Aquinas College

Aquinas College, an inclusive educational community rooted in the Catholic Dominican tradition, provides a liberal arts education with a global perspective, emphasizes career preparation focused on leadership and service to others, and fosters a commitment to lifelong learning dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the common good.

We value:

• liberal arts education as career and life preparation;
• helping students assess their interests, strengths, weaknesses, and values and set personal, academic, and career goals;
• an approach to education which emphasizes the interrelatedness of knowledge;
• academic majors, career related field experience, community service, and foreign study as enriching components in preparing students to be part of a changing world;
• an openness to truth, wherever it may be found. Values, ethics, and morality are explored in the context of Judeo-Christian ethics and Catholic teaching with full respect for other religious traditions, academic freedom, and personal conscience;
• holistic student development - intellectual, personal, social, physical, spiritual, and vocational through curricular and co-curricular experiences;
• understanding of one's own and other cultures;
• diversity and inclusiveness in a challenging and supportive learning community;
• our Catholic orientation, Dominican heritage, and Ecumenical perspective;
• service to others as a way of living one's beliefs rather than just talking about them and as a connection between the individual and society and the campus and the world;
• an appreciation of all God's creation - people and environment;
• the further development of one's religious belief, one's relationship to God and one's lifelong response to God's call to know, love and serve;
  the trust, support, and encouragement of trustees, alumni, benefactors and friends.