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Mission Statement: The University of Delaware exists to cultivate learning, develop knowledge, and foster the free exchange of ideas. State-assisted yet privately governed, the University has a strong tradition of distinguished scholarship, research, teaching, and service that is grounded in a commitment to increasing and disseminating scientific, humanistic, and social knowledge for the benefit of the larger society.

To serve the community, the nation, and the world by discovering, communicating, and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry, and by educating and preparing students to discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation Brown accomplishes this through a partnership of students & teachers in a unified community called a university-college

Roanoke College develops students as whole persons and prepares them for lives of learning, service, and leadership by supporting their intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and personal growth. The college pursues this through a liberal-arts centered curriculum combined with experiential and career-oriented programs to prepare graduates for meaningful careers and civic leadership.

Corban University is a private Christian university that educates students from a biblically centered perspective, equipping them with academic skills and spiritual formation to serve and lead in their careers and communities. The school emphasizes integrating Christian faith with professional competence so graduates can “make a difference” in the world.

To provide quality post secondary educational opportunities and contribute to the betterment of society through research and development

The Trustees govern and support the University’s work to advance high‑quality education, world‑class research, clinical care, and public service. In practice the institution focuses on teaching and discovery across its schools, delivering patient care through its medical enterprise, and engaging with local and global communities to translate research into impact.

Leading the nation as the next-generation land-grant university, K-State is the first operational land-grant university in the United States. The home of the Wildcats is setting the standard for inspired learning, creativity, discovery and engagement – positively impacting society and transforming lives in Kansas and around the world.

The mission of Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts is to educate aspiring artists through a rigorous studio curriculum rooted in figurative and representational art. The College offers a comprehensive liberal arts education essential for advanced critical and creative thought. The program reflects a deep respect for both traditional and innovative forms of teaching and provides an unrivalled foundation for developing unique visual expressions. Upon completion of their studies, students will be equipped not only to articulate their culture, but also to give it shape and substance.

Mystic Seaport's mission is to create a broad, public understanding of the relationship of America and the Sea. In order to accomplish this we: document, preserve, and stimulate scholarship in American maritime history and convey to a wide and diverse public the stories of America and the Sea through the Museum's collections, exhibitions, education programs, library, communications, products, and publications; collect and preserve representative examples of American maritime material culture emphasizing art, commerce, technology and science; collect and preserve examples of significant commercial and recreational watercraft related to America's maritime history, focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; perpetuate skills associated with America's maritime past; and interpret representative elements of life in nineteenth-century New England maritime communities.

Assumption University is a private Catholic liberal‑arts institution sponsored by the Augustinians of the Assumption that prepares students for thoughtful citizenship and meaningful careers by integrating a liberal‑arts education with professional programs and formation in the Catholic intellectual tradition.

Wellesley College is a private, nonprofit liberal-arts college for women that provides an undergraduate education focused on academic excellence, leadership, and public service; the College prepares students for careers and civic engagement through a rigorous curriculum, research opportunities, and a supportive residential community.

The purposes for which the Art Institute of Chicago is formed are: to found, build, maintain, and operate museums, schools, libraries of art, and theaters; to provide support facilities in connection therewith; to conduct appropriate activities conducive to the artistic development of the region; and to conduct and participate in appropriate activities of national and international significance; To form, conserve, research, publish, and exhibit a permanent collection of objects of art of all kinds; to present temporary exhibitions that include loaned objects of art of all kinds; and to cultivate and extend the arts by appropriate means; To establish and conduct comprehensive programs of education, including presentation of visual artists, teachers of art, and designers; to provide educational services in written, spoken, and media formats; To provide lectures, instruction, and entertainment, including dramatic, film, and musical performances of all kinds, which complement and further the general purposes of the institute; To receive in trust property of all kinds and to exercise all necessary powers as trustee for such trust estates whose objects are related to the furtherance of the general purposes of the institute or for the establishment or maintenance of works of art.