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MISSION STATEMENT

Morris Brown College, founded in 1881 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college engaged in teaching, research, and public service in the arts, humanities, education, professional programs, social sciences, and natural sciences.

The primary Mission of the College is to provide educational opportunities in a Christian environment that will enable its students to become fully functional persons in society. In accomplishing this Mission, the College prepares graduates to live meaningful and personally rewarding lives, therefore enabling them to make socially constructive and culturally relevant contributions to society. In fulfilling this Mission, the College accepts the obligation to place events and points of view in the context of humanity's long intellectual history and to expose both to the light of humanity's best thinking. To that end, the College must maintain the distance that will permit engagement with contemporary events only to the extent that such a focus does not
interfere with the ability to study with objectivity and reflect upon such events dispassionately.

Morris Brown College, in its commitment to academic excellence, provides experiences that foster and enhance intellectual, personal, and interpersonal development for students who have demonstrated the potential to compete in a challenging undergraduate liberal arts program of study. Moreover, since educational endeavors may not be circumscribed by the limitations that students bring with them to the institution, the College, in its commitment to a liberal admissions policy, provides access to personal development and intellectual growth for students who show potential for sustained study at the undergraduate level. The College recognizes that variables characterizing students admitted on this basis often reflect experiences that may not be indicators of capabilities of future accomplishments.

Because the most universal criterion by which Morris Brown College and any other institution may be measured is the achievement of its alumni in competition, the College seeks to provide its students with:

·	An environment that will foster the development of a wholesome attitude toward, and a full appreciation for, the cultural heritage of the human race as epitomized in major intellectual and/or cultural disciplines;

·	Knowledge that represents a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of the intellectual and cultural disciplines embodied in the Liberal Arts tradition of the General Education Program;

·	Experiences that will promote an awareness of, and sensitivity to, the societal structures and processes which persistently provoke the climate and substance of social change;

·	A set of skills that will equip them to negotiate effectively the global political, social, economic, and cultural environments;

·	An understanding of, and respect for, the moral and spiritual values of Christianity and other world religions;

·	Preparation in the scholarly tradition that will support graduate and professional studies;

·	Training that will permit active participation in a rapidly changing, scientific, and technologically advanced society as an intellectually competent and professionally proficient individual;

·	Opportunities to contribute to research, artistic, and other intellectual endeavors;

·	Opportunities for public service and experiential training, including opportunities that help to enrich the lives of citizens in local, state, national, and international communities.

Vision Statement

Morris Brown College -- founded on service, grounded in excellence, and anchored in tradition -- prepares and promotes students destined for a lifetime of learning and achievement in a global society.