Mission:

Through an integration of the liberal arts and the professions, Hood College provides an education that empowers students to use their hearts, minds and hands to meet personal, professional and global challenges and to lead purposeful lives of responsibility, leadership, service and civic engagement.

Vision:

Hood College aspires to be a premier, comprehensive liberal arts college by offering its students an excellent and engaging educational experience that prepares graduates for success.

Values:

Knowledge and intellectual freedom: The power of ideas to transform lives, for the past to illuminate the present and for theory to guide practice;

Honor and integrity: Living lives that adhere to the highest standards of ethics, honesty, trustworthiness and respect for the self and others, as symbolized by Hood’s honor code;

Leadership: The art of influencing others by setting an example through words, deeds, service and responsible citizenship;

Diversity and inclusiveness: Living the dream in which individuals are judged by the content of their character;

Responsible stewardship: The responsibility to use talents, capabilities and resources to the best of one’s abilities to excel; and

Hope: Making the world a better place by living with values and pursuing opportunities to the fullest while being mindful of obligations to self and society as responsible citizens of a democracy.