Developing our Mission and Vision

1. Developing our Mission and Vision Exploring Mission and Vision

2. Our work over the coming year College Mission CAS Unit Mission Vision Department Mission Vision

3. Simmons College Mission: To provide transformative learning that links passion with lifelong purpose. Vision: Simmons will become a beacon of leadership in the world of higher education; a resource to our nation and world; known for our expertise in fields which improve the human condition; sought out for the findings of our highly reputable research and seen as the global expert in educating women for their own empowerment and for leadership.

4. Scripps To educate women to develop their intellects and talents through active participation in a community of scholars so that as graduates they may contribute to society through public and private lives of leadership, service, integrity, and creativity. CAS Mission Statement • The College of Arts and Sciences promotes discovery and learning by students and faculty in the sciences, the humanities, and the arts. Firmly grounded in a tradition of rigorous disciplinary inquiry, the College also recognizes the value of connections made across disciplinary boundaries and so supports and encourages interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship and teaching. The College is dedicated to the liberal arts mission of higher education, which is to develop the knowledge and understanding needed by citizens of a free and just society. The College faculty are committed to offering courses and programs that prepare students to meet the challenges they will face throughout their lives by emphasizing skills of reasoning, writing, speaking, and independent thinking. In pursuit of its mission, the College will: • support programs of scholarship, research, and creative activity by faculty and students to advance knowledge and enrich human experience; • offer challenging undergraduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences that prepare students to continue learning throughout their lives; • offer exemplary graduate programs to develop the next generation of skilled professionals in selected fields; • strengthen connections between graduate and undergraduate education; • encourage faculty to develop their skills as teachers and mentors of undergraduate and graduate students; • provide opportunities for faculty and students to explore interdisciplinary connections through teaching, research, and intellectual discourse; • expand opportunities in our own region and through international experience for students and faculty to enrich their understanding of human diversity and global issues; • nurture mutually beneficial collaborations with the professional schools at unit, department, and individual levels; • develop partnerships with private and public organizations that advance the University’s service mission and benefit the local and regional community. Approved by the College Assembly, October 27th, 2003

5. Ithaca Vision Statement This College strives to become the standard of excellence for residential comprehensive colleges, fostering intellect, creativity, and character in an active, student-centered learning community. Mission Statement To provide a foundation for a lifetime of learning, this College is dedicated to fostering intellectual growth, aesthetic appreciation, and character development in our students. The College community thrives on the principles that knowledge is acquired through discipline, competence is established when knowledge is tempered by experience, and character is developed when competence is exercised for the benefit of others. A comprehensive college that since its founding has recognized the value of combining theory and performance, Ithaca provides a rigorous education blending liberal arts and professional programs of study.

6. Wellesley Mission: To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world. Core Values- • Making a Difference • Disciplined Thinking • Valuing Diversity • Pragmatic Leadership • Service

7. Tufts Vision As we shape our future, quality will be the pole star that guides us. We will seek quality in our teaching and research and in the services that support our academic enterprise. Our programs will be those that meet our own high standards, that augment each other, and that are worthy of the respect of our students and of scholars, educators, and the larger community. For students, our search for quality will mean opportunities both in and beyond the classroom to become well-educated, well-rounded individuals, professionals, and scholars. For faculty and staff, it will mean opportunities to realize their talents in the service of Tufts' goals. Fulfilling our vision of quality will mean choices. No university can do everything for everyone, and we will seek to do those things in which we can excel. Nor is quality static, and we will therefore welcome change and innovation, continually improving quality in every aspect of the University.

8. Tufts-Arts and Sciences Vision for the School of Arts and SciencesKnowledge makes a difference in the world. Thus, the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University fosters a culture where excellence and innovation are applied to scholarly and creative activities. This environment provides a transformative educational experience to a diverse community of undergraduate and graduate students who will make their mark as leaders, scholars, and citizens in an increasingly interdependent, complex world.

 Guiding Principles for the School • The discrete disciplines of Arts and Sciences – the humanities; the arts; the social, physical, and natural sciences – are each valued and together comprise the strengths of our school. • Creating knowledge and pursuing intellectual and artistic inquiry at the highest levels are essential to support our research mission and our commitment to teaching. • Enhancing and expanding our international reputation for academic excellence are important to ensure that we attract the best students, faculty, and staff. • Educating a citizenry prepared to address societal challenges is a necessary and valuable endeavor. • Transformative experiences within Arts and Sciences positively change the lives of our students as they learn to balance what they have learned with what they want to do and who they want to be. • Collaboration and partnerships across disciplines, within and outside Tufts University, are needed to leverage the School's strengths. • Diversity and inclusion are inherent strengths and necessary for excellence, not problems to be resolved. • Community spirit allows students, faculty, and staff to feel a sense of belonging, accomplishment, and connection to one another. • Using intellect to make a difference, our students are prepared for life as humane, global citizens.

