UPAEP encourages the development and self-fulfillment of the human person, achieving the character of individual identity as part of a personal goal and professional exercise within the context of an own lifestyle.

It allows the students to consolidate their talents in the search for and the encounter with the meaning of life, to exercise their freedom responsibly, and reach the full knowledge of themselves, accepting the inherent responsibilities.

If the future professionals broaden their vision about themselves, others, their environment, and God, it will ease them to fully express themselves with integrity and congruence to make Truth, Good, Justice, and Beauty prevail.

It empowers the student for decision-making based on the acceptance and appreciation of the highest values.

It let place for learning experiences in real life, so the students can become part of their context, helping them deal with their problems effectively.

UPAEP’s formation project recognizes that the students are integral beings, individually positioned in time and space, with different dimensions that merge as a whole, contributing to personal development.

Regarding the physical dimension, the University cares for the physical development of the students. It promotes respect for the human body, helping it to express the person's inner harmony. It contributes to the development of healthy habits. It fosters the sporting spirit, encouraging discipline in individual and collective sports.

The emotional dimension provides an environment that positively molds the character to face life and professional challenges. Also, it promotes sociability in all its manifestations. It promotes emotional-affective balance and self-esteem improvement. It encourages students to appreciate the values, activities, emblems, styles, among other UPAEP's attributes, to be comprehended and defended. It fosters sensibility towards aesthetics and beauty.

Concerning the intellectual dimension, it fosters intellectual habits that build critical judgment, for the encounter and dissemination of truth and scientific knowledge. It encourages objective reflection to integrate faith, reason, and science. It develops self-learning by methods that lead to logical and clear thinking. It helps emerge creativity, expression, and communication skills.

Within the volitional aspect, it responsibly forms freedom, the moral consciousness that guides and orders all other human dimensions. It accepts professional responsibilities and adherence to the truth while nurtures the spirit of striving in defense of the accepted values. It generates and encourages entrepreneurship and self-improvement.

In consonance with its Catholic identity, within the spiritual aspect, it promotes and defends spiritual values.

Culturally, it disseminates the values that are proper to our cultural roots as a framework to reordering the social, economic, political and cultural life, and assumes the duty to be an agent of the New Evangelization of the culture.

Thus, UPAEP has an impact on its students by:
Fostering a collective spirit aimed at life and society. Encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue. Identifying the scope and limits of the disciplines of the professions and their exercising. Initiating the acknowledgment of the theoretical and practical applications of other disciplines in respect of their own.

Through research, it teaches from a critical perspective based on scientific grounds of the different disciplines and promotes the search for and appreciation of truth.

UPAEP reiterates that historically it is:
An institution of Catholic identity that contributes to education on the Culture of Life, particularly in restructuring the broad social, economic and political world, with all the consequences that entails striving against a Culture of Death and its manifestations.

An integrator of knowledge because it combines the diversity of scientific disciplines for the professional exercise, aware of the environment and its demands, reorienting itself according to Truth, Good, Justice, and Beauty in the service of the human person.

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It contributes to society by forming professionals of academic excellence, who carry out their vocation serving to community and human beings who freely assume their responsibility to be prominent protagonists in the establishment of a new world, following the dignity of the person, family, and society.

This…
Through research, teaching, extension, and dissemination of culture, it develops four inseparable qualities: vocation, comprehensive formation, integration of academic and professional knowledge, and the theory and practices of scientific disciplines. It requires research methods and fosters intellectual honesty.

Through teaching, it promotes the interest and study of problems from an interdisciplinary perspective. It fosters a harmonious vision of the world and the human being as the guide of unified knowledge.

With the university extension, it puts culture within reach of the people, promoting the New Evangelization.

To this end, UPAEP’s students are:
Proficient in the knowledge and techniques necessary to exercise their profession and the methods of research of their scientific discipline.

Motivated by the feeling and predisposition for service. Our students care for professional ethics, developing awareness, and a sense of social responsibility and solidarity towards the environment. Also, they appreciate the contributions from other disciplines to enrich their work and the work of others. Their spirit of leadership is awake, so it is their critical thinking and understanding of the social, technological, and scientific changes that demand a continuous updating of their knowledge.

The University will always encourage an appropriate environment of congruence and exemplarity as a reflection of acceptance and as a witness of civic, moral, and religious principles and norms. It will promote discovery and interiorization of the human values, equality, and justice in all relationships, initiative, and freedom of choice, work, and community service; free awareness and attachment to UPAEP’s philosophy and model.

Above all, and regarding the profession's exercise, UPAEP's professionals must fulfill the explicit purpose of culture evangelizing and inculturation of the Gospel. Through this, they ensure that the values of Western and Catholic culture guide in all aspects and spheres of our country’s life.

"Culture in Service of the People"