title: Who do we say we are? Publically proclaiming one's university mission identity. Introduction.
abstract: While U.S. colleges and universities ponder their mission, vision, values, and virtues, researchers at a large, urban, Catholic, patron-identity university actively engaged in empirical assessments of "who we say we are." In this themed issue, faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students are a research team engaged in quantitative and qualitative analysis of their school's mission identity and mission-driven activities. Results from several sets of studies around student perceptions and impact of mission are presented and discussed. School administrators and those interested in community engagement impacts on students may find these articles useful and informative.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA. jferrari@depaul.edu
authors.forename: Joseph R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Ferrari
authors.forename: Todd L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Bottom
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D003256:Community Participation; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D012933:Social Identification; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*