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ICU was founded with the mission of seeking truth, protecting academic freedom, and enriching its substance. To achieve the greatest results in the pursuit and dissemination of truth, it is necessary to maintain the highest academic standards and academic freedom. As a community of knowledge, ICU is entrusted with the responsibility, expectations, and encouragement to uphold these standards.
The exchange of knowledge is an important issue that all institutions of higher education and research should address with special interest. ICU's mission is to cultivate academics who can connect and integrate knowledge that is useless if it remains fragmented, and in the process, engage in broad exchange of knowledge beyond their own fields of expertise. It is precisely for this reason that ICU has adopted the liberal arts college system and is committed to a liberal arts education that emphasizes the liberation and cultivation of the mind.
To acquire the ability to think freely and independently and to be critical, to resist the domination of irrational forces, to make rational decisions based on truth and freedom, and to accept the responsibilities that come with those decisions - ICU's mission is to send out into the world people who, supported by an academic spirit, have mastered this sense of responsibility.