The Saint Mary's Board of Trustees approved a revised version of the College's mission statement at their meeting this past Friday.

Before the Board of Trustees approved the revision, the Mission Council and the writing committee, which included the whole Saint Mary's community, revised the statement.

According to Sister Rose Anne Schultz, vice president for Mission, the new mission statement is part of the College's Strategic Plan. Also, the search for a new Saint Mary's president requires a clear mission statement.

During the College's last accreditation process, the Higher Learning Commission determined that a clearer and more concise statement was necessary. While the mission was not changed, the articulation of it is different. The new document contains a more succinct mission statement, as well as a more extensive statement of philosophy and purpose.

"In today's world, it is important to prepare women leaders with the four qualities in the new mission statement: intellectual vigor, aesthetic appreciation, religious sensibility and social responsibility," Schultz said.

Schultz hopes to have the new mission statement printed on cards to be distributed to students as the 2003-04 academic year begins with the Circle of Blessings on August 25.

"Ideally, everyone here should know [the mission statement] and live by it," Schultz said. "It should be the touchstone for everything they do."

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