| Mission Key Result Areas (KRAs) |
Definition |
| KRA 1 – Formation of ADDU sui generis leaders for the Church and human society |
Developing leadership grounded on Ignatian Spirituality that promotes social justice and the ongoing commitment to the common good. |
| KRA 2 – Articulate and enact a faith that does justice |
Making Gospel values alive through works of justice, understanding and living the faith through a commitment to commutative, distributive and especially social justice. |
| KRA 3 – Address questions of belief and non-belief towards the truth |
Researching and grappling respectfully with questions on the act of believing and related matters of faith, religion, morals, ideals, ideologies, and individual and cultural expressions of belief and non-belief towards the attainment of the truth. |
| KRA 4 – Promote communities of peace and cultural resilience |
Recognizing and drawing out wellsprings of life-sustaining values and knowledge inherent in the ethno-linguistic groups of Mindanao in their pursuit of cultural self-determination, and empowering them to adapt to the modern world while creatively enhancing their culture amidst the threats and influence of globalization and environmental, socio-political changes. |
| KRA 5– Promote the common good through social justice |
As a demand of social justice, through discernment and action, making the personal and institutional choices that achieve the conditions, whereby all human beings fully flourish at any given historical time. |
| 5.1 Preserve and protect the environment especially as it is threatened by an economy that excludes |
Embracing our responsibility to protect and defend the integrity of creation from all forms of threats especially from a market and technocratic governance that glorifies profit. This implies our commitment to reconcile with creation and to preserve or restore the beauty of our common home. |
| 5.2 – Protect the human community from climate change especially as it is most probably caused by human beings
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Advancing the notion that climate is a common good, therefore, meant for all, and that any change to it shall greatly impact the poorest of our peoples. As such, resisting anthropogenic activities that aggravate climate change and responding to the suffering of our brothers and sisters by building resilient communities become imperatives of social justice. |
| 5.3 Promote sustainable development through renewable energy and appropriate technologies |
Developing and advocating technologies that respect the balance, rhythm and harmony of creation and intergenerational equity, through vigorously harnessing renewable energy and green technologies in pursuit of the common good. |
| 5.4 – Promote the creation and equitable distribution of wealth |
Addressing poverty and inequality in society by supporting a new economy that creates and distributes wealth through entrepreneurship and the provision of goods and services that respond to human needs and not merely market needs, and the common good and not merely private good. |
| 5.5 – Protect vulnerable communities using a rights-based and gender-responsive framework |
Empowering marginalized and vulnerable communities to assert their fundamental human rights, consistent with gender responsiveness and cultural sensitivity; and to chart their own development towards life with dignity. |
| 5.6 – Promote good governance |
Advancing governance that embodies the basic principles of subsidiarity, transparency, accountability, participation, integrity, cultural sensitivity and human dignity, in both the public and private spheres towards the achievement of common good. |
| 5.7 – Cultivate structures within the University that promote the common good on a long-term basis |
Ensuring that appropriate and functioning structures are in place within the university that are responsive to the needs of communities and demands of the common good. |
| KRA 6 – Serve the local and universal Roman Catholic Church
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Responding to the needs of the local Church by forming leaders who dialogue with the Church and the modern world, provide services rooted in the reality of Mindanao, which is multi-cultural and multi-faith, and are able to explain this faith in a manner understandable to local community. |
| KRA 7 – Promote educational reform especially for Southern Philippines |
Understanding and promoting academic freedom, and raising the standards of higher education in Mindanao, and especially basic education in the Bangsamoro and indigenous people’s (IP) areas. |
| KRA 8 – Accomplish inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue |
Recognizing, understanding and respecting the diversity of religions and cultures by engaging in a dialogue of life and theology, while exploring the experience of shared prayer, collaborating with peoples of other faith towards social justice, and celebrating mutual understanding and cultural solidarity. |
| KRA 9 – Develop the University as a Filipino-Global and Quality Education Institution
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Setting and pursuing globally competitive standards in administration, formation, instruction, research and engagement while remaining fully grounded in the university’s Catholic, Jesuit and Filipino identity and urgently responsive to Mindanao, national and global challenges. |
