The Mission of Shorter College is to provide quality higher education, enabling and encouraging student commitment to active life-long learning, personal spiritual values, responsible citizenship, and community and societal leadership in a global context.

The College seeks to accomplish this Mission through quality undergraduate liberal arts programs, specialized professional programs, and select graduate programs.

Geographically distant locations provide educational opportunities to individuals who are unable to attend classes in a traditional setting.

The College affirms a commitment to the Christian faith and strives to integrate Christian values within a nurturing community in its whole process of education.


Educational Principles for Undergraduate Programs

Shorter College provides a curriculum and educational environment that:

• Effectively immerses students in the historical, scientific, and cultural bases for contemporary civilization by combining intellectual discovery with critical thinking.
  
  
• Engages students in a discussion of the values that bind together our society in general and the Christian community in particular.
  
  
• Ensures that students reach the levels of skill in written and oral communication, mathematics, technology, and information literacy necessary to take full advantage of college coursework and they continue to exercise and enlarge these skills.
  
  
• Persuades students of the value of integrating knowledge and forming relationships among courses and between acquired knowledge and new ideas.
  
  
• Promotes in students the habit of acting on their responsibilities as members of our society and of the world community.
  
  
• Promotes in students the habit of enriching their lives through art and religion.
  
  
• Promotes in students the habit of maintaining physical, spiritual and emotional health and well-being.
  
  
• Prepares students for careers or further education.