Principles

IBERO considers the following principles fundamental to its activities:

• Freedom of conscience for all its members.
• A continuous and sincere openness for dialogue with all schools of though.
• Academic freedom to teach and research – within the norms of morality and law, and in accordance with a Christian concept of the human being.
• Genuine autonomy of academic functions, free from dependence on or submission to external political or economic interests.
• A profound and effective sense of social justice, which strives for the integral development of human communities, especially those in most need.

Educational Philosophy

IBERO states that it’s Educational Philosophy:

• Is inspired on Christian values, and aims to accomplish the integration of those values with the scientific and philosophical advances in an atmosphere of permanent intellectual integrity and pursuit of truth.
• Gives special emphasis to the progress of interdisciplinary dialogue that strives to 1) form the individual integrally, 2) integrate the knowledge pertaining to a university and 3) make continuous efforts to achieve the highest goals in terms of human and academic quality.
• Instills in all its members a living awareness of the social problems and the resulting responsibility to contribute to their solution.
• Attempts to serve the people of Mexico by collaborating in the impartial and nonsectarian search for a cultural identity, congruent with its history and open to the world.