Mission:

The mission of Kalamazoo College is to prepare its graduates to understand better, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world.

Vision:

By 2017 Kalamazoo College will be recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in innovative education that provides students with the following:

A learning-focused environment that integrates academic excellence, experiential education, and outstanding co-curricular experiences.
A learning community that is residential, diverse, inclusive, student-focused, and comprehensively internationalized.
Multiple experiences for global learning and leadership that include an in-depth education abroad experience.
Outstanding preparation for life and leadership.

The Kalamazoo College experience will help graduates become:

Outstanding leaders;
Responsible global citizens sensitized to intercultural and international diversity;
Innovative problem solvers prepared to address the challenges of the future;
Effective agents of transformational change;
Engaged, ethical citizens; and
Alumni who maintain life-long connections with the College.

This integrated student experience will be supported by:

Excellent faculty who are models of intellectual vitality and who integrate strong discipline-based expertise, interdisciplinary learning, innovative educational approaches, and a commitment to student learning;
Outstanding staff and administration who exhibit professional competence, a strong service orientation, and a commitment to the development of students; and
The physical and technological infrastructure and the financial resources necessary to meet the College's current and future needs.