Mission & Purpose
Allied American University is committed to providing online distance education degree programs for a diverse population of adult learners in a student-centered academic environment. The curriculum offered by AAU is continuously evaluated to ensure a practical nature and a focus on both established and emerging markets. AAU's strategic plan is to emphasize educational programs that lead to the acquisition of measurable knowledge and skills necessary to achieve information literacy, career advancement, personal enrichment, leadership, and service to the community.
Vision & Institutional Objectives
Allied American University's vision is to be a respected leader in providing quality, affordable instruction resulting from a system of clear communication of mission, goals, and objectives; and to a continuous process of self-examination tied to data collection and analysis. In pursuing this vision, AAU strives to fulfill the following institutional objectives:
- Offer a dynamic, interactive distance education environment which engages students in the learning process through a multi-media learning experience and through systematic contact with faculty and student support advisors
- Develop competence in communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and information utilization together with an interest in lifelong learning to enhance opportunities for sustained success
- Provide immediate and ongoing constructive feedback and support to promote student learning and motivation
- Provide clear learning outcomes, detailed instructions, and assessment for all courses to ensure course mastery and student success
- Engage in a constant process of continuous improvement through course assessment and revision to promote student mastery of the course, provide the most recent updates of content and objectives, and to ensure relevance to regulatory requirements
- Embrace and promote diversity in policies and practices to prepare students to live and work successfully in an increasingly diverse workplace and society
- Broaden access to degree programs for underserved constituencies through distance education technologies
Core Values
The core values and dispositions of AAU can be defined as a set of fundamental principles and values that are aligned with the mission of the University and guide the practice and development of its curriculum, faculty, students, and staff.
Integrity
AAU promotes and conducts its operations and makes its public representations in an ethical manner that is both open and collaborative. It is committed to practices which are fair, honest, and objective in dealing with students, faculty, staff, and stakeholders at all levels of the community.
Open Access
The university provides opportunities for varied life-long educational options for non-traditional, underserved communities, and all student populations. This policy embraces and promotes diversity in all practices and operations and strives to create diverse learning environments that incorporate varied ideas, values, backgrounds, and beliefs that prepare learners to work in a diverse learning and work environment.
Ethics
AAU fosters a learning environment that promotes responsible, principled behavior that respects the human dignity of all members of the community.
Customer Service
AAU offers students the promise of "Prepare Today , Excel Tomorrow." This promise extends to all students enrolled at Allied American University by ensuring that its curriculum, delivery, and support services:
- Remain accountable to students and to the public for fulfilling its mission
- Respond to complaints, inquiries, and requests in an appropriate and timely manner
- Are adaptive and responsive to the needs of its constituents
- Seek innovative, imaginative, and effective solutions to its challenges
- Consistently and openly assess its operations in a continuous process of self- assessment and by inviting external evaluations by public agencies.
Quality
AAU maintains a strong commitment to standards that meet or exceed those set by most accrediting and regulatory bodies in all aspects of its educational activities, outcomes, and support services. It continuously monitors and assesses practices, policies, and procedures to continuously strengthen the overall effectives of its curriculum, instructional delivery, and operations.
Effective Written and Oral Communication
Allied American University promotes the development of effective oral and written communication skills that lead to the clear expression of ideas, feelings, and information in a purposeful manner. Effective communication has the benefit of building trust and respect through honest and direct discourse.
Critical Thinking
AAU believes that one of the most important outcomes of its curriculum is that its students develop a disciplined process of actively conceptualizing, analyzing, and applying information that enables them to use that information as a guide to action. Skills of critical thinking include development and use of essential tools of inquiry; and purposeful, self-regulatory judgment that results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference. Taken together, these skills should lead to reflective thought and a tolerance for ambiguity.
Respect for the Value of Learning
AAU values the development of intellectual curiosity, pursuit of academic excellence, and personal and professional growth throughout their lives and the promotion of these attitudes in the communities they affect.
