Guiding Principles and Pledge

Guiding Principles in our Community

The Bryant Pledge was modeled after the principles outlined in Ernest Boyer’s Campus Life: In Search of Community. Boyer maintains that the most successful universities model and support several guiding principles. They foster those principles within the campus community. These principles were adapted to Bryant University as follows:

Bryant University is an educationally purposeful community – a place where faculty, staff and students work together to strengthen teaching and learning on campus.

The campus is a place where high standards of civility are set and violations are challenged. Bryant University is a community whose members speak and listen carefully to each other.

Bryant University is a place where each person is valued and where a respectful and welcoming community is actively fostered.

Bryant University clearly states both its academic and social expectations. All must accept their obligations as citizens of the Bryant community and expect to be held accountable for behavior as individuals and members of groups.

The university is a caring community where the well-being of each member is supported and where service to others is encouraged.

The campus finds opportunities to affirm both tradition and change. Orientation, Convocation, Homecoming, Family & Friends Weekend, Festival of Lights, Commencement and other activities are examples of celebratory activities. Good traditions must be preserved, new ones established and others extinguished.

Bryant University Pledge

The Bryant University Mission: Bryant University will educate and inspire students to discover their passion, become innovative leaders with character and make a difference around the world. To enter Bryant University is to become a member of a community. Membership in this community is a privilege and an opportunity; participating in and supporting this community is a responsibility we all share.

To help you succeed and to further the development of our community, Bryant University commits to:

1. Support your academic efforts by offering classes taught by dedicated faculty, and provide the necessary opportunities for you to excel both inside and outside the classroom;
2. Provide support for your emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing through the efforts of our many caring faculty and staff;
3. Role-model civil and ethical behavior as well as high standards of academic and personal integrity for all members of our community to follow, and challenge violations of those standards when they occur;
4. Ensure that a wide variety of leadership, educational, recreational, and cultural opportunities are available to you through involvement with student organizations, athletics, and other co-curricular activities;
5. Demonstrate the value of giving back to the greater community by offering you the opportunity to become involved in community service, and;
6. Respect and honor you as an individual, and encourage understanding of diverse cultures.

As a new member of the Bryant University community, I will strive to:

1. Achieve my best in the classroom and take advantage of all the resources available to help me succeed;
2. Accept and support each member of the Bryant University community in an effort to create a positive learning environment for everyone;
3. Take responsibility for my own actions, strive to attain the highest standards of academic and personal integrity, and expect to be held accountable as an individual and as a member of the larger community;
4. Contribute to campus life by becoming involved in co-curricular activities and traditional Bryant University events, either as an observer or active participant;
5. Commit myself to serve the Bryant University and greater community through community service, and;
6. Respect and honor each member of the Bryant University community as an individual and commit myself to gaining a greater understanding of the many cultures surrounding me.