Mission, Vision & Values

View of Lake Champlain from Miller Information Common

Our Mission

We embrace our Champlain tradition as an institution that prepares students to excel through radically pragmatic career-focused education. We are a supportive learning community that advances society by delivering uniquely future-focused academic programs, transformative hands-on experiences, and meaningful connections and collaborations that engage the passions of our students to create a better world.

Our Vision

Champlain College empowers learners. We continuously invent and offer highly distinctive academic programs and practical experiences that lead to outstanding careers and personal success.

Our Values

  • Innovation: We anticipate the future and thrive in dynamic conditions.
  • Engaged Learning: We commit to learning so everyone does meaningful work.
  • Inclusivity: We practice inclusive teamwork and value diverse individual strengths.
  • Practicality: We provide experiential professional education.
  • Interconnectedness: We connect with people and places, from the local to the global.

Our Manifesto

A radically pragmatic education: It's relevant today, and it's years ahead of its time. It fuels initiative. It has purpose. It prepares students in a unique way so they're ready for work, ready for life, ready for anything. Without it you're running in place. With it you're sprinting into the future. At Champlain College, students come to us with passion and determination. We teach them what they want to know and help them understand what needs to be discovered. We provide unparalleled support and revel in the partnerships we create. We offer tools to think and to act, and opportunities to immediately put them to use. Because learning how to think without knowing what to do is an education half-done. At Champlain, both teachers and students stretch. Dreams start coming to life far before the degree is earned. For those who are instinctively ambitious, we provide a springboard for their ideas. We believe our radically pragmatic education is what makes it all possible. It's what helps put initiative into practice. We could say we prepare students for the real world, but at Champlain they're already there.

R/Evolutionary Champlain: 2030 Strategic Plan Goals

GOAL 1: RELENTLESSLY PURSUE AND PROVIDE A WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION
Champlain College provides an unrivaled, career-forward education. Our students join a lifelong learning community who shares their aspirations. Expert faculty and staff deliver to our students a best-in-class curriculum, transformative experiences, and local to global partnerships that forge professional skills, shape interpersonal competencies, positively impact communities, and promote personal success.

GOAL 2: FOSTER A WELCOMING, SUPPORTIVE, AND JUST COMMUNITY
Champlain College fosters a welcoming environment for our community of students, faculty, and staff. We proactively build bridges to create a culture of diversity, equity, integrity, and mutual respect for all, taking care to include historically marginalized groups. We work cooperatively to create an increasingly inclusive culture.

GOAL 3: CULTIVATE ENGAGED AND THRIVING STUDENTS
Champlain College is a dynamic, accessible, and supportive learning environment informed by the complexities of individual student biographies. Students embark on a journey of exploration to discover their passions and career opportunities. Meaningful relationships and endeavors prepare students for a lifetime of learning and fulfillment.

GOAL 4: CHAMPION EMPLOYEE EXCELLENCE
Champlain College attracts, retains, and nurtures forward-thinking educators and professionals by creating a culture where expertise and curiosity are celebrated, and where employees challenge, expand, and push the boundaries of their fields. They pursue their academic and professional passions, work collaboratively, and inspire our students.

GOAL 5: PRIORITIZE CAREER SUCCESS
Champlain College will create career success by building the finest student Career Center in the nation. The Center will attain outstanding results in job placement of graduates, identify and support professionally focused experiential learning, teach skills relevant to career success, develop a robust alumni job network, and research emerging career fields to inform new program development. Champlain will continue to serve as an engine for the Vermont economy.

GOAL 6: ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN ROBUST FINANCIAL HEALTH
Champlain College achieves financial results that fuel innovation, growth, and agility by attaining strategic enrollment and fundraising goals. Capacity to innovate grows through new revenue-generating endeavors. Activities that contribute to strategic goals are prioritized for financial resources.