OUR CIVIC MISSION We are proud to belong to the City of Swansea and the wider Swansea Bay City Region, and we celebrate that heritage. With campuses in three local authority areas, we recognise that our University is the region’s university, and that we have a responsibility to work with and for our community and Wales.
“It has been so inspirational to see the many ways our colleagues and students have stepped up to support our community in the fight against Covid-19. We should be proud of how our University has responded to the pandemic.” CS, Law celebration funds were repurposed to support student hardship, wellbeing and Covid-19 related research during the pandemic. STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE: In terms of our civic mission, achieving excellence means demonstrating why what we do matters to the people in our community, from our heritage-led regeneration of the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks and our cultural offering, to the provision of education and skills and the economic development of our region. We will earn their trust and respect, not just as a major employer or contributor to the regional economy, but as an organisation with the best interests of its community at heart. We will know we are achieving excellence because our community will tell us.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: We educate and train the teachers, doctors, nurses, paramedics and other key workers who are the backbone of our society, and who have been at the forefront of our community’s response to Covid-19. Discovery Student Volunteering has touched the lives of thousands of people in our region for more than fifty years, while our community-led arts and heritage projects help connect us to our past. We contribute to the cultural life of our community through our Taliesin Theatre, Great Hall and Egypt Centre, our South Wales Miners’ Library and Richard Burton Archives, and the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Ty’r Gwrhyd, our Welsh-language centre in the Swansea Valley, embraces its community through the promotion of Welsh, and we provide English language classes for the refugees and asylum seekers welcomed into our region. We also partner with the city and local sports teams to provide sports facilities shared with the community and have an ambition to establish Swansea city and our University as the champions of sport in Wales. Our public engagement and regular science festivals promote the value of higher education and our research, and our work with schools and colleges kindle imaginations. A GLOBAL OUTLOOK: We seek to deliver local solutions to the global challenges that affect us all. While our civic mission is rooted in our immediate region it extends to the impact we seek to make in communities worldwide.
We attract colleagues and students to Swansea from all over the world and we are committed to ensuring that the education and experiences we provide and the research we pursue are relevant both locally and internationally. We value alumni, the many coalitions and partnerships we have around the world, from the community-led projects we engage with to our friendship with Hillary Rodham Clinton and the development of our Global Challenges programme. We seek to work in genuine, open and equitable partnership, and to learn as much from others as we can. SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE: We are first and foremost a provider of education and lifelong learning opportunities that enable our students to acquire the knowledge and skills to help them achieve their ambitions, and we are committed to widening access to education for disadvantaged and socially excluded communities. Equally, we are committed to engaging in projects that support and improve the wellbeing of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community. We seek to empower communities and to help the voiceless find their voice, and we encourage our students to be ethical, engaged citizens. We have signed the UN Sustainable Development Goals Accord and acknowledged the climate emergency. The unique position of Wales as a country committed to the wellbeing of future generations affords us the opportunity to respond to its legislation and to promote sustainable development in all we do. We pull together to support our community in times of national crisis; in 2020 our Centenary
A SECOND CENTURY OF MAKING WAVES
A SECOND CENTURY OF MAKING WAVES
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