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Millsaps College

Purpose - Academic Program

  • to select well-prepared students of diverse social, ethnic, geographical, and age backgrounds;
  • to provide for all undergraduates an integrated core curriculum that is designed to foster student development in reasoning, oral and written communication, quantitative thinking, historical consciousness, aesthetic judgment, global and multi-cultural awareness, and valuing and decision-making;
  • to provide opportunities for study in depth and the development of disciplinary competencies in undergraduate programs;
  • to provide a graduate program in business with a general management outlook that develops future leaders and expands the body of knowledge in the practice of management;
  • to foster a caring community that nurtures open inquiry and independent critical thinking;
  • to structure opportunities for students to become competent in self-assessment of their academic progress;
  • to recruit and retain a faculty well-qualified to support the academic program;
  • to provide faculty with resources for professional development in teaching, scholarship, and research.


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