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Mission

Christ-centered higher education transforming students to impact the world with grace and truth.

Colorado Christian University cultivates knowledge and love of God in a Christ-centered community of learners and scholars, with an enduring commitment to the integration of exemplary academics, spiritual formation, and engagement with the world. We envision graduates who think critically and creatively, lead with ethical and professional standards, embody the character and compassion of Jesus Christ, treasure the gospel, and who thereby are prepared to impact the world in their callings.

Christ-centered community

Our community of interdependent students, faculty, and staff seeks to honor and obey Jesus Christ, who is present in Spirit and speaks in Scripture, in order to advance God's purposes in the lives of every member.

Exemplary Academics

Our undergraduate and graduate curriculum integrates faith and learning in a scholarly environment that fosters critical and creative thinking, academic excellence, and professional competence.

Spiritual formation

Our academic and student development programs cultivate a deep and enduring faith that affirms the authority of Scripture and embraces Christ as the authentic center of life.

Engagement with the world

Our students experience and engage the world in ways that prepare leaders to serve and transform their professions, churches, and communities.

Strategic Priorities

Colorado Christian University's Strategic Priorities were adopted by the CCU Board of Trustees to serve as a guiding compass for the University. They direct the implementation of CCU's long-established mission and vision, and provide context for our first priority - an enduring commitment to Jesus Christ and His Kingdom. The Strategic Priorities provide a point of convergence for every member of the CCU community and for every aspect of life at CCU, from how we teach and learn in the classroom to how we live with and serve others.

Colorado Christian University shall:

  • Honor Christ and share the love of Christ on campus and around the world

  • Teach students to trust the Bible, live holy lives, and be evangelists

  • Be a magnet for outstanding students and prepare them for positions of significant leadership in the church, business, government, and professions by offering an excellent education in strategic disciplines

  • Teach students how to learn

  • Teach students how to think for themselves

  • Teach students how to speak and write clearly and effectively

  • Give students significant opportunities to serve our Lord while they are at CCU and to help them develop a lifetime habit of such service

  • Impact our culture in support of traditional family values, sanctity of life, compassion for the poor, Biblical view of human nature, limited government, personal freedom, free markets, natural law, original intent of the constitution, and Western civilization

  • Be seekers of truth

  • Debunk "spent ideas" and those who traffic in them

  • Ask God to multiply our time and ability to the glory of His great name

  • Be a servant of the Church

  • Become a great university.

Biblical Foundation

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - His good, pleasing and perfect will." Romans 12:2 (NIV)

"For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." John 1:17 (NIV)

University Lifestyle Expectations

As an institution of evangelical Christians, we believe that our faith in Christ is a living faith that bears visible fruit as, through God's grace and empowering, we gradually grow in likeness to Jesus. As Paul urged the Ephesians, we also urge one another "to live a life worthy of the calling you have received" (Eph 4:1).

As an educational institution, we believe that our students learn important lessons about spirituality, character, integrity, and morality by observing within the institution the Christ-like values lived out by respected role models.

As a result, our institutional mission is fulfilled in part as members of the CCU community - students, faculty, staff, and administrators - consciously seek a lifestyle that is both pleasing to Christ and exemplary to those who may be observing. To foster fulfillment of this aspect of our mission, we define guidelines for the behavior and conduct that are expected of those who choose to be part of our community.