Menu Search Mission, Principles and Practices The mission of Earlham College, an independent, residential college, is to provide the highest quality undergraduate education in the liberal arts, including the sciences, shaped by the distinctive perspectives of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). To provide education of the highest quality with these emphases, Earlham’s mission requires selection of an outstanding and caring faculty committed to creating an open, cooperative learning environment. The College provides for the continuous support and development of this faculty. The teaching-learning process at Earlham is shaped by a view of education as a process of awakening the “teacher within,” so that our students will become lifelong learners. Students at Earlham are encouraged to be active, involved learners. The College provides extensive opportunities for students and faculty to interact with each other as persons and to learn from each other in a cooperative community, an important aspect of which is collaborative student/faculty research. At Earlham College, this education is carried on with a concern for the world in which we live and for improving human society. The College strives to educate morally sensitive leaders for future generations. Therefore, Earlham stresses global education, peaceful resolution of conflict, equality of persons, and high moral standards of personal conduct. Teaching and learning in pursuit of truth A basic faith of Friends is that all truth is God’s truth; thus, Earlham emphasizes: pursuit of truth, wherever that pursuit leads; lack of coercion—letting the evidence lead that search; respect for the consciences of others; openness to new truth and therefore the willingness to search; veracity and rigorous integrity in dealing with the facts; and the application of what is known to improving our world. About us Collegiate profile Campus history “Principles and Practices create a space where you know what to expect as far as how you will be treated and you know what others expect from you. It creates a community that can stand together when tested. The values gained through understanding and practicing them are important here and something people carry out wherever they go.” … Eric Nicholson ’17 The power of our purpose: Quaker values Earlham was founded by Quakers, and their purpose-driven heritage remains with us to this day through our Principles and Practices. Earlham’s Principles and Practices are the set of values that guide those of us who live, work, teach and learn in this community. They also provide the foundation for campus policies that apply to all members of the community, as well as our governance structure. Today, Earlham’s Principles and Practices include: Respect for persons Integrity Peace and justice Simplicity Community A note on ordering: The order of the principles is not meant to create a hierarchy or to give priority to any one principle. Each is important and they are interconnected. A note on queries: We borrow the use of queries from Quaker tradition. Queries are meant as a means of self-examination or group examination, and inward reflection. Queries remind us that our actions are principled not because they conform to abstract rules, but because they are done thoughtfully and conscientiously. Queries take the shape of questions, but they do not have simple, uniform, unambiguous answers. REVIEWING AND SHAPING OUR PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES Our Principles and Practices are not permanently fixed—we regularly review them as a community in order to ensure they reflect our evolving needs, especially as we relate to the world around us. Our Principles and Practices therefore grow out of two questions that our community continually seeks to answer: What sort of community do we aspire to be? What principles shape and sustain such a community? What sort of community do we aspire to be? Earlham is an educational community, informed by the distinctive perspectives and values of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and aimed at providing the highest quality undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences. We strive to be a community of mutual support, responsibility, and accountability. Our educational values, shaped by Quaker perspectives, are as follows: truth-seeking, wherever the evidence may lead; rigorous intellectual integrity; the nurturing of an open, cooperative learning environment; the recognition of the “teacher within”; the merit of lifelong learning habits. These values are rooted in a commitment to caring for the world we inhabit, improving human society, promoting global education, seeking peaceful and just transformation of conflicts, affirming the equality of all persons, and maintaining high ethical standards of personal conduct. This document speaks of the Earlham community in terms of “we”; however, we recognize that this is not a homogenous “we.” As an educational community, we are a changing group of diverse persons, bringing to this institution a variety of identities, as well as a great range of personal and cultural values, experiences, and perspectives. We are a community that deliberately welcomes persons of all religious faiths, all spiritual convictions, and those who have no religious affiliation or faith. We welcome this diversity, and the strength and transformations it makes possible. What principles shape and sustain such a community? Respect for persons, integrity, a commitment to peace and justice, simplicity, and community decision-making shape Earlham’s community. Together these principles reflect Earlham’s strong Quaker tradition. In acting according to these principles, we try to cultivate a community that values not only the development of broad knowledge and deep competencies, but an active, successful, and joyful engagement in human society and the world around us. These principles inform our community, yet there is variation within the community in the ways these principles are put into practice. We welcome this variety of insight and interpretation and seek to learn from our differences. We acknowledge that practice of these principles may evolve with reflection by individuals and the community as a whole. 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