VALUES FOR
Strengthening Community – Engaging Across Difference
The Strengthening Community – Engaging Across Difference initiative was launched in Spring 2024 to strengthen the ability of the St. Olaf community to engage in difficult discussions, care for each other, and work together to find solutions to the many complex and often contentious issues that challenge us today. Rooted in St. Olaf’s mission and vision, the initiative advances a set of core values to guide engagement and provides resources to help our community of solution-seekers develop skills, practices, and knowledge needed for productive, community-focused engagement in a divided world.
Values for Engaging Across Difference
Consistent with the college’s mission to be an inclusive, globally-engaged community, and inspired by its vision of excellence in preparing students of character to be contributing citizens of the world, four aspirational values guide and inform how we as a campus community engage with each other across difference to learn about, discuss and productively address challenging issues.
Ways to engage
Mission:
St. Olaf College challenges students to excel in the liberal arts, examine faith and values, and explore meaningful vocation in an inclusive, globally engaged community nourished by Lutheran tradition.
Vision:
St. Olaf College will be known as one of the country’s best liberal arts colleges, nationally and internationally recognized for excellence, academic rigor and community inclusivity, while developing and preparing students of character to lead lives of substance as contributing citizens of the world, through four commitments: developing the whole person; improving St. Olaf culture and living out our values; empowering diversity, equity and inclusion; becoming agile and focused.
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