Draft of Ithaca College Mission Statement
Ithaca College is dedicated to fostering
the intellectual growth, aesthetic appreciation, and character
development of our students. The Ithaca 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 has always
recognized the value of combining theory and performance, Ithaca
provides a rigorous education in both liberal and professional
programs of study. Our teaching and scholarship are motivated
by the need to be informed by, and to contribute to, the world’s
scientific and humanistic enterprises. To provide a foundation
for a lifetime of learning, we strive to ensure that our students’
education is based on theory and empirically validated knowledge.
Learning at Ithaca extends beyond the classroom to encompass
a broad range of residential, professional, and extracurricular
opportunities. All members of our community — students,
professors, staff, and alumni — contribute to the learning
process.
Ithaca College is committed to attracting
a diverse body of students, at both the undergraduate and graduate
level. All the students have in common the motivation to achieve
excellence in their chosen fields and to share the responsibilities
of citizenship and service in the global community. |
Comments on the draft of the mission statement
should be submitted by Monday, November 8, to the Office
of the Provost or to any member of the mission statement
subcommittee: Bonaguro; John Bradac, director of career services;
Kyle Johnson ’00, student trustee; Nancy Pringle, vice president
and College counsel; Carl Sgrecci, vice president and treasurer;
Marina Todd, director of college relations; and Robert Ullrich,
dean of the School of Business.
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Editor: Keith
Davis
