College Heritage
Our Values
Elizabethtown College will educate students in a relationship-centered learning community.
Elizabethtown College is a place of people, individuals who live and learn in relationship to each other. At Elizabethtown, students receive personal attention as all members of the campus community commit to express sincere and genuine interest in their educational success.
Elizabethtown’s educational programs engage students in ways that capture their attention, confront them with compelling learning experiences and trigger from them responses beyond what even they thought possible. In this learning community, members of the campus community demonstrate their own passion for subjects and continued learning so that students see how compelling deep engagement is.
Elizabethtown College will foster in students an international and multicultural perspective.
College students today must know how to navigate life in the 21st century, which means understanding how globalization and internationalization have made us all neighbors.
When students enroll at Elizabethtown College, they encounter a part of this international world through faculty and staff who are citizens of countries from around the world, speak a multitude of languages and have studied or lived on other continents.
Elizabethtown College will develop students’ commitment to service and leadership abilities.
Elizabethtown College students will broaden the context by which students learn through acts of leadership and service. Students will engage in both through a variety of settings and methods -- humanistic, political, philanthropic, scholastic, spiritual, artistic and entrepreneurial activities.
Our motto of “Educate for Service” will be demonstrated in distinctive ways as student develop through curricular and cocurricular programs. Students will be equipped with a personal and social awareness, organizational skills and life experiences that prepare them to serve and lead in their home communities, the workplace and beyond.
Elizabethtown College will prepare students for purposeful lives and meaningful work.
Elizabethtown College students are prepared not only with skills for a career but also with an education and learning experiences that will support their evolving life goals. All students engage in a process of self-discovery that helps them prepare for dynamic, purposeful, fulfilling life’s work.
In addition to educating for service, Elizabethtown’s mission is also grounded in principles of integrity and human dignity. Graduates of the College are prepared to make the world a better place, because they have learned to contribute to the common good, put service to others above their own interests and value ethical integrity.
