MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of Saint Augustine‘s College is to sustain a learning community in which students can prepare academically, socially, and spiritually for leadership in a complex, diverse, and rapidly changing world. To fulfill the mission, the faculty fosters scholarship and creativity through varied approaches to teaching and learning; the administration facilitates the enterprise by effectively garnering and managing financial and human resources; and the staff contributes to efficient operations by providing essential support services. Through these means, the College pursues excellence by developing:
- flexible and innovative courses of study that integrate theory and practical application through experiential approaches to learning;
- opportunities for students to apply what they learn through service learning, community service, internships, and cooperative education;
- purposeful and individualized programs of study for non-traditional students, through preparation for a career change or re-entry into the work force; and
- knowledge and appreciation of cultural differences through interdisciplinary courses, study abroad, and other programs.
Saint Augustine‘s College is an undergraduate, coeducational, liberal arts institution, affiliated with the Episcopal Church. Founded in 1867 to educate freed slaves, the College‘s mission has grown with the diversification of its student body from an African-American student base to one that is multi-national and multi-racial. Grounded in the liberal arts tradition since it‘s founding, the College first awarded baccalaureate degrees in 1931. Programmatic emphasis has shifted from early offerings in normal and industrial education, and pre-theological training, to current emphasis in scholarship, research, and community service.
INSTITUTIONAL GOALS
Saint Augustine‘s College is a four-year liberal arts institution preparing students for leadership roles in a complex, diverse, and rapidly changing world. Students, faculty, administration, and staff participate cooperatively in the overall teaching-learning process. Students participate through their desire for knowledge, readiness to acquire foundational and analytical skills, and in their potential to adapt to the demands of accelerated global change. The faculty facilitates by teaching and advising students, conducting research, and engaging in other professional development activities. The administration and staff generate and manage resources to support faculty and students. The coordination of all these resources relies upon a consistent and orderly approach to planning and assessment of institutional effectiveness. Institutional research provides data necessary to assess and improve effectiveness in student learning, faculty development, and resource management. To these ends, Saint Augustine's College is committed to achieving the following goals:
- Recruiting, retaining, educating, and graduating students whose academic preparation has occurred in a diversity of economic, social, and cultural contexts;
- Hiring, retaining, developing, and promoting a professional faculty who possess skills and motivation to educate a diverse student body;
- Building student competencies in major academic disciplines on a general education foundation that ensures skills in reading, writing, oral communication, mathematics and computer use;
- Fostering a climate in which students acquire knowledge, values, and skills necessary for success in a complex, diverse, and rapidly changing world;
- Providing and maintaining a broad range of library and learning resources, including information technologies and instructional support facilities, that enhance the teaching-learning process by offering exposure to various disciplines, cultures, and points of view;
- Providing effective leadership and management of the College's financial, physical, and human resources to ensure that they are acquired, retained, allocated, and assessed to promote the stability, security, and long term well-being of the College;
- Employing a comprehensive planning and evaluation system for all major aspects of the College, including assessment of the extent to which the students acquire competencies; the faculty fosters scholarship and creativity through varied approaches to teaching and learning; the administration facilitates the enterprise by effectively acquiring and managing financial and human resources; and the staff contributes to efficient operations by providing essential support services; and
- Conducting ongoing institutional research as a means of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information essential to effective planning and evaluation.
MEMBERSHIPS AND ACCREDITATIONS
The fact that an educational institution is accredited means that it has met required standards and criteria of quality established by a recognized educational or professional organization.Saint Augustine‘s College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate degrees.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
1866 Southern Lane
Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097
Telephone number 404.679.4501In addition to accreditation by SACS, the College holds memberships in and/or is accredited by the:
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
- American Council on Education
- Association of American Colleges
- Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs
- Association of Eastern North Carolina Colleges and Universities
- Association of Episcopal Colleges
- Carolina Association for Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (CACRAO)
- College Entrance Examination Board
- Cooperating Raleigh Colleges
- Cooperative Education Association, Inc.
- Intercollegiate Music Association
- National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)
- National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
- National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
- National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
- North Carolina Association of Colleges and Universities
- North Carolina Association for Independent Colleges and Schools (NCAICS)
- North Carolina Association for Institutional Research (NCAIR)
- North Carolina Association of Summer Sessions
- North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
- North Carolina Honors Association
- Society for College and University Planners (SCUP)
- Southern Association of College and University Business Officers (SACUBO)
- Southern Association for Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (SACRAO)
- United Negro College Fund, Inc.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY POLICY
Saint Augustine‘s College is committed to an educational and working environment in which students, faculty and staff can develop their full intellectual and professional abilities. Saint Augustine‘s College welcomes to its campus students, faculty, staff, alumni, officials and members of the Episcopal Church, friends and other members of the community who seek to advance the mission of the College; pursue a higher education; improve personal and professional skills; and who wish to engage in Church or community service. It is the policy of Saint Augustine‘s College, therefore, to provide educational programs, services, and employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, disability, marital status, pregnancy, or veteran status.Saint Augustine‘s College‘s policy of non discrimination shall apply to all programs and activities of the College, including student admissions, educational programs, non-educational activities, employment and other related activities covered under Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975. Information on the implementation of this policy and/or the statutes referenced should be addressed to the:Office of the Executive Vice PresidentPursuant to federal regulations, the College may collect admissions and enrollment information by racial, ethnic and sex categories for reporting purposes. The provision of such information is voluntary, however, and is not used to determine eligibility for admission.
Saint Augustine's College
1315 Oakwood Avenue
Raleigh, North Carolina, 27610.