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We commit ourselves to:
Academic values
• excellence in research, teaching and innovation
• ensuring that research informs all our activities,
including teaching, learning and service
to the community
• acknowledging the importance of all types of research
from basic to applied and creative
• advancing and disseminating knowledge that
addresses the key challenges facing society – South
African, continental and global
• protecting curiosity-driven research
• nurturing and valuing creativity in the arts, including
the performing and creative arts
• ensuring a high quality and holistic student experience
• fostering a culture of learning and development which
is reflective and supportive of students, scholars,
teachers and professional, administrative support and
service (PASS) staff
• intellectual honesty, rigour in debate, openness to
alternative ideas and respect for other views, ways of
being, beliefs and opinions
• promoting the academic interrogation of boundaries,
knowledge traditions and power relations
• promoting academic freedom, including the creation
of spaces for the contestation of ideas
• advancing knowledge about the African continent and
academics on the continent as international thought
leaders
• enabling access for academically eligible students
regardless of their financial circumstances.
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