Society for Values in Higher Education

The Society for Values in Higher Education—a fellowship of educators and other professionals, across disciplines—is committed to teaching, learning, and scholarship that nurture ethical, creative, and informed citizens dedicated to the common good. We work to strengthen integrity, diversity, social justice, and civic responsibility in higher education and the wider society.

The goals of the Society are:

• To draw on many cultural and spiritual traditions in order to reflect critically on contemporary values issues facing higher education;
• To promote a rich diversity of perspectives while, at the same time, affirming a supportive organizational integrity within SVHE and all educational institutions;
• To create openings in the walls that separate persons from one another (e.g., professions, disciplines, race, gender, class, age) and that separate the members of the academy from the larger society;
• To encourage interdisciplinary inquiry that integrates practical and intellectual perspectives;
• To challenge ourselves, our families, and higher education in general to develop whole persons who are prepared to play a constructive role in a rapidly changing world.