Mission Statement, Goals and Values

Motto

Douglas College - A Community of Life-Long Learners

Mission Statement

At Douglas College, we commit to enhancing the skills, knowledge and values of life-long learners in meeting their goals.

At Douglas College, we respond to diverse community needs in a rapidly changing society.

Douglas College Goals

provide an environment that welcomes and responds to the multicultural and diverse nature of our society.
provide an environment that encourages and celebrates individual initiative and responsibility.
provide appropriate student services and education programs for students with a wide diversity of age, background, experience, interests and special needs.
provide students with the opportunity to meet their career goals and to pursue, with success, studies at other post-secondary institutions.
provide an opportunity for students to obtain a broad general education that will develop their capacities and creative talents and enable them to grow as human beings and good citizens of their community in aesthetic and/or applied pursuits.
make our programs, services and facilities available to as many people as possible, through curriculum organization, flexible schedules, and convenient locations.
ensure that our programs and services are affordable to students; correspondingly, that the College offers programs and services that are sustainable through time within its budget levels.
ensure that our programs have defined objectives and standards of excellence, evaluate them against their objectives and standards and make the results publicly available.
provide ongoing learning opportunities, and encourage professional development and self-improvement of our employees.
co-operate with community organizations whose interests and activities are consistent with those of the College, including the visual and performing arts, and recreation.

Douglas College Values

We believe:

that students are our primary focus.
in fostering a dynamic, accessible and supportive teaching and learning environment that prizes excellence and innovation. We value creative and critical thinking and the will to challenge and be challenged.
in honoring the contribution and worth of all individuals. We welcome diversity with its rich complexity and believe that all voices need to be heard.
that it is our duty to be thoughtful and caring stewards of the personal, physical and fiscal resources entrusted to us. We practice social, environmental and community responsibility.
that intellectual growth and exploration inspire well-rounded, responsible and contributing citizens. We invite everyone into the excitement and curiosity of learning.
in the power of dreams and in the power of education to make them come true.