Mission, Vision, Values & Learning Outcomes

Mission

We create an inclusive and vibrant learning community where everyone is supported to achieve success.

Vision

Inspire, ensure access, and empower action.

Values

  • Community: Our people and the communities we serve are the fabric of our institution. We make a positive difference in the lives of our students, communities, and each other by being inclusive, practicing kindness, cultivating meaningful relationships, and promoting active citizenship and civic engagement.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Diversity is our greatest asset. We create systems, environments, and interactions that welcome, engage, and support all learners.

  • Leadership: As leaders at our college and in our communities, we behave boldly in the face of challenges as we set high expectations, explore new approaches, and hold ourselves accountable through data and transparency.

  • Continuous Improvement: We cultivate an adaptable learning environment that welcomes all to experiment, make mistakes, build skills, and grow.

  • Integrity: We do what’s right, even when it’s hard. We model vulnerability and hold ourselves to high standards in the way we work, learn, and interact with one another.

Institutional Student Learning Outcomes

MCC's 4Cs:

  • Communication - The purposeful development, expression and reception of a message through oral, written or nonverbal means.

  • Critical Thinking - The mental process of effectively identifying, determining, gathering, evaluating, and utilizing resources to innovate and/or to accomplish a specific task.

  • Civic Engagement - Encompasses actions to promote the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.

  • Cultural and Global Engagement - Encompasses the awareness of cultural systems, events, and creations and an ability to apply this cultural and global awareness to human interaction and expression.