Institutional Core Values

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1. Spiritual: To encourage students to embrace spiritual maturity and depth. 

2. Academic: To engage students with opportunities to integrate Biblical faith and life-long learning and support students in pursuing intellectual, personal, and professional development in academic pursuits.

3. Integrity: To exhibit ethical behavior in and beyond the academic setting, and be good stewards of our resources, acting as persons of high character guided by a commitment to transparency, fairness, and honesty. 

4. Respect: To embrace the doctrines of Faith, Family, Freedom, and Community, which ensure inclusiveness and diversity, understanding that every individual should be treated with professionalism, courtesy, and kindness. 

5. Responsibility: To be responsible and accountable for our actions in every situation, as it relates to our university, our community, and our nation. 

6. Christian Ethics: To emphasize that the spiritual path provides an ethical code that, when followed, will make for a better person, a better University, a better community, and a better world. 

7. Professional: To produce competent graduates in their professional training

8. Social: To cultivate a culture that redefines how we learn and live in a way that honors God and has a positive impact on our community for generations to come. 

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Institutional Core Objectives

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As an academic community of faith, John Melvin Institution seeks to guide students:

 

1. ​Engage unique individuals in challenging academic opportunities that allow them to reach and embrace their highest potential spiritually, academically, socially, and physically by promoting high-quality, Christ-centered education.

2. Cultivate a tradition of distinction by fostering college-level expertise in education while creating an in-depth, purposeful, and critical reflective educational experience based on disciplinary knowledge, problem-solving skills, leadership, personalized communication, interpersonal and personal health, and well-being that produces a meaningful degree of understanding that positively transforms students and the community they serve.

3. Create a love of learning, through the promotion of academics, that lasts a lifetime by recruiting and developing the world’s most promising, well-educated, and hard-working students who exhibit Christlike characteristics as they live out their purpose as productive members of society.

4. Recruit, develop, and support outstanding staff members who act with integrity and fidelity, inspire students, embrace challenges, and are committed to excellence and innovation in teaching and learning to promote a truly global University that benefits society.

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