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Role and Scope
Texas Woman’s
University is a Doctoral, Professions Dominant public university,
primarily for women, offering baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral
degree programs. A teaching and research institution, the
University emphasizes the liberal arts and sciences and specialized or
professional studies. Texas Woman’s University is the largest
university primarily for women in the United States.
The University is
committed to creating a campus environment which empowers students of
different ages, social status, and ethnicity to obtain the essential
knowledge, skills, independence, and confidence needed to enhance their
prospects of success. Students are provided numerous opportunities
to express their points of view, to test ideas, to make decisions, and to
succeed as leaders.
The University offers
high quality education in the liberal arts and sciences and professional
studies. The University also conducts research to enhance the
progress and welfare of the people of Texas, the nation and the world in a
time of rapid technological and social change. Texas Woman’s
University serves as a source of knowledge and as a depository of
information about women and their contributions to the history and
advancement of the state of Texas,
the nation, and the world.
Health-related studies
and graduate education are integral to the mission of Texas Woman’s
University. Texas Woman’s University has for many years been
a regional and national leader in offering nursing and health science
programs. These programs have evolved, as knowledge and technology
in the health sciences have changed, to meet diverse health care
needs. Texas Woman’s University continues as the largest
provider of nursing and allied health professionals in the state and one
of the largest in the nation. The University offers co-educational
opportunities for study at the undergraduate or graduate level.
Doctoral programs are
offered in allied health sciences, education, human ecology, kinesiology,
library and information studies, nursing, and selected areas of the arts,
humanities, and natural and social sciences.
Texas Woman’s
University, with its main campus in Denton
and two health science centers in Dallas and Houston, serves not only the
north central region, but also the entire state of Texas. The Dallas
Center, with sites at Parkland
and Presbyterian Hospitals, offers academic programs in a
variety of health science fields to serve this major area of Texas. The Houston Center,
located in the Texas
Medical Center,
provides an excellent setting for students of health science and related
fields. The graduate programs in health care administration,
nursing, nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy, and physical
therapy offered in Houston
are in the vanguard of graduate-level, professional health education in
the Southwest.
The University provides
many special opportunities for its students, including independent study,
clinical education, and practical work experience. Worthy of
special note are large and diverse cooperative education, practica and
internship programs which integrate classroom study with planned and
supervised work experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Texas Woman’s
University is a pioneer in preparing women to pursue careers in such
fields as allied health, librarianship, nursing, nutrition, social work,
and teaching. As other opportunities have become available, the
University has made a special commitment to attract women to study in
mathematics, the natural and physical sciences, and business.
Undergraduate and selected graduate programs are offered to increase the
participation of women in fields in which women have been historically
under represented.
Texas Woman’s University
educates women to excel and to assume leadership roles in both
traditional and nontraditional endeavors. The training of women as
leaders and decision makers is crucial to the progress of women and
society. The University seeks to provide an academic and social
climate for women to develop and use their leadership skills to serve
society. Through work with campus and student organizations, as
well as through involvement in institutional governance, Texas
Woman’s University affords students formal and informal
opportunities to become leaders.
Texas Woman’s
University occupies a special niche in public higher education in Texas
as an institution, primarily for women, which offers a broad range of
baccalaureate programs in the liberal arts and sciences and professional
fields; graduate programs which emphasize the health sciences, human
services professions, traditional female fields, as well as selected
areas of arts and sciences; and a campus environment which cultivates
leaders. It conducts basic and applied research with special focus
on interdisciplinary work in education, nutrition, health and natural
sciences, women’s studies, and family studies.
Approved by the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board October 2005.
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