# About the University

> Slop University — its schools, its research, and its purpose.

Slop University is a research university organised around a single conviction:
that what an institution measures, it comes to understand, and what it
understands, it can improve. The University pursues that conviction across its
schools, its research groups, and its programs, and reports on it openly. Its
motto, _Edimus ergo sumus_ --- "we publish, therefore we are" --- states the
corollary plainly: an institution's understanding exists only once it is on the
record.

The University is home to the
[School of Emergent Priorities](https://slop.university/schools/emergent-priorities/), which studies
how priorities emerge, align, and are sustained across complex settings, and the
[School of Continuous Improvement](https://slop.university/schools/continuous-improvement/), which
studies the measurement systems that improve the things they measure. Together
they anchor the University's anticipatory-capability agenda and its work on
evaluation ecosystems.

Research produced under the University's name is published open access and
carries a persistent identifier minted by the Office of Research Outputs. The
University holds that the value of research is realised only when it is
findable, citable, and put to use, and it organises its scholarly communication
accordingly. Its [research outputs](https://slop.university/outputs/), and the performance indicators
that track them, are available in full on this site.

The University's [researchers](https://slop.university/people/) work across its schools and groups on a
shared programme: to make the institution legible to itself, and to close the
loop between what is sensed, what is reported, and what is done.