Mission
Mission Statement
New Meridian University’s mission is to provide accessible, academically rigorous online programs in the administrative sciences that prepare students for ethical leadership and professional practice in business, government, and nonprofit sectors. New Meridian University serves a diverse global student population through flexible, asynchronous learning and is committed to academic integrity, equity, and responsible institutional governance.
Institutional Purpose and Values Statement
New Meridian University delivers associate, undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in the administrative sciences and conducts its academic and administrative operations in accordance with established standards of ethical conduct. The University operates with transparency, fairness, and responsible stewardship, and maintains institutional practices intended to align operational conduct with stated ethical expectations. Through academically rigorous and applied instruction, the University prepares graduates for professional roles in business, government, and nonprofit sectors of the global economy.
New Meridian University seeks a disparate and promising student body. Recognizing that diversity broadens perspectives, New Meridian University is dedicated to recruiting a culturally, economically, geographically, and racially diverse group of students. This commitment is supported through inclusive admissions practices, globally oriented outreach, and program structures appropriate to an asynchronous online learning environment, including flexible access that mitigates barriers related to time, location, employment, caregiving responsibilities, and physical mobility.
New Meridian University is committed to building and sustaining a diverse faculty representing a range of cultural, geographic, disciplinary, and professional backgrounds. New Meridian University recognizes that faculty diversity contributes to academic quality by supporting varied scholarly perspectives, applied expertise, and global viewpoints in curriculum design, instruction, and assessment.
Diversity and Access Policy
New Meridian University affirms its commitment to diversity, equity, and access as essential components of academic quality and institutional effectiveness. The University seeks to provide educational opportunities to a broad and diverse population of qualified learners and to maintain policies and practices that support fair and equitable treatment across all institutional functions.
Student Diversity and Access
New Meridian University seeks a disparate and promising student body and recognizes that diversity broadens perspectives and enriches the educational environment. The University is committed to recruiting and enrolling students from varied cultural, economic, geographic, and racial backgrounds through inclusive admissions practices and globally oriented outreach.
As an asynchronous online institution, New Meridian University structures its programs to promote access by reducing barriers related to time, location, employment obligations, caregiving responsibilities, and physical mobility. Academic policies, instructional design, and student support services are developed to ensure that qualified students are able to participate effectively in the learning environment.
Faculty Diversity
New Meridian University is committed to recruiting, appointing, and retaining faculty from a range of cultural, geographic, disciplinary, and professional backgrounds. Faculty diversity is recognized as a contributor to instructional quality, academic rigor, and the inclusion of varied scholarly and applied perspectives within the curriculum.
Faculty recruitment and evaluation practices are designed to support equitable consideration of qualified candidates and to ensure that instructional staff are prepared to engage diverse learner populations in an online, asynchronous environment.
Institutional Implementation
New Meridian University reviews its admissions, hiring, instructional, and administrative practices periodically to ensure alignment with this policy and with applicable accreditation standards and regulatory requirements. Responsibility for the implementation of this policy is shared among institutional leadership, academic administration, and instructional staff.
Non-Discrimination Policy
New Meridian University does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, employment, or institutional services on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, age, disability, religion, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
This policy applies to all aspects of the University’s operations, including student admission and enrollment, academic instruction, assessment, access to institutional resources, faculty and staff recruitment and employment, and participation in University-sponsored programs and activities.
New Meridian University administers its policies and procedures in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws and with the standards of recognized accrediting bodies. Individuals who believe they have been subjected to discrimination may seek review through the University’s established grievance and complaint procedures.