Simpson College is a selective, church-related, liberal arts college dedicated to excellence in private higher education.

Simpson College is equally committed to:

• an innovative teaching and learning process enabling students of all ages to develop critical intellectual skills;
• nurturing those values which foster personal worth and individuality within a creative, diverse and just community;
• graduating students who will continue as the college's alumni to grow as free, responsible, fulfilled individuals in the world of family, work, service and scholarship;
• those standards of the Judaeo-Christian tradition and the United Methodist Church which guide members of the Simpson College community on issues of personal integrity, moral responsibility, social justice and citizenship.

Approved by the Board of Trustees May 16, 1997