9. Smith Mission • Smith educates women of promise for lives of distinction. A college of and for the world, Smith links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's challenges. Values • Smith is a community dedicated to learning, teaching, scholarship, discovery, creativity and critical thought. • Smith is committed to access and diversity, recruiting and supporting talented, ambitious women of all backgrounds. • Smith educates women to understand the complexity of human history and the variety of the world's cultures through engagement with social, political, aesthetic and scientific issues. • Smith prepares women to fulfill their responsibilities to the local, national and global communities in which they live and to steward the resources that sustain them.

10. Wheaton Wheaton College provides a transformative liberal arts education for intellectually curious students in a collaborative, academically vibrant residential community that values a diverse world.

11. Amherst • Amherst College educates men and women of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek, value, and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. • Amherst brings together the most promising students, whatever their financial need, in order to promote diversity of experience and ideas within a purposefully small residential community. Working with faculty, staff, and administrators dedicated to intellectual freedom and the highest standards of instruction in the liberal arts, Amherst undergraduates assume substantial responsibility for undertaking inquiry and for shaping their education within and beyond the curriculum. • The College is committed to learning through close colloquy and to expanding the realm of knowledge through scholarly research and artistic creation at the highest level. Its graduates link learning with leadership—in service to the College, to their communities, and to the world beyond.

12. Wheelock Mission To improve the lives of children and families. Vision As a private college with a public mission, Wheelock strives to be the premier college educating people to create a safe, caring, and just world for children and families. As we have since 1888, we contribute to the vitality of families, communities, and societies by: Educating students who are well prepared academically and as practitioners with real-world experience—ready to be leaders and advocates, confident in their abilities, and sought after in a wide range of careers; Advocating for programs, policies, and laws that enhance the quality of life for children and families. Values We are committed to being a dynamic, rigorous, and transformational learning, living, and working community underpinned by theory, practice, research, and advocacy. We infuse all we do with a focus on achievement, integrity, mutual respect, multiculturalism and diversity, and social justice with a global perspective. We value the power of partnerships and collaborations to effect positive change for children and families. We work to ensure that graduates view their Wheelock experience as a valuable investment that serves them well throughout their professional and personal lives.

13. Smith Mission Smith College educates women of promise for lives of distinction. A college of and for the world, Smith links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's challenges. Values Smith is a community dedicated to learning, teaching, scholarship, discovery, creativity and critical thought. Smith is committed to access and diversity, recruiting and supporting talented, ambitious women of all backgrounds. Smith educates women to understand the complexity of human history and the variety of the world's cultures through engagement with social, political, aesthetic and scientific issues. Smith prepares women to fulfill their responsibilities to the local, national and global communities in which they live and to steward the resources that sustain them.

14. Emerson Mission: Emerson College educates students to assume positions of leadership in communication and the arts and to advance scholarship and creative work that brings innovation, depth, and diversity to these disciplines. This mission is informed by core liberal arts values that seek to promote civic engagement, encourage ethical practices, foster respect for human diversity, and inspire students to create and communicate with clarity, integrity, and conviction.

15. Washington University in St. Louis Washington University’s mission is to discover and disseminate knowledge, and protect the freedom of inquiry through research, teaching, and learning. Washington University creates an environment to encourage and support an ethos of wide-ranging exploration. Washington University’s faculty and staff strive to enhance the lives and livelihoods of students, the people of the greater St. Louis community, the country, and the world. Our goals are: • To welcome students, faculty, and staff from all backgrounds to create an inclusive community that is welcoming, nurturing, and intellectually rigorous; • to foster excellence in our teaching, research, scholarship, and service;  • to prepare students with attitudes, skills, and habits of lifelong learning and leadership thereby enabling them to be productive members of a global society; and  • to be an institution that excels by its accomplishments in our home community, St. Louis, as well as in the nation and the world.  To this end we intend: • to judge ourselves by the most exacting standards;  • to attract people of great ability from diverse backgrounds;  • to encourage faculty and students to be bold, independent, and creative thinkers;  • to provide an exemplary, respectful, and responsive environment for living, teaching, learning, and working for present and future generations; and  • to focus on meaningful measurable results for all of our endeavors.

16. Washington University College of Arts and Sciences The Mission of the College of Arts & Sciences is to foster an environment that empowers students to build a foundation for lifelong learning and leadership. 

17. Vassar College The mission of Vassar College is to make accessible "the means of a thorough, well-proportioned and liberal education”* that inspires each individual to lead a purposeful life. The College makes possible an education that promotes analytical, informed, and independent thinking and sound judgment; encourages articulate expression; and nurtures intellectual curiosity, creativity, respectful debate and engaged citizenship. Founded in 1861 to provide women an education equal to that once available only to men, the college is now open to all. Vassar supports a high standard of engagement in teaching and learning, scholarship and artistic endeavor; a broad and deep curriculum; a community diverse in background and experience; and a residential campus that fosters a learning community.