"Doing mission beyond borders.

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At the heart of the CICM tradition is mission beyond borders. That is, outside the boundaries of ones own personal beliefs and values the missionary is challenged to learn from other cultures. Tasked to carry out a particular assignment in different places, a missionary accomplishes his work task with an open heart. Otherwise, he loses the meaning of his being a missionary, i.e., someone who is sent! In management, this CICM missionary quality means an orientation towards performing work with a global mindset.

MISSION TO TRANSFORM The first part of the paragraph above refers to the vision of Saint Louis University as an excellent missionary and transformative educational institution. The second part contains the mission of the university which is to develop students as well as faculty and staff imbued with the institution's core values of competence, creativity, social involvement and Christian spirit. The CICM fathers founded Saint Louis University because they believed she has a specific mission of educating the youth of the Cordillera region and of transforming the society through her educational apostolate. The CICMPhilippines province strongly desires that all its educational institutions should not only be more conscious of their role, but should work harder to fulfill their missionary task as an evangelizing and transforming agency in society. Such transformation could only take place however when these institutions like SLU are able to form the faculty, staff and students into professionals who are competent, creative, socially involved and who are imbued with the Christian spirit.