Mission and Goals

The mission of American University of Sharjah (AUS) is to achieve and maintain preeminence as a coeducational institution based upon American models and grounded in the history and culture of the Arab Gulf region.

AUS is a not-for-profit university that:

1. Admits students on the basis of their academic qualifications regardless of race, color, gender, religion, disabilities, age, or national origin.
2. Employs faculty and offers academic programs that are equivalent to those at leading institutions of higher education in the United States
3. Integrates liberal studies, professional education, and co-curricular and extracurricular learning experiences to provide its graduates both breadth and depth of knowledge.
4. Values strong relationships with its alumni, the public, the media, and appropriate governmental entities.
5. Encourages and supports research and scholarship by its faculty and students and serves as a resource for the community.
6. Provides students with a rich and varied campus life that fosters personal growth, maturity and a sense of social responsibility.
7. Operates effectively and efficiently, develops and uses its fiscal and human resources wisely, and encourages wide participation in its governance.

AUS Goals

The goals for American University of Sharjah are intended to guide the institution in fulfilling its mission.

AUS is a student-centered university that strives to:

1. Recruit national and international students from a variety of ethnic, religious and social backgrounds who are capable of and motivated for academic success.
2. Periodically evaluate its faculty and its academic programs to assure that they meet the personal and professional needs of students; are appropriate relative to resources; further the university’s mission; and foster teaching effectiveness.
3. Offer courses and curricula to assure students a coherent array of general education options plus professional specializations that  expose them, both in and outside the classroom, to world cultures, religions, arts and traditions, as well as scientific developments and technologies. 
4. Inform its alumni, the public, and governmental agencies of its programs, its needs, its successes, its opportunities and its challenges.
5. Assure that active research and scholarship inform and improve teaching and learning, and contribute to the intellectual traditions as well as the economic progress of the nation and the region.
6. Involve students in athletic activities, artistic performances, recreational events, social clubs and community service activities to enhance their personal growth and development and their sense of social responsibility.
7. Improve its administrative and governance processes through continuing development, evaluation, and judicious allocation of resources.

• Objectives 2005–2010
• Planning Structure
• Semester Milestones (Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007)