
Vision / Mission / Goals
Vision Statement:
GORDON STATE COLLEGE...
where students flourish!
Mission Statement:
To provide an exceptional education through innovative teaching and engaged learning for the benefit of the world in which we live.
Gordon State College will strive:
- To ensure affordable, supportive access to high quality post-secondary education.
- To develop creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, a global perspective and a commitment to lifelong learning that includes a respect for everyone involved in the process.
- To maintain a commitment to engaged faculty-student interaction through intimate classroom experiences, innovative and effective teaching strategies, excellent advising and mentorship programs, and effective student support services.
- To serve the broader community and region by developing academic programs and producing leaders equipped to contribute positively to middle Georgia, the United States, and the world.
- To remember and celebrate the heritage of the College and its graduates.
- To provide a beautiful and vibrant center of learning and scholarship as the touchstone of a diverse, connected community.
Core Values:
Gordon State College LEARNS:
- Life-long scholarship - To develop habits of the mind: creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, a global perspective and a commitment to lifelong learning that includes a respect for everyone involved in the process.
- Engagement - To maintain a commitment to engaged faculty-student interaction through intimate classroom experiences, innovative and effective teaching strategies, excellent advising and mentorship programs, and effective student support services.
- Accessibility - To ensure affordable, supportive access to high quality post-secondary education.
- Respect – To respect and celebrate the diversity, heritage, and history of the College and its graduates.
- Nurture - To nurture a beautiful and vibrant center of learning and scholarship as the touchstone of a diverse, connected community.
- Service - To serve the broader community and region by developing academic programs and producing leaders equipped to contribute to middle Georgia, the United States and the world.