Transforming lives through higher education.
By drawing upon the Lutheran principle of free inquiry, Capital University:
Provides for personal growth by encouraging, enabling, and celebrating learning;
Prepares individuals to be knowledgeable, independent, critical thinkers - educated for lives of leadership and service in an increasingly diverse society;
Inspires individuals to be morally reflective, spiritually alive, and civically engaged.
Identity
Capital University is a comprehensive, independent university, grounded in the Lutheran tradition. It offers diverse undergraduate and graduate programs in the arts, sciences, and professions. It emphasizes excellence in teaching in a personalized, student-centered environment of robust academic challenge. It is committed to using multiple approaches to intellectual development in order to serve the lifelong learning of a heterogeneous population. It seeks to prepare individuals to live holistic lives of leadership and service.
Capital's Lutheran Identity
Capital University is a diverse academic community. Capital affirms and embodies the following Lutheran principles:
Gift, Celebration, Stewardship
Celebrating the world and our lives as God’s gifts, and accepting our responsibility as stewards of these gifts.
Freedom, Wholeness, Dialogue
Affirming the freedom to be whole persons engaged in open and critical dialogue in pursuit of truth.
Vocation, Service
Accepting Luther’s concept of vocation, to serve the needs of neighbor and world, and by embracing a diversity of vocations.