Values and Vision - Mission

Mission Statement

  • We are a community of learners open to all.
  • Our community is built on a foundation of respect and openness to change.
  • Together, we strive to meet the needs of our diverse community and develop each member's abilities.
  • Our commitment to quality education and teaching excellence prepares learners to live and work successfully in an ever-changing world.

Values and Goals

To accomplish our mission, we commit ourselves to these values:

  • Access
  • Multiculturalism
  • Educational Excellence
  • College Environment

What do our mission and values look like in action? These are our goals:

Access

  • Provide an open door admission policy.
  • Support the principles of affirmative action and equal opportunity in all areas.
  • Identify and overcome institutional barriers to learning.

Multiculturalism

  • Recruit, retain, and involve a diverse faculty, staff, and student population.
  • Value the dignity, strength, and contribution of each individual in our community.
  • Celebrate our diversity.

Educational Excellence

  • Prepare students to live and work in a dynamically changing world by emphasizing whole student development and the five core abilities:
    • Effective Communication
    • Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
    • Multiculturalism
    • Information Competency
    • Responsibility
  • Use the abilities of our students as the measure of institutional quality and effectiveness.
  • Provide a quality educational environment.
  • Meet the diverse educational needs of our community by providing comprehensive programming: academic transfer, career preparation, retraining, developmental, continuing education and lifelong learning needs of our community.
  • Anticipate and plan for continuous change in the design and delivery of programs and services. Embrace changing technologies as integral to education.

College Environment

  • Provide an accessible, safe, healthful, and comfortable learning and working environment.
  • Implement effective decision making processes that value collaboration and the contributions from all students, faculty, staff and community.
  • Develop dynamic local, regional and global networks and partnerships.
  • Provide effective systems, including appropriate use of technology, to meet the business and operation needs of the institution using the most efficient, responsible and accountable methods.
  • Develop innovative funding to increase educational opportunities.
  • Engage in on-going college-wide planning processes that allow us to evolve in response to an ever-changing world.
  • Strive to be a place where all of us can find meaning in our work.