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Infographic: TCU’s Shared Values

The Board of Trustees adopted four TCU values after considering input from more than 4,000 constituents.

Infographic: TCU’s Shared Values

The Board of Trustees adopted four TCU values after considering input from more than 4,000 constituents.

Brad Thompson, executive director of community projects and university events, said TCU’s shared values — officially adopted November 2023 — act as guidelines for making decisions “out of a place of values rather than convenience or comfort.”

Photo by Leo Wesson

LEARNING, DISCOVERY AND ETHICAL LEADERSHIP.

We embrace personal accountability and our shared responsibility to foster a community of leaders who have the uncompromising commitment and conscience to make a difference for the greater good.

Photograph of three students congregated together in what looks like a school laboratory. The students are each gazing forward in the same direction.

Photo by James Anger

IMPACTS PERSONAL AND ACADEMIC GROWTH.

We foster responsible and ethical leadership by actively participating in the learning process and the community around us.

Photograph of two purple Adirondack chairs facing a group of roughly a dozen students seated on the Campus Commons.

Photo by James Anger

A CULTURE OF BELONGING.

We celebrate our differences and serve one another with openness, trust, humility and mutual respect.

Image of a dancer in a white tutu, with their right hand extended in front of themselves and their left foot lifted 90 degrees behind them.

Photo by Joyce Marshall

OUR PURSUIT OF THE GREATER GOOD.

Achievement through critical thinking, intellectual inquiry and creative expression fuels lifelong learning and lasting impact.