Academic excellence is an integral part of the liberal arts tradition.
The University commits itself to excellence in all its academic and professional pursuits. Its primary goal is to achieve a level of academic excellence in teaching and scholarship that, both in fact and in reputation, rivals the best comprehensive universities. With the exception of a long series of questions on academic integrity in the EAC survey, there were relatively few items directly on academic standards. The first and third of these involve reputational observations of clear and immediate applicability to academic excellence. We can also assume from structure of the third dimension above that revision of syllabi and updating lectures would contribute to academic excellence as identified in the goal statement quoted above.