Goals  
 
Goals of the College
 
  • Recruit and retain qualified students who have evidenced high standards of scholarship, outstanding personal character, and serious educational aims.
  • Maintain a high quality and diverse student body by providing financial aid services and counseling to students.
  • Provide a milieu which promotes scholarship, critical reasoning, and responsiveness to community needs.
  • Foster an environment in which students of varying age and diverse culture may develop an academic and social network that supports their uniqueness and in which professionalism and personal growth can flourish.
  • Provide students with a wide variety of student life and student development programs that facilitate the total development of the individual.
  • Foster the integration of liberal arts, sciences, and professional nursing education so that graduates may make positive contributions to society.
  • Educate graduates who are competent in the application of knowledge and skills and who possess values and attitudes consistent with the nursing profession.
  • Educate graduates to contribute to the advancement of professional nursing and the improvement of the health care system.
  • Motivate graduates to pursue opportunities for lifelong personal and professional development.
  • Provide the foundation for continuing professional development through graduate study in nursing.
  • Recruit qualified nurse educators and professional staff from a local, regional, and national pool who are committed to the mission and philosophy of the College.
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