Community College Mission Statement
Connecticut’s Community Colleges are statewide leaders and partners in the academic, economic, and cultural lives of our communities, providing comprehensive, accessible, innovative, and affordable learning opportunities to diverse populations. To realize this distinctive mission, the Community Colleges:
- provide a broad range of credit and non-credit liberal arts and sciences, career, and technical, associate degree and certificate programs leading to: transfer, employment, and lifelong learning;
- promote learner success and inclusion through a stimulating, nurturing learning environment, high quality instruction, support services, and co-curricular activities;
- support economic development through partnerships with labor, business, industry, government and our communities, providing workforce development, business development, technology transfer;
- build community through the sponsorship of intellectual, cultural, social and recreational events and activities;
- engage students and community members to become active and responsible leaders in their communities.