Department Goals
To fulfill our Mission, we must accomplish the following Goals:
- Provide a relevant, hands-on, student-centered marine environmental science curriculum that prepares students to analyze current environmental issues with contemporary technology. Additionally, we serve the mission of Maritime College through engaging courses that impart mathematical and scientific knowledge to all students. These courses to all Maritime students serve as a basis for success in upper-level courses in their majors, while also imparting analytical skills to General Education students that they will need to engage meaningfully with scientific issues in their careers and communities.
- Recognize research and teaching as mutually reinforcing so we strive to advance the bounds of knowledge in mathematics and science through scholarly work by students and professors. To that end, we seek to provide undergraduate students with meaningful, relevant, and original research opportunities both at Maritime and beyond.
- Work together in a welcoming, inclusive, and equitable environment for all our students, staff, and faculty. We recognize that knowledge is best generated, disseminated, and taught when people of diverse backgrounds and experiences engage with each other in a mutually respectful way. We value a multiplicity of identities because we recognize the intrinsic dignity of every person, and because we know that our learning community is enhanced by our differences and strengthened by our shared quest for knowledge.