The College declares that
- It will educate students by means of free, open and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth.
- Its duty is to equip students with the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills needed to reach their own informed conclusions.
- It is committed to not requiring, favoring, disfavoring or prohibiting speech or lawful assembly.
- It is committed to creating a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry that respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community.
- Its duty is to treat all faculty, staff and students as individuals, to hold them to equal standards and to provide them equality of opportunity with regard to their race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.