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Summary of "Core Values"
(based
on SPARC workshop 8/20/09, Open Forum 9/15/09,
Governing Ideas Task Force forums and meetings
9/09-11/09, Open Forum 11/16/09, Writing
Committee meetings 11/20/09 & 11/23/09)
Core Values: Fundamental
principles that guide the school in
accomplishing its mission. They are not
everything we value, but are the significant
common values of the school which provide the
foundation for all activities.
The following core values are the fundamental
principles that guide the College in
accomplishing its mission, providing the
foundation for all activities.
Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and
Scholarship: Fostering a learning-centered
environment that advances knowledge and
facilitates collaboration and rigorous
scholarship both in and out of the classroom.
Student Engagement: Encouraging active
citizenship, service, and learning through
curricular and co-curricular opportunities,
college-community involvement, and volunteerism;
promoting the development of students through
support, mentoring, advising, and programming.
Liberal Arts Foundation: Honoring and
facilitating the tradition of a well rounded and
transformational undergraduate and
pre-professional education.
Inclusive Community: Recruiting,
welcoming, recognizing, and empowering diverse
peoples, cultures, identities, perspectives, and
ideas.
Global Connectedness: Promoting the
development of global citizens.
Stewardship: Conserving and preserving
natural resources by promoting sustainable
development; nurturing and developing campus
fiscal, social, and physical resources.
The following were also identified in the
process as potential core values:
1) Research centered
2) Excellence in all activities
3) Highly selective
4) Writing intensive
5) Rigorous curriculum
6) Conserving, preserving, advancing
resources
7) Affordable
8) Rejected the buzz words “sustainability”
and “diversity” for more descriptive and
realistic descriptors
9) Love
10) Risk taking
11) Community service
12) Personal and professional development
13) Improving the human condition
14) Increasing college student population
15) Job training
Last Updated: November 23, 2009
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