The mission of the institution is to educate citizens and citizen-leaders for our society. The institution makesthis true through its commitments to the transformative power of education. Beginning in the classroom withexposure to new ideas, new ways of understanding and new ways of knowing, student teachers embark on ajourney of intellectual transformation. Through a diverse learning environment, where student teachers learnwith people who are studying different topics, come from different walks of life and have evolving identities,intellectual transformation is deepened and further conditions for social transformation are created. From thisexercise, the institution dreams that students will begin to fashion their lives by gaining a sense of what theywant to do with their talents and skills, assessing their values and interest and more over learning how they canbest serve the world.
