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STATEMENT OF MISSION

Statement of Mission

Pellissippi State Community College provides a transformative environment fostering the academic, social, economic, and cultural enrichment of the individual and the community. We are committed to success in workforce training and certificate and degree programs.

Our Values

Our mission is guided by our commitment to the following values:

  • Accountability: We are responsible for our actions and to each other. We conduct ourselves for the betterment of our students, the College and the community.
  • Community and Civic Engagement: We support and improve our community by educating and enriching its citizens, partnering with businesses and non-profit agencies, and providing service opportunities for our faculty staff and students.
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA): We show genuine respect for each other’s differences and provide an open, accessible, accommodating, and equitable environment for all.
  • Excellence: We pursue excellence and continuously look for better ways of doing all that we do.
  • Integrity: We demonstrate honesty, transparency and responsibility in our actions and relationships.
  • Relationships: We promote strong connections based upon a foundation of trust among students, faculty, staff and the community we serve.

The Pellissippi Path to Excellence:

  1. Maintaining honesty as our foundation.
  2. Owning our errors, mistakes and oversights while offering grace to our colleagues.
  3. Being difference-makers in the community.
  4. Removing institutional barriers that hinder our mission.
  5. Promoting sustained conversations surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
  6. Being vision-oriented and challenging the status quo.
  7. Celebrating those who demonstrate excellence.
  8. Committing ourselves to lifelong learning for the betterment of the college and community.
  9. Being a solution seeker.
  10. Communicating and making decisions in thoughtful, data-informed, courageous, authentic, transparent, respectful and timely ways.

 

 

Approved: Executive Council, March 4, 1991
Executive Council, December 19, 1991
Reviewed/Recommended: President’s Council, May 1, 1995
Approved: President Allen G. Edwards, May 1, 1995
Approved: Tennessee Board of Regents, December 10, 1999
Approved: President Allen G. Edwards, January 5, 2000
Approved: President Allen G. Edwards, August 6, 2001
Approved: President’s Staff, January 24, 2006
Approved: President Allen G. Edwards, January 24, 2006
Editorial Changes: July 1, 2009
Reviewed/Recommended: President’s Staff, January 24, 2011
Approved: President Allen G. Edwards, January 24, 2011
Reviewed/Recommended: President’s Council, November 23, 2015  
Approved: President L. Anthony Wise, Jr, November 23, 2015  
Editorial Change: February 27, 2018  
Editorial Change: March 7, 2018  
Reviewed/Recommended: President’s Council, March 9, 2020  
Approved: President L. Anthony Wise, Jr., March 9, 2020
Reviewed/Recommended: President’s Council, August 28, 2023
Approved: President L. Anthony Wise, Jr., August 28, 2023