The Values

What We Value

• Excellent teaching that effects deep learning
• Knowledge and its production
• A culture of learning that is both caring and challenging, supportive and rigorous
• Truth expressed with civility
• The intellectual, moral, and social virtues of people from diverse backgrounds and persuasions
• Access of students to faculty by offering predominately small classes, productive advising, and optimum resources
• Freedom and the habit of acting responsibly as a free person
• Clarity and precision of thought and its expression
• Individual and institutional self-knowledge
• Collegial relationships and shared governance