About
Elizabethtown college provides a transformative educational experience that cultivates personal strengths and develops a passion for lifelong learning and purposeful work. Elizabethtown college combines the most sought-after professional programs, guaranteed high-impact experiences like research, internships, and cross-cultural study, with a 125 year tradition of learning to think critically, analyze deeply, and communicate effectively. Etown offers an essential education that makes 98% of our graduates agree they have what it takes to be successful. Our mission is to educate for service, grounded in the belief that learning is most noble when used to benefit others, regardless of career path. We prepare our students to lead purposeful and meaningful lives while fostering independent thought, personal integrity, and social responsibilityfoundations for a lifetime of learning. We uphold the values of peace, NON-violence, human dignity, and social justice. Our transformative educational experience cultivates personal strengths and inspires a passion for lifelong learning and purposeful work. The impact of an elizabethtown college education is long-lasting and far-reaching because it is deeply transformative. Students acquire new habits of mind and heartsome in the course of the undergraduate experience, others as students grow beyond college. Our educational experience blends a high standard of scholarship with four signature attributes, which include commitments to educate our students in a relationship-centered learning community, to foster in our students international and cross-cultural perspectives, to complement classroom instruction with experiential-learning opportunities, and to prepare our students for purposeful lives and meaningful work. Our educational programs engage students in ways that capture their most profound attention, confront them with learning experiences that are compelling, and CALL out from them responses that reach beyond what even they thought possible. In this learning community, our faculty members and other employees demonstrate their passion for their subjects and for continued learning so that our students see how compelling DEEP engagement is. Students receive personal attention, as ALL employees commit to expressing sincere and genuine interest in the educational success of our students. Our college's classes deliberately are kept small to support our students' individual needs and challenge them to grow. Elizabethtown offers a globalized curriculum and CO-curriculum. Programs of study and development help students understand and effectively engage with other cultures and the globalization of life and work. Our staff includes faculty members and other employees who are citizens of countries from around the world, who speak a multitude of languages, and who have had myriad study and residential experiences on other continents. Students study alongside students from other cultures. Additionally, they encounter our international world when they visit, study in or live in cities as diverse as harrisburg, philadelphia, london, beijing and quito. Elizabethtown seeks to broaden the contexts for student learning by fostering educational experiences through which students learn by doing. Through this experiential learning, students develop the aptitude to link theory and experience, and they are better prepared to continue learning throughout their lifetime. These opportunities are available through internships and externships, field placement assignments, independent and collaborative research projects, service-learning and civic engagement, leadership development and campus enjoyment. In both the curriculum and cocurricular, the college's educational program fosters an understanding of education for a life of purpose based on a holistic model of student development that integrates career development; reflection on vocation, meaning and life; and a commitment to civic engagement. As a result, graduates of elizabethtown are prepared to make the world a better place. They do so, in part, by living in ways that reflect their individual commitments, respond to the needs of others, and value personal and ethical integrity.
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