桃李满天下

唐晓武2021年12月16日约 4 分钟

12年前，我在编写《我们在世界名校》时（参见浙大文库收藏《我们在世界名校》），查阅了所有世界顶级名校的网站，Mission and Vision均置于各校网站首页最显著位置，其表述之高端、大气、上档次，加之英文水平有限，以致于分不清哪个是Mission？哪个是Vision？

浙大全体师生，从新教师到院士，从大一新生到博士生，如火如荼地讨论“使命和愿景”。我用手机一查哈佛大学网站，没找到Mission and Vision（简称“M”和“V”）。再找耶鲁大学网站，即没M也没有V。这两所以文理法见长的大学，不可能没有Mission and Vision，可能是手机版没有。很遗憾，我用电脑搜，M和V没有。让学生搜也没有全校的Mission and Vision，只有学院级别的。太奇怪了，哈佛、耶鲁已无Mission and Vision！再找找工科见长的顶校MⅠT和斯坦福，说不定还有。两校各剩一半，MIT只有M,斯坦福只剩V,两校拼起来刚好一对，见下文。按此推测，文理工全面发展的UCLA说不定还Mission and Vision。果然不出所料，UCLA在首页C位分别列上了M和V。

Mission of MIT

The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges. MIT is dedicated to providing its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in each member of the MIT community the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind.

Stanford's Long-Range Vision

Fueled by optimism, ingenuity and a sense of responsibility, we seek to accelerate our purposeful impact in the world.

The scale and urgency of challenges facing us today require that Stanford reach farther and move faster to accelerate our purposeful impact in the world. We need a new way of working that enables us to tackle long-standing issues facing our society and our planet and allows us to be nimble when faced with unexpected threats.

Our Vision amplifies Stanford’s contributions through a new model for research universities: accelerating the creation and application of knowledge to tackle the world’s great problems, anchoring research and education in ethics and civic responsibility, and promoting access and inclusion.

The strategic imperative of embedding ethics in everything we do is integrated across Our Vision, which is focused on: accelerating Solutions to the world's most pressing problems enhancing our Knowledge of the world and ourselves advancing Education for our students supporting our diverse Community of faculty, students and staff.