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After reading the mission statement, I feel that the college is doing an excellent job in keeping with the ideas and ideals outlined in the statement. However, I do feel that it is this very statement that is holding the college back from any significant change. In trying to follow to the statement, which was approved more than a decade ago (1998), the college is getting in its own way. It seems as though the statement wants to go one way and the college another.

 I also believe that the statement is worded in a way that defines how it should be followed and this by itself takes away from the ideals of the statement. I feel that a statement should not define an academic curriculum but rather the curriculum should lead to the statement. Almost like a self fulfilling prophesy in the sense that if the academic path is set right and the students are given a certain degree of flexibility while still ensuring that they have at least been exposed to subjects outside of their comfort zones, the college will have achieved its goals.

 I also think that the statement is a bit too specific in what it expects out of its students. I think a statement should state the basic ideal of the college in such a way that it allows an individual to take any path the individual wants to a predetermined end. Such, as the college's goal to make  "students to be responsible citizens who provide service to and leadership for an increasingly interdependent world."