Mission, Vision, Values, & Commitments
Our Mission
To educate and inspire, providing our students with the opportunity to achieve their goals.
Our Vision
Columbus State Community College is central Ohio’s front door to higher education and a leader in advancing our region’s prosperity.
Our Values
STUDENT SUCCESS
We welcome and engage all students in creating individualized, accessible, and mutually
accountable pathways that allow them to pursue their goals.
EQUITY
We cultivate opportunities for all to succeed, working collectively to advance outcomes
that benefit the many communities we serve.
QUALITY
We expect excellence and accountability in ourselves and our students.
INNOVATION
We embrace bold ideas and an entrepreneurial spirit, and we are responsive to the
changing needs of students, employers, and other stakeholders.
BELONGING
We celebrate the humanity of every individual, from any background, and commit to
creating an inclusive working and learning environment for all.
CONTINUOUS LEARNING
We continuously invest in an educational ecosystem devoted to teaching and learning
so that every individual can thrive in a constantly changing world.
PARTNERSHIP
We recognize that more can be accomplished collaboratively than individually, and
we seek like-minded partners to advance our shared goals.
STEWARDSHIP
We are careful and thoughtful stewards of the resources entrusted to us.
LEADERSHIP
We lead by action and example to help our community pursue opportunities and address
the challenges of the 21st century.
Commitments
Columbus State Community College strives to foster an environment where everyone is welcomed into our learning and working community. We celebrate the humanity of every individual and value inclusive learning and working environments for all. We commit to removing barriers and expanding access for all of our people while respecting their unique lived experiences. Ultimately, we center our growing community and our students’ success in all of our work.
STATEMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH OHIO REVISED CODE SECTION 3345.0216
- Columbus State educates students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth.
- Our duty is to equip students with the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions.
- Columbus State does not require, favor, disfavor, or prohibit speech or lawful assembly.
- Columbus State seeks to create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community.
- Columbus State’s duty is to treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, to hold them to equal standards, and to provide them equality of opportunity, with regard to those individuals' race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
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General Education Statement
General education at Columbus State Community College provides students with a well‐rounded educational experience that develops critical thinking skills and a broader knowledge of the larger world around them. Through a variety of academic disciplines, students develop and refine intellectual virtues like curiosity, open‐mindedness, and analytical judgment. Students also explore ideas, concepts, values, beliefs, social institutions, and cultural experiences that build a basis for civic virtues like public mindedness and an appreciation of the varieties of human existence.