Our faculty and staff see themselves as part of a teaching, learning and artistic community characterized by collegial personal interaction, mutual respect and sensitivity. Our faculty and staff are dedicated to the following objectives:

• To encourage and challenge students to read, write, speak and think with clarity and to create with imagination in order to address questions of enduring meaning and aesthetic value and thus to realize the complexity of human experience.
• To promote a questioning approach among students to scholarly and social activities.
• To help our students to acquire the skills necessary for personal success and responsible citizenship in the 21st century.
• To model for students an open, reasonable and responsible community of artists and scholars.
• To encourage students to study with seriousness and a sense of purpose and to appreciate their potential and responsibility for service to others.
• To encourage students to be active partners in the learning process; to participate in the life of the College, campus and community; and to foster a general and enduring capacity for learning, intellectual growth, and creativity.
• To provide a supportive classroom and campus environment of mutual respect and open door access between staff, faculty, and students.