OUR MISSION
Stark State College positively influences the life of each student and our communities by providing access to high-quality, relevant, and affordable education.

OUR VISION
Stark State College aspires to be Ohio’s leading community college in fostering student success and community prosperity through innovation, responsiveness, and partnerships.

OUR VALUES

Student-centered

We will make decisions and establish policies based on how they impact students, while maintaining quality learning. Our first priority is serving and educating students.

Academic excellence

We will demonstrate value by upholding high academic and professional excellence and by meeting rigorous standards of certification and accreditation.

Collaboration

We will embody a collaborative spirit, both internally and externally. We will work seamlessly within departments, across the institution as well as in building and leveraging strategic relationships with education, business, and community partners to accomplish our mission.

Belonging

We will provide the environment that makes students, faculty, staff, and our community feel welcomed and valued. We will provide each student the support and services needed to be successful in the college experience. We encourage a variety of perspectives.

Innovation

We will implement creative ideas and take informed risks that enhance teaching and learning and student success, and we will be responsive to our ever-changing environment.

Integrity

We will promote a culture that upholds the principles of truth, facts, transparency, authenticity, fiscal stability, and stewardship.

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT
Stark State College affirms its dedication to fostering an environment that upholds the values of intellectual diversity, personal growth, and equality. This commitment is central to our mission and is reflected in the following principles.

• Stark State College will educate students to seek the truth through free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry.
• Stark State College declares that its duty is to equip students with the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions.
• Stark State College is committed to not requiring, favoring, disfavoring, or prohibiting speech or lawful assembly.
• Stark State College 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.
• Stark State College will treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, hold them to equal standards, and provide them with equality of opportunity with regard to their race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.