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Mission Statement

Southeastern Technical College is a public, two-year institution that provides accessible, quality educational programs and services designed to enhance the ability of our students to participate in Georgia's economic development.  To accomplish our purpose we provide graduates with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to obtain employment; offer a curriculum which encourages students to develop career, personal, and work ethics values; sponsor co-curricular activities to assist students in the development of leadership, scholarship, and fellowship traits; conduct continuing education and training to allow experienced employees to acquire and maintain advanced levels of competency; provide information literacy skills; and facilitate public adult education programs to improve general population and workforce literacy levels.

Commitment to the Mission Statement

The administration, faculty, and staff demonstrate our commitment to our mission statement in the following manner:

• by maintaining ongoing assessment of community and employment needs to ensure the employability of our graduates and to promote the economic growth of the community, the state, and its citizens;
• by providing career-oriented postsecondary programs of study below the baccalaureate level offered through traditional and distance learning methodologies that prepare graduates for employment;
• by assuring our graduates attain the following general core competencies:
  • The ability to utilize standard written English to produce coherent, well-developed writings.
  • The ability to effectively communicate orally in a public setting.
  • The ability to solve practical mathematical problems.
  • The ability to utilize critical thinking skills.
  • The ability to utilize basic computer skills;
• by providing continuing education programs and courses to update, upgrade, or retrain citizens so that they may continue to meet the challenges of a changing workplace, and/or to enhance the personal development of individuals;
• by providing customized business and industry services which include organizational and technical assessments and strategic planning, training, and consulting to enable employees to maintain competitive skills;
• by providing career counseling, personal assistance/referral services, academic advising, financial aid advisement and counseling, coordination of financial aid awards, job placement, and other student services which support student development;
• by providing support services for nontraditional students and students with special needs;
• by encouraging students to acquire leadership skills and to develop personally, culturally, morally, socially, and intellectually through participation in the general education curriculum and co-curricular activities and programs;
• by providing remedial education, adult education, English literacy programs, and GED preparation for current or prospective students who need to improve basic skills or complete the GED;
• by ensuring access to educational opportunities for all current and prospective students regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, or disabling condition; and
• by systematically evaluating programs and services and using the results of the evaluations for purposes of improvement.