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.