Mission Statement
The University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College is America’s unique private/public institution of higher education designed to provide learners the opportunity to attain a high quality, high-value education. Our personalized, learner-centered environment promotes successful lives, careers, and responsible citizenship.
Statement of Commitment
Rio Grande declares that it will educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth. Its duty is to equip students with the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own informed conclusions. It is committed to not requiring, favoring, disfavoring, or prohibiting speech or lawful assembly. It is committed to creating a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community. Rio Grande declares that its duty is to treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, to hold them to equal standards, and to provide them equality of opportunity, with regard to those individuals' race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. (Statement of Commitment as required by the Advancing Ohio Higher Education Act.)
Vision Statement
Rio will continue to be a learner-centered community. It will continually provide support, developmental activities and modern equipment for faculty, staff and students. This support enables the faculty and staff to increase the ongoing learning and academic achievements of the students. Rio will consistently provide an environment where learning is the priority and excellent teaching is honored. The institution will respond quickly to regional, state, national and international needs.
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Strategic Plan2024-25 Viewbook
