The college subscribes to the Penn State Values in addition to our college values listed below.
INTEGRITY: We act with integrity and honesty in accordance with the highest academic, professional, and ethical standards.
RESPECT: We respect and honor the dignity of each person, embrace civil discourse, and foster a diverse and inclusive community.
RESPONSIBILITY: We act responsibly, and we are accountable for our decisions, actions, and their consequences.
DISCOVERY: We seek and create new knowledge and understanding, and foster creativity and innovation, for the benefit of our communities, society, and the environment.
EXCELLENCE: We strive for excellence in all our endeavors as individuals, an institution, and a leader in higher education.
COMMUNITY: We work together for the betterment of our University, the communities we serve, and the world.
SAFETY AND WELLBEING: We strive to be University leaders in safety in all settings, including workplace, lab, fieldwork, and classroom striving to ensure the wellbeing of our faculty, staff and students.
INCLUSIVITY: We prioritize fostering a diverse and equitable community in which each member knows that they belong here and is inspired to succeed.
SUSTAINABILITY: We strive to model sustainability practices in all aspects of EMS, including our daily operations, and we embrace the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a context for the salience of our mission.
LEADERSHIP: We strive to be recognized as ethical, unbiased, honest, credible, and collaborative leaders in all aspects of discovery, application, and dissemination of knowledge through our research, education, outreach, service, and daily operations.
AGILITY: We advance our longstanding tradition of relevance and bolster our resilience by effectively anticipating and adapting to change in the disciplines we encompass, in the needs of our stakeholