LAC Mission statement:

Lewiston-Auburn College of the University of Southern Maine is committed to being a national leader in interdisciplinary education, to serving as a resource for the community, and to providing an outstanding educational experience for its students through degree programs that are responsive to changing cultural and workplace demands and are available to a non-traditional and diverse student body.

The aim of the college is to increase the educational preparedness of the people of central Maine for meeting the challenges of our dramatically changing, global and pluralistic world. The curriculum is marked by integration between the liberal arts disciplines, between the liberal arts, the professional concentrations and the workplace, and between the college and the community. We hire and retain faculty who embrace a teaching philosophy that emphasizes student-centered learning, analytical and creative thinking, effective oral expression and writing across the entire curriculum. The college makes a rigorous liberal arts education available to students of varying levels of readiness in order to foster in them a sense of ethical and civic responsibility, a disposition toward lifelong learning, and the capacity to live responsible, creative and productive lives.

revised & approved: May 21, 2003