.edu.jo/Pages/VisionAndMission.aspx
The University of Jordan is located in Amman, Jordan
it is considered as a public university that was established in 1962
reading its mission statement, the first thing that has crossed my mind is that I have never read it before, although I have obtained my undergraduate baccalaureate from this university in 2008.
Jordanian consider this university as one of the most prestigious and strong institutes in the country due to its wide range of programs in both graduate and undergraduate and its advanced facilities. Saying that, reading the mission statement of it, got me disappointed. Not only the weakness of its vision but the lack of a clear and strong explanation of what they aim and provide. They kept explaining the organizational structure and the administrative deputy but not a specific goal that this university aims to achieve.
Thus one of the sentences that was written and standout to me “constant process of assessing the standing of its academic programs” which is, in my opinion, is very essential to the academic development, as the programs in every university should follow the changing and recent demands of its users, the eager of the students for new and better programs and the availability of the current educators and professors to produce better quality and less un employments.
2. Mission statement 2: The University of Arizona
The other mission statement is from the University of Arizona, located in Tucson, Az.
It is considered as a land-grant public university
“We’ve always been about Tomorrow” that is the big first sentence you see once you open the mission statement of this university. In my opinion, this is a great starting makes you want to know how and in what way this tomorrow is been considered, continuo through the statement they have shared some stories to back their mission and how to achieve it and it shows experience and long term sustainability, but what it made it all better is talking about improvement, by tackling challenges and problem solving and this shows great potential and flexibility. It is short, direct and up to the point and I consider it a successful inviting statement.