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While sustaining and enhancing its high quality education for campus students, the University strives to maintain and develop an interconnected web of programs and services for citizens, businesses, industries, schools, and governments in south central Pennsylvania.
Overall, the purpose is to help build a better, stronger central Pennsylvania, economically and culturally, through people who have the abilities, skills, and values to compete in a technologically evolving world.
Shippensburg University continues to offer students many different opportunities for learning in a variety of settings. You can work with outstanding faculty members in student-faculty research programs, participate in one of over 160 student clubs and organizations, attend cultural events, and attend lectures presented by nationally prominent speakers.
Shippensburg University is a special place where students can begin to work toward achieving their long-term personal and professional goals while enjoying various aspects of undergraduate or graduate education. Come visit the campus and investigate how 'Ship' can match-up with your interests and expectations. Challenge the University to make good on your promise and potential.
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The university's primary commitment is to student learning and personal development through effective and innovative teaching and a wide variety of high-quality out-of-class experiences. The ultimate goal is to have students develop to their utmost the intellectual, personal, and social capabilities they need to perform as competent citizens prepared to embark on a career immediately upon graduation or after advanced study.