Message from the President - Hartwick College

considered part of the total educational experience.
Throughout this experience, there is a consistent emphasis on the Liberal Arts in
Practice. People learn best when they are fully engaged in the learning process.
This involves more than just being active. It requires interaction with faculty, with
fellow students, with challenging ideas from the past and present, with raw
materials of various fields of study in the laboratory or studio and with the world
outside the campus. It allows every student the opportunity to learn how to access
data and communicate effectively with their own notebook computer. It is
through these interactions and hands-on experiences that students grow.
Our Purpose
Our purpose as a college of the liberal arts and sciences is to educate people who
will thrive in and contribute to the world of the future; people who are prepared
to meet the personal, intellectual, and social challenges of a rapidly changing and
increasingly interdependent world.
Hartwick graduates will be noted as being able to thrive in the Webbed world of
the new millennium; a world of global interdependence in which people of the
broadest range of national, ethnic, social, and personal backgrounds will interact
personally and technologically.
To thrive in this context will require that Hartwick students learn to: understand
the world from a variety of perspectives; work constructively with people from a
variety of backgrounds and life experiences; be avid learners and critical thinkers;
communicate effectively and have a well-developed personal presence; be
purposeful in their actions and value-based in their decisions; and know how to
use information technology resources as a routine tool to enhance effectiveness.
Our Values
We are:
• a college concerned with the Liberal Arts in Practice, focusing on the
development of the disciplines of thinking, learning, analyzing, communicating,
and values-based judgment;
• a relationship college, focusing on the development of a 24
hour per day, seven day per week, residential educational experience characterized
by personal responsibility and collaborative relationships among faculty, students,
and staff; and
• a future-directed college, focusing on educating people in ways which will make
them effective and contributing citizens to the world of their future.
Our Character
By being intentional in fulfilling our values we are a college of both quality and
distinctiveness. We are a future-directed community of learners where students,
faculty, and staff are mutually engaged in intellectual, social, and personal learning