Why work for us?
The success of the university, and most importantly our students, depends on the quality of our faculty and staff. Affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, La Sierra is acclaimed for its academic quality, opportunities for research at both the undergraduate and graduate level, community service emphasis, and demographically diverse student body. Students thrive in the small, professor-taught classes where academic topics are investigated and Christian faith is a cornerstone of education.
Why We Are Different
- La Sierra University, “Where Academic Investigation, Christian Faith and Service to Others Unite,” is widely recognized as an exceptional academic institution providing hands-on learning experiences in a safe, nurturing atmosphere.
- La Sierra University is an institution nationally acclaimed for its diverse campus and its service to others, which offers a transformational experience that lasts a lifetime.
- U.S. News & World Report named La Sierra University the most diverse university in the western United States the past five years. And in early 2008 the Corporation for National and Community Service selected La Sierra for the Honor Roll with Distinction, part of the 2007 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll program. The award recognized La Sierra’s students for providing nearly 45,000 hours of service. Such efforts included international economic development projects by La Sierra’s World Cup-winning Students In Free Enterprise team, and community projects through La Sierra’s campus-wide Service-Learning program.
Every La Sierra University employee, whether in facilities, in offices, or in the lecture halls, work together to seamlessly support our university community’s commitment to inquiry, learning and service -- something that each of us feels working toward a lifetime of seeking truth, by enlarging human understanding through scholarship, knowing God, in ourselves, and the world through reflection, instruction and mentoring and serving others, contributing to the good of our local and global communities. Working at La Sierra weaves your individual contributions within a larger tapestry of advances that will impact generations directly, and for the unforeseeable future all rooted in the Christian gospel and Seventh-day Adventist values and ideals. Each of us pursue our mission with excellence, integrity, compassion and mutual respect.