Mission & Vision

Respect: Sincere regard and appreciation for all individuals, contributions, and ideas. 

Equity: Providing deliberately inclusive access, support, and opportunities for all.

Collaboration: Respecting the expertise of campus community members, and ensuring cooperative internal and external communication.

Excellence: Offering high-quality educational experiences and student support, with a commitment to continuous improvement.

Innovation: Empowering creative responses to community needs to improve services and outcomes.

Integrity: A trusting, honest, and transparent environment that prioritizes individual and institutional commitments.

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Institutional Learning Outcomes

 

Communication and Expression
Students are able to research a topic, develop an argument, and organize supporting details. They will demonstrate coherent college‐level communication (written and oral) that informs, persuades, or otherwise engages with an audience. Students will also evaluate communication for substance, bias, and intended effect. They will also demonstrate the ability to revise and improve written and oral communication.

Informational Literacy
Students will locate information effectively using tools appropriate to their need and discipline. They will evaluate information with an awareness of authority, validity, and bias. Students will also demonstrate an understanding of the ethical dimensions of information use, creation, and dissemination.

Quantitative and Scientific Literacy
Students will demonstrate mathematical skills, scientific reasoning, and quantitative reasoning to address problems. They will understand methods of collecting data, interpreting data, and making inferences/drawing conclusions about data. Students will demonstrate an ability to represent information symbolically, visually, numerically, and verbally using technology and numerical data.

Creative, Critical, and Analytical Thinking
Students will demonstrate an understanding of at least one principal form of artistic expression, including writing and communication, and the creative process inherent therein. They will clearly identify, analyze, and evaluate ideas, data, and arguments as they occur in their own or others’ work. Students will acknowledge limitations such as perspective and bias and develop well‐reasoned (logical) arguments to form judgments and/or draw conclusions.

Community/Global Consciousness and Responsibility
Students will describe the historical and contemporary societal factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving race, class, and gender. They will analyze the role that complex networks of social structures and systems play in the creation and perpetuation of the dynamics of power, privilege, oppression, and opportunity. Students will apply the principles of rights, access, equity, and autonomous participation in past, current, or future social justice action.