BACKGROUND
Introduction
Trinity University is a private Christian university. It was established with a view to delivering tertiary education that is highly comparable to that delivered by any other internationally recognized University, particularly by the renowned world universities. Trinity University aims at equipping learners with exceptional academic and professional knowledge that is unequivocally essential in overcoming challenges in one’s personal and public life. The university focuses further at producing graduates that are equipped with good and dynamic leadership qualities that are indispensable in meeting national and global challenges, especially those which are social, economic, scientific and technological in nature. It is in this belief that the education programmes offered at the university, notwithstanding learners’ religious inclination reflect Zambia’s needs and cultural and traditional identity as people belonging to the global world. The primary goal of Trinity University is to educate and stimulate our learners in innovation and excellence and in generation of a prudent quest for more knowledge, especially through research. Thus, the university demands scholastic excellence from all academic and support staff and from students as well. As a Christian University, Trinity University stands to be guided by Christian principles, heritage and we embrace diversity. The university believes that intellectual and spiritual pursuits go hand in hand, as essential ingredients, not only for growth of the advancement of global sustainable development. It is the university’s aspiration that our students will reflect this heritage upon graduation. Values
The University cherishes and underpins four values in the provision of high tertiary education. The four values are summed up as GIPH:-
G: Stands for Generosity
Generosity involves a spirit of sharing available resources. Trinity University would like to share its professional expertise and spiritual resources with the needy, through giving back a gift of high education to Zambian people in appreciation of their diverse forms of support. Thus university endeavors to plough back a gift of high quality tertiary education to the Zambian people in appreciation of their patience and endurance. I: Stands for Industry
Through Industry we call our general staff, lecturers and students to commit themselves to hard work and follow the example of perseverance exhibited by the Zambian people in all situations. Further, the university highly values hard work and calls for partnership with stakeholders from the industry sub-sector in order to facilitate the utilization of acquired knowledge to transform the country’s abundant raw materials into finished goods and in the process promote value addition. P: Stands for Prudence
Carefulness and good judgment are expected from general workers, teaching staff and students when handling other people’s affairs, such as learning materials, assignments and examination scripts. In this regard university calls for carefulness and good judgement when handling other people’s affairs. This also applies to university staff in handling students’ issues. H: Stands for Honesty
Honesty is one of our cherished cultural and Christian values which defines our core character as a Christian university. Regardless of one’s religious affiliation, honesty is one of the university’s highly cherished values which cannot be compromised. Goals and objectives
The university aims at realizing its mission and vision through the following goals and objectives:
Goals
Our main goal is to provide high quality tertiary education in response to national, regional and global development needs, particularly in the following sub-sectors:
Education, Health, Business, Social, Religion, Law, Physical Sciences, Life sciences and Research. Objectives
To meet the increasing demand for professional tertiary education in areas identified in the needs assessment. To fill any other existing gaps, in the provision of tertiary education in the country.
