Our Core Values
The FEU core values are fortitude, excellence, and uprightness.
Fortitude refers to the ability to work hard, persevere, not give in or give up; to be committed to an ideal and to pursue it with hard work and courage. The school motto “Be Brave” is a call to fortitude. Excellence refers to the ability to do rigorous, meticulous, and relevant work that is comparable to the highest standards. Uprightness refers to moral and ethical integrity, willingness to put others ahead of the self, commitment to fairness and a commitment to work for a greater good.
The FEU core values serve as both guiding principle and objective.
Our Core Process
Our core process is the creation and maintenance of a teaching and learning environment of excellence and uprightness where emphasis is placed on knowledge production through critical thinking, on the ability to appreciate and ethically gather sound data and evidence, on embracing creative tension between existing knowledge and new knowledges, on taking a stand that is fair to all concerned, on the effective communication of this knowledge, on the safekeeping of this knowledge and the tradition to which it belongs, on the use of this knowledge to propose creative solutions for problems on the personal, community, national, or global levels.
FEU’s teaching and learning environment operates through fortitude: it is professional and efficient, and functions with transparency, clarity of purpose and direction, and punctuality. It also operates through nurturance: it values humility, selflessness, respect for others, self-fulfillment, and strong community ties.
All our policies and practices are guided by and focused on this core process.