The College declares that
- It will educate students through free, open and rigorous intellectual inquiry.
- Its duty is to help students develop the intellectual skills needed to reach their own informed conclusions.
- 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, hold them to equal standards and provide them equal opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.