ROCKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
MISSION STATEMENT
Rockland Community College, an open admissions institution,
provides an accessible, responsive, student-centered learning
environment and a cultural resource for the community.
Facilitating the achievement of educational, professional, and
personal goals, Rockland Community College offers quality
higher education and lifelong learning in an atmosphere that
embraces academic excellence, diversity, innovation
and global awareness.
ROCKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DIVERSITY STATEMENT
Rockland Community College embraces diversity at the core of our educational mission.
Diversity is the responsibility of all College constituencies: students, faculty, staff, department
chairs/heads, supervisors, administrators, the President and the Board of Trustees.
Rockland Community College fosters an environment that attracts, recruits, supports and retains
faculty, staff, and students who value diversity. The College promotes a collegial and inclusive
environment by recognizing, promoting, embracing, respecting and celebrating the expansive
range and dimensions of cultures, attitudes, ideas and viewpoints contained within our campus
community.
Embracing and fostering diversity encompasses a level of tolerance and respect, without
judgment, for a multiplicity of traditions and cultures, which include not only race and gender,
but age, citizenship, class, economic status, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender identity,
mental ability, military status, physical appearance, physical ability, political affiliation,
political beliefs, religion, religious beliefs, sex identity, sexual orientation, social status, spiritual
practice, and other ideologies/identifications.
It is essential that our College, in its entirety, encompass diversity; therefore, we are committed
to ensure equal opportunity and to sustain a climate of civility for all who work, study or visit.
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