Mission Integration has two mutually reinforcing dimensions: Personal Formation and Institutional Alignment.
Personal Formation
Personal Formation focuses on the growth and development of students, faculty, staff, and administrators as members of LMU’s educational community.
Grounded in the education of the whole person, Catholic intellectual tradition, Catholic social teaching, and Ignatian spirituality and discernment, this work supports opportunities for learning, reflection, dialogue, leadership, and professional development.
Through these experiences, members of the LMU community deepen their understanding of themselves and others, strengthen their capacity to engage across differences, and develop the knowledge and habits that help them contribute to the university’s mission.
Institutional Alignment
Institutional Alignment focuses on how LMU’s policies, practices, structures, culture, and decisions reflect and advance its mission.
Guided by the principles of human dignity, the common good, solidarity, and social justice, this work examines how the university can create learning and working environments that support the well-being, participation, and development of its community members.
This includes strengthening student support systems, examining institutional practices, improving collaboration across divisions, and identifying barriers that may limit opportunities to participate and succeed.
Connecting Personal Formation and Institutional Alignment
Personal Formation equips members of the LMU community to advance the university’s mission, while Institutional Alignment establishes the policies, practices, and environments that make the work possible.