VISION AND MISSION STATEMENTS
Vision Statement
Middle Georgia College will be a dynamic learning-centered environment of excellence and
innovation which builds upon its tradition of providing higher education opportunities, dedicated services
and enriching experiences in a caring, challenging, engaging, and enjoyable community atmosphere.
Mission Statement
Middle Georgia College (MGC) is a state college unit of the University System of Georgia with a focus on providing constituents access to certificate,
associate, and select baccalaureate programs in academic transfer or occupation related programs of study. The College is dedicated to providing a dynamic,
learning-centered, caring and technically advanced environment of excellence. As a multi-campus, residential institution, the College pursues
innovative opportunities to provide services to its traditional and non-traditional students primarily from rural areas of south central Georgia and
will maintain a recognized legacy of affordable higher education and community support services of the highest quality. The College also serves
as the only higher education institution of aviation for the State of Georgia.
The College’s historic main campus in Cochran offers academic programs of study through the baccalaureate degree for commuting and residential
students. The Institution’s Georgia Aviation campus in Eastman provides aviation specific technical education for the State while supporting
the main campus’ Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management degree program. The Dublin Center provides educational opportunities for central
Georgia commuting students. Selected certificate and associate degree programs, as well as additional advanced higher education opportunities, are
offered online and in collaboration with participating four-year institutions. In addition, MGC provides undergraduate education addressing the economic
development needs of Georgia’s heartland and the state’s aviation industry.
To accomplish its mission, MGC commits to the following goals:
- Promoting a campus-wide commitment to student learning that is embedded in course and program design, teaching, achievement, and student development activities.
- Providing the highest quality classroom and/or advanced distance learning instruction that enriches and challenges learners in all programs at all levels.
- Creating a welcoming campus community that nurtures a culturally and ethnically diverse student body.
- Offering programs of excellence leading to certificates and associate degrees to prepare students for immediate employment and/or acceptance to baccalaureate
degrees at Middle Georgia College or other colleges and universities.
- Offering a signature aviation program that is the only public curriculum in Georgia leading to select baccalaureate degrees in aviation management
as well as certificate and associate programs in flight and aviation technology specialties which prepare students for immediate employment, careers, and
further study in aviation.
- Providing the Georgia Academy of Mathematics, Engineering, and Sciences (GAMES) program which challenges gifted students to experience the rigors of higher
education at an earlier entrance.
- Providing the support resources, services, and learning activities that enhance student learning, facilitate student success, and promote personal enrichment.
- Providing and supporting an adaptive, effective, and efficient human and physical infrastructure which maintains and supports the learning environment.
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