Georgia College will be a leader within the University System of Georgia in providing educational excellence in a personal environment.
West Georgia College will seek to create for students from various backgrounds every reasonable avenue to intellectual achievement, personal development, and leadership potential without compromising academic excellence.
The College will maintain close contact with the people of the
region, be responsive to their needs while raising their aspirations,
and help generate a more highly-educated populace. West Georgia
College will be recognized for excellence in teaching and
learning, research, and public service in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education. The College will be recognized as being fundamental to the educational, social, cultural, technological,
and economic advancement of the region and state.
Specifically, West Georgia College will be characterized by:
Educational Excellence evidenced by outstanding educational experiences, national and regional recognition of selected programs, faculty who excel in their disciplines, superior staff support, and an increasingly capable student body. At West Georgia, teaching, research, and service will be intricately intertwined and supportive of each other.
A Safe, Supportive Community committed to enhancing learning through close contacts between students and faculty, through small classes taught by senior faculty wherever possible, and through dedicated staff who help provide a vibrant campus life.
An Outstanding, Diverse Faculty and Staff who demonstrate effective communication and teaching skills; utilize new technologies and innovative strategies to enhance student learning; and exhibit the highest standards of intellectual achievement, research, and continuing professional growth.
Educational Opportunities for a Wide Range of Academically- Prepared Students that include a strong academic knowledge base for the development of leadership skills and life-long learning. West Georgia College will help ensure its students' future success by developing the ability of individuals to use current technology; to access, analyze, and interpret relevant facts, information, and knowledge; to think critically and solve problems; and effectively work with and communicate with others. West Georgia College will develop the whole individual so that as alumni they will continue to be contributing members of their families, institutions, communities, state, nation and world.
Educational Opportunities for Exceptional Students: West Georgia will build a reputation for having an honors college with a distinctive liberal arts curriculum and additional centers of excellence in selected undergraduate and graduate majors and professional programs, with student involvement in faculty research, and themes that run across the curriculum, such as communication, leadership development, interdisciplinary studies, critical thinking, and problem solving.
A Region-Wide Learning Community that Engages and Inspires Traditional and Non-Traditional Students to become educated persons with global and multicultural perspectives and advanced technological knowledge. The College will help develop both ethical principles and intellectual flexibility for the future, and will celebrate and energize the human spirit through respecting and supporting individual differences in learning styles, identities, and personal or professional goals.
Pro-Active Partnerships with Public and Private Schools and Other Educational Institutions, Business, Industry, Government, and Cultural and Social Organizations in order to analyze, synthesize, evaluate, predict, and respond to changing state and regional needs; to support Georgia's educational, economic, and cultural development; and to ensure graduates' readiness for the present and future.
A Unified, Clearly Focused College with each part contributing to and understanding how every other part contributes to the mission of the College and to the larger society.