You Should Know
The College is changing in many ways, inside as well as out. View our Strategic Plan Overview, photos of campus building projects, a map of the campus in the future, and more on the "Future of the College: Plotting a Course to 2011".
Upcoming Events & Visit Opportunities
- Alumni Association Board of Directors Meeting 9/27/2010
- “Francis and Ecological Science in Dialogue?” 10/2/2010
- Francis Fest Bake Sale 10/2/2010
- Francis Fest Bingo 10/2/2010
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Vision & Diversity
Diversity Statement
Silver Lake College believes diversity is integral to the educational and developmental experience of all learners. As a college community, we strive to be inclusive recognizing and valuing opportunities to integrate dimensions of diversity in broadening our interpretation and understanding of humanity. We respect and uphold the many facets of human identity in helping support and strengthen our college mission, vision and values.
Vision Statement
Silver Lake College, sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, is a community of life-long learners founded on the Catholic tradition.
The College community fosters an environment modeled on the ideals of Francis and Clare of Assisi, whose Gospel living and profound sense of faith illumine the entire world. Their wisdom nurtured in a climate of simplicity and poverty, joy and gratitude, finds expression in a Christian sense of community, compassion, peacemaking, and reverence for all creation.
In this Franciscan environment Silver Lake College offers students a share in the Christian cultural heritage of a liberal arts education. A foundation in the liberal arts provides avenues to search for truth, beauty, goodness, and meaning in life and to promote holistic development in order to empower students to actualize their God-given potential.
Silver Lake College assumes the responsibility to educate persons for Christian leadership and service. It provides graduate and undergraduate programs that afford students the opportunity to pursue their professions and challenge them to exercise responsible stewardship in the world.
Within the climate of its heritage, the Silver Lake College community strives to impact the formation and transformation of our world into a civilization of love by creating a faith environment, nurturing the insights into life gained in the liberal arts, and engendering a commitment of service to others.