Mission Statement
The Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities serves the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by promoting higher education. To enrich the well-being of the people of Pennsylvania, the association fosters dialogue among the institutions of higher learning, collects and disseminates information about higher education, enhances the understanding and image of higher education and when practicable advances collective positions relating to higher education.

Establishing a unity of spirit and cooperation among the various institutions and sectors while nurturing the appropriate diversity that is one of the glories of higher education in Pennsylvania is rightly a part of the PACU mission. PACU is a voluntary member organization; it seeks those mutual interests and commonalities among constituent sectors and variety of institutions that can be developed for the benefit of higher education and the people of Pennsylvania.