Medaille Mission Statement
Medaille College concentrates on excellence in teaching, with an emphasis on personal attention to its diverse student body. Its curriculum provides a solid liberal arts and sciences foundation with early access to career-oriented education. The faculty and all of those involved in the mission of education challenge students and themselves to the highest possible standards of achievement, but that challenge is balanced by support for every individual student and a concern that each one succeeds.
The college is committed to providing its students with a quality, broad-based liberal education appropriate to personal development, professional success, and participation in the life of the community. This Mission commitment is reflected in the list of essential core competencies that follows:
- Comprehensive Education: fundamental rather than limited in application or purpose, embracing career skills, core values, and life goals.
- Critical Thinking: intellectual discernment and an active faculty of judgment
- Communication: the ability to write effectively and speak articulately
- Citizenship: awareness of democratic traditions and the responsibilities they entail.
- Engagement: involvement with the world, locally and globally; compassionate interaction with others, unselfish recognition of values larger than oneself.
- Employability: short-term through exposure to local opportunities, long-term through acquisition of adaptable skills and professional versatility
- Analytical skill: foundations in math and logic
- Technological aptitude: knowledge of the current, flexibility in preparation for the future
- Cultural literacy: grounding in the traditions of human intellectual and artistic achievement
- Consciousness of diversity: awareness and sensitivity of the richness of human possibility
All campus educators are dedicated to creating an effective educational environment in which students will successfully achieve these critical educational objectives.
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