College of Science & Technology

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MISSION STATEMENT

The College of Science and Technology (CST) promotes North Carolina Central University's commitment to excellence in instruction, research, service, and entrepreneurship. Through its culturally diverse faculty, staff, students, and alumni, the CST cultivates an interdisciplinary and comprehensive learning environment for our science community by:

• Preparing undergraduate and graduate students through engaging course work, experiential learning, and intensive training in basic, applied, or pedagogical research;
• Fostering computational and technological literacy, critical analysis and analytical thinking;
• Developing hands-on and literature based research skills for independent learning and effective communication of scientific ideas through writing and presentation;
• Encouraging students, faculty and staff to interact in a motivating and evolving research and learning community, developing essential skills for productive careers as scientists, academicians and professional leaders

VISION STATEMENT

The College of Science and Technology will harness its substantial intellectual resources to be a leading educator of underrepresented and underserved population of undergraduate and graduate students in the sciences and technology by providing a strong competitive, well-supported environment for teaching and research.