Sep 13, 2025  
2025-2026 Academic Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Academic Catalog

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT


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Washington Adventist University (WAU) is continuing the transformational Mission of engaging minds and transforming lives.  We are a faith-based learning community that is committed to producing graduates who bring competence and moral leadership to their communities.  Our greatest assets are our dedicated faculty and staff who are here to support and guide you on your journey.  They are committed to helping you achieve your academic and career goals with encouragement, mentorship, and excellence in teaching. 

The motto we have adopted, Vision 2030 - Distinctive Excellence in Student Success, reflects our transformative journey to excellence.  Our focus is to partner with every one of you so that you graduate on time with little or no debt.  Vision 2030 will be our guide to continue to grow and transform Washington Adventist University into a thriving and distinctive institution of higher education, defined by the excellence in student success.  In other words, your success is not only our priority, it is a measure of institutional success and excellence.

To realize this vision, we are implementing bold actions through the six institutional pillars of excellence - quality, people, finance, growth, service, and community to continuously improve your learning outcomes, raise the institutional profile nationally and internationally, and expand our services to you.  Moving forward together will allow WAU to emerge as a premier private Christian university that is student centered.  We will continue to welcome all God’s children, cultivate and implement best practices so that WAU will be recognized as the best place for students to learn and for employees to work.

Welcome to Washington Adventist University.  I invite you to examine our mission, core values, student learning outcomes, and academic offerings.  Then share your desired academic pathway so that we can partner with you to your career destination.

 

This is Washington Adventist University!

Weymouth Spence
President