Vision + Values

Saint Michael’s College seeks to fulfill the institution’s mission through the pursuit of three interrelated goals:

• To be an academic community that promotes the pursuit of truth, the development of virtue and high levels of excellence in all its academic, social and religious programs with a view to bettering the human condition;
• To conduct its various programs in accordance with policies that are consistent with the principles of the Catholic faith, especially those of truth, justice and charity, and to promote these principles, in fulfillment of its mission throughout the world; and
• To enrich the knowledge of Catholicism in its various dimensions and in relationship to various disciplines and fields of knowledge and to promote the moral and spiritual development of the entire college community.

In the aggregate, Saint Michael's website presents a comprehensive vision of the institution as a superior, Catholic, liberal arts and science, undergraduate, residential college, excelling in the preparation of students for lifelong learning in a global society.