KCAST is an academic community imbued with these values to guide decisions and functions:

P – Participatory Management

As a management philosophy and approach in which employees and stakeholders are engaged in planning and decision-making to optimize organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

E – Enhanced Competence

It is an emerging process of upholding academic excellence and the capability to apply or use a set of related knowledge, skills, and abilities required to successfully perform critical work functions or tasks in a defined work setting.

O – Optimism

Is the feeling of being hopeful about the future or about the success of something in particular. It improves our emotional well-being, fosters better relationships and provides proactive actions against adverse events.

P – Patriotism

Is a rational or devoted love or support of a people’s common liberty, which gives us the strength to resist oppression associated with an exclusive, intolerant, and irrational attachment to the country.

L – Life Coaching

A model that empowers others by helping them make, meet and exceed goals in both their personal and professional lives.

E – Engaging Faith

It involves the application of spiritual values and principles to the academic community and instill education that inspires empathy.