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Our Common Pursuit:<br />
Valpo’s Call to Lead and Serve for the Next Generation<br />
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Our Common Pursuit<br />
“Essentially a University is a voluntary association of free men and<br />
women in a community which is dedicated to a twofold task: the<br />
search for truth and the transmission of truth, free and unbroken,<br />
to those who are born later in time.”<br />
— Inaugural address of Valparaiso University’s 14th President,<br />
O.P. Kretzmann, 1940<br />
Charting Our Course<br />
Our sails are raised here at Valparaiso University. We have prepared for the next journey, poised for<br />
success at the nexus, a time of great societal and cultural change in higher education. At this great<br />
institution, where Athens and Jerusalem meet, we are engaged not in a pursuit of common truth, but<br />
rather a common pursuit of truth. As such, we continue the tradition of building upon the cornerstone of<br />
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