Welcome to Indiana State University as a new Employee. We will give you important information that will ease your transition into our University culture. We will introduce you to your colleagues and acquaint you with the agencies, councils, and support information that will make your new position successful. Again, welcome to Indiana State University.

Our mission is to educate students to be more productive and enhance the quality of life of citizens of Indiana by making the knowledge and expertise of its faculty available and accessible.

Indiana State University strives to be known and admired as Indiana’s most Progressive Public University by:

• Providing opportunities that enrich and transform the lives of its students through the distinctiveness of its undergraduate experience and the prominence of its graduate programs;
• Fostering innovation and excellence in teaching and learning;
• Enriching the State, nation, and world through the quality of its research, creative activity, and public service;
• Creating partnerships with external publics that build upon and extend the University’s ability to serve the State and nation; and
• Providing a caring and civil academic community characterized by unusually supportive relationships among its students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends.