Vision, Mission, Purposes, and Values
Eastern Arizona College is committed to empowering students for lifetime success. Guided by our vision to create a sense of community and provide world-class education, we strive to prepare individuals to navigate a complex, ever-changing world.
As a student-centered institution, we offer accessible, culturally enriching, and innovative educational programs. We proudly support our students with university transfer degrees, workforce-ready associate degrees, and certificates, while also providing quality support services to help them achieve their goals.
Through our values of accountability, inclusion, innovation, integrity, quality, and tradition, we are dedicated to fostering an environment that promotes leadership, citizenship, and lifelong learning.
Join us in our endeavor to support the educational, cultural, and economic needs of our community.
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Vision
Create a sense of community and provide world-class education, we strive to prepare individuals to navigate a complex, ever-changing world.
Mission
Eastern Arizona College is a student-centered institution that prepares individuals to thrive in a complex, ever-changing world through accessibility, cultural development, and innovative educational programs.
Purposes
The College shall:
- Provide university transfer degree programs and courses.
- Offer associate degree and certificate programs that meet workforce needs of the local and global communities.
- Maintain quality support services to assist students in identifying and achieving personal, educational, and career goals.
- Support the educational, cultural, and economic needs of the community.
- Offer activities and programs that promote general student welfare while fostering an environment in which students can develop leadership, citizenship, and character.
- Provide innovative activities and programs that foster life-long learning.
- Facilitate opportunities beyond traditional two-year programs through collaborative partnerships.
Values
The following values guide the institution’s programs and initiatives:
- Accountability: Accepting responsibility for your actions.
- Inclusion: Inviting and working with others from all backgrounds.
- Innovation: Striving to find and incorporate new ideas, methods, and technologies to improve our offerings and internal systems.
- Integrity: Firm adherence to moral values.
- Quality: Providing higher education and services of great value and excellence.
- Tradition: Building on the foundations of those who came before for the future of those who will come after.