CMU is a Christian university, rooted in the Anabaptist tradition, moved by the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, and through teaching, research, and service inspires women and men for lives of service, leadership, and reconciliation. To realize this mission, CMU strives to create a dynamic context in which students and faculty can engage in a rigorous and joyful exploration of both mind and spirit. Students are encouraged to cultivate their minds and their imaginative capacities
as they grow to understand, value, and interrogate the world in which they find themselves. Together, faculty and staff foster Christian values and character that guide our engagement and
service within our community and around the world.

Our commitment as a Christian university is to educate the whole person – mind, heart, soul, and hands. In this endeavour, we seek to meaningfully integrate the intellectual and spiritual domains of human experience. As a University rooted in the Anabaptist tradition, CMU intentionally addresses the Biblical imperatives to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” and to “love your neighbour as yourself.” These inseparable commitments mark us a people committed to ‘shalom’ – to wholeness, justice, peace, and reconciliation. CMU is an institution committed to an understanding of the ways of God in our world, to social justice and to a way of being, individually and collectively, that reflects our understanding of the other as neighbour.

From this identity as an Anabaptist Christian university, CMU has established the following four commitments that characterize its work as an academic enterprise:

1. Educating for Peace and Justice
A commitment to educating for peace and justice colours all of our programs and our institutional life as a whole and is explicitly represented in some signature programs and in the work of several of our institutes (e.g., Canadian School of Peacebuilding).

2. Learning through Thinking and Doing
Academic analysis is complemented by experiential learning in a manner which shapes both thinking and ethics/living, particularly through our practica, Outtatown, co-op and internship programs.

3. Generous Hospitality . . . Radical Dialogue
CMU welcomes all as it fosters dialogue across religious, economic, social, political, ethnic, national and cultural chasms that divide humanity, within North America and internationally.

4. Modelling invitational Community
CMU tempers the individualism of our time by modeling and nurturing diverse, invitational communities in which students learn and support