Maryville University

Maryville University’s interest in media literacy is embedded in the university’s core values. 
These values include:

• Teaching and Mentoring: Our essential, foundational purpose is the teaching and mentoring of students of all ages so they may stretch their minds, challenge their limits and critically think about and adequately express their own intellectual journey.
• Global Awareness: Appreciation for the diversity of the human condition and an understanding and ability to work, live and thrive within the global community.
• Civic Engagement: All citizens must be actively engaged in their local, national and global communities to both strengthen those communities and assist those less fortunate.
• Sustainability: Appreciation that our collective global environment requires good, prudent stewardship and meaningful consideration of those who will inherit our institution, community and world.

Effective civic engagement in and stewardship of our communities depends on our appreciation for diversity and critically thinking skills.  It is the building of critical thinking skills that allows us to understand the diversity and complexity of our world.  That is what media literacy is all about and why Maryville University has made its commitment to promoting media literacy through its partnership with Gateway Media Literacy Partners.