The goals of Quincy College are:

  • To create an educational environment that stimulates an enthusiasm for learning, critical thinking, cultural awareness, personal initiative, and civic responsibility;
  • To encourage and enable students to realize their full potential and to achieve their personal, educational, and career goals;
  • To offer programs that foster successful student transition to four-year colleges and/or careers;
  • To offer certificate programs that develop and enhance the essential skills and knowledge necessary to be contributing members of the workforce;
  • To provide essential resources and services in support of the academic programs;
  • To facilitate service learning opportunities and internships which connect the community with the academic programs;
  • To offer educational and training programs to meet the needs of employers;
  • To encourage community education through non-credit programs; and
  • To provide a forum for reasoned public discourse on intellectual, cultural, and social

Original: October 1999