College Mission Statement

Kingsborough Community College of The City University of New York is a comprehensive community college providing both liberal arts and career education. It is dedicated to promoting student learning and development as well as strengthening and serving its diverse community. To these ends, we strive to fulfill the following goals:

• To offer a superior general education to all degree students
• To provide programs of study for those intending to transfer and those seeking immediate employment
• To promote critical reading, writing, and thinking
• To develop student competence in information literacy, oral communication, quantitative skills, and technological literacy
• To promote civic engagement, global awareness, civility, and respect for diversity
• To provide life-long learning opportunities in credit and non-credit programs for the non-traditional as well as the traditional student
• To provide comprehensive services that address student needs in order to support academic success
• To respond to the educational, social, cultural, and economic needs of the communities we serve