To the Students of the University of Lynchburg:
Welcome to the University of Lynchburg! It is my great honor to serve you, this institution, and our incredible Hornet community as president.
Here at Lynchburg, our vision is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and inclusive. That’s why our mission is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities.
We do this by helping you connect to your people, your place, your passion, and your purpose. It is by adhering to our core values of academic rigor, belonging, connection, curiosity, excellence, and service that all this is possible.
As you get to know one another and your professors, coaches, leaders, and mentors here at the University of Lynchburg, I hope these values create an undeniably life-changing experience for you as you see them lived out across our campus.
More than that, I hope they resonate so deeply that you adopt them as your own. Your life will be richer for it.
This handbook will help guide you into a life you’ll love as a student here on our campus. It is my sincere belief that learning to cultivate this kind of life here at Lynchburg will grow into a life you’ll love — personally and professionally — wherever you go.
The academic policies you’ll find in this handbook help frame what it means to be an independent thinker, one who pauses to listen, process, and understand before rushing to a conclusion or response.
The Honor and Student Conduct Codes and Regulations provide you with guardrails that empower you to become trustworthy in every area of your life — in your relationships, business practices, and finances.
Leadership development is a cornerstone of the Hornet experience, and here you will find an array of student-led organizations where you can learn to become an effective leader who excels in their responsibilities and is the person everyone wants to work with — and work for.
All the while, whether in or out of the classroom or residence hall, on or off the athletic field, across our beautiful campus or in our great city of Lynchburg, you’ll be learning to shape caring communities. You’ll help ensure everyone feels like they belong.
These traits — critical thinking, integrity, hard work, perseverance, grit, curiosity, compassion, a servant’s heart and a warm, welcoming spirit — are what make up the heart of the Hornet. More than anything, that heart is what I hope you’ll carry with you across Lynchburg’s Commencement stage and out into the world.
So welcome again to our beloved university. I’m confident you’ll soon discover what thousands of Hornets have discovered before you — that the University of Lynchburg is an undeniably life-changing place to be.
It is a great day to be a Hornet!
Alison I. Morrison-Shetlar, president
