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The mission of the university is to develop in its students capacities for critical analysis, aesthetic appreciation, sound judgment, and apt expression that will sustain a lifetime of intellectual curiosity, active inquiry, and reasoned independence. A Puget Sound education, both academic and cocurricular, encourages a rich knowledge of self and others; an appreciation of commonality and difference; the full, open, and civil discussion of ideas; thoughtful moral discourse; and the integration of learning, preparing the university's graduates to meet the highest tests of democratic citizenship. Such an education seeks to liberate each person's fullest intellectual and human potential to assist in the unfolding of creative and useful lives.

Pacific Lutheran University is a comprehensive university with an enrollment of more than 3600 students. A member of the Associated New American Colleges, PLU is committed to the integration of liberal arts studies and professional preparation. A dynamic academic program features five professional schools and selective graduate programs that maintain a strong liberal arts emphasis at their core. PLU is the only Northwest University to be ranked within the top 15 western region universities in every "Best Colleges" survey published annually by the US News & World Report. Founded in 1890 by Scandinavian immigrants, PLU has been closely affiliated with the Lutheran church throughout its history and is now a university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. PLU cherishes its dedication to educating for lives of service, as well as its distinguished and distinctive academic program that emphasizes curricular integration and active learning.

The Mission of the Olympic College Foundation is to serve and enrich all of our communities by providing quality education and training for all who seek to improve their lives through learning. The Foundation was established to promote and receive philanthropic gifts for the benefit of Olympic College students. The Foundation seeks philantrhopic gifts for student scholarships, program enhancements, capital projects, as well as cultural events and activities that enrich the entire college community.

Golden Gate University was founded in 1901 and offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business and management, accounting, taxation, and law. Golden Gate University's mission is to prepare individuals to lead and serve by providing high-quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging learning environment that embraces professional ethics and diversity.

The mission of Occidental College is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality—one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex, interdependent and pluralistic world. The distinctive interdisciplinary and multicultural focus of the College's academic program seeks to foster both the fulfillment of individual aspirations and a deeply rooted commitment to the public good. This mission is anchored by four cornerstones: excellence, equity, community and service. These building blocks, in one form or another, have long been the basis for the College's commitment to providing responsible leaders and citizens for our democratic society. Choosing them to support the future helps to ensure that the College remains true to its mission while adapting to a changing world.

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to its programs and opportunities by qualified learners Bates offers a curriculum and faculty that challenge students to attain intellectual achievements and to develop powers of critical assessment, analysis, expression, aesthetic sensibility.

Brandeis University is an educational institution, a community of scholars and students united by their commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and its transmission from generation to generation.

FOUNDED UPON THE VALUES OF THE SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR AND ROOTED IN THE CATHOLIC TRADITION, NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR UNIVERSITY SERVES ITS STUDENTS AND THE COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING EXCELLENT PROFESSIONAL AND LIBERAL ARTS PROGRAMS IN WHICH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND THE VALUES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND GLOBAL PEACE ARE INTEGRAL TO THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE. NDNU IS A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE LEARNING COMMUNITY THAT CHALLENGES EACH MEMBER TO CONSCIOUSLY APPLY VALUES AND ETHICS IN HIS OR HER PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL, AND PUBLIC LIFE.

The Mission of the UWM Foundation is to support the educational, literary and scientific endeavors of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee by receiving, managing and distributing gifts to benefit the University’s students, faculty, programs and community.In addition, the UWM Foundation provides leadership, oversight and direction to its affiliated corporations, the UWM Real Estate Foundation and the UWM Research Foundation. These corporations create new University facilities to support student life, research, academics and regional economic development, and provide new sources of revenue from research commercialization and entrepreneurial activities.

MONMOUTH COLLEGE PROVIDES A TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE WITHIN A CARING COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS. AS A RESIDENTIAL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE, WE EMPOWER STUDENTS TO REALIZE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL, LIVE MEANINGFUL LIVES, PURSUE SUCCESSFUL CAREERS, AND SHAPE THEIR COMMUNITIES AND WORLD THROUGH SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP.

The mission of Westminster College is to help men and women develop competencies, commitments and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. The liberal arts tradition is the foundation of the curriculum continually designed to serve this mission in a rapidly changing world.The College sees the well-educated person as one whose skills are complemented by ever-developing values and ideals identified in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Westminster's quest for excellence is a recognition that stewardship of life mandates the maximum possible development of each person's capabilities.

We educate women to lead and influence.We educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the Catholic intellectual tradition, emphasizing scholarly inquiry and social justice teaching as lived by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.We welcome a rich diversity of students, with a baccalaureate college for women at the heart of the university and graduate and adult colleges for women and men. Committed to excellence and opportunity, St. Catherine University develops leaders who act with integrity.Our mission is based on three core principles: Catholic, Women and the Liberal Arts.