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K College Mission
Kalamazoo College prepares its graduates to better understand, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world.
As a means of carrying out this mission, members of the Kalamazoo College community provide through the curricular and co-curricular programs of the K-Plan an education of broad liberal learning deepened and enriched by experiential, international, and multicultural dimensions. The K-Plan combines rigorous liberal arts academics, career development programs, meaningful study abroad, a senior individualized project, and a residential living experience that offers a wide variety of co-curricular opportunities. |
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Why plan? Because it is important that a college community understand what it is about, what its values are, what it advocates, and where it wants to go, if it is ever to achieve its goals.
Although we cannot predict the world five years from today, we must try to steer the path of the College in the direction we think we want to pursue. We also must honor our tradition of financial health and fiscal prudence, and strategic planning is an element of the proper stewardship of our resources. It might not be a certainty that we will reach our goals in an uncertain world, but it is certainly less likely that we will reach our goals if we do not even try to ascertain in advance what those goals are and how we might pursue them.
We believe that the most significant outcome of the strategic planning process is the planning process itself as a tool for self-examination with regard to aspirations, accomplishments, and future goals.
Undertaking a strategic planning process represents a commitment to regularly review the strategic plan, to modify it, and to continue the process of consultation, discussion, and dialogue that has characterized the creation of this document.
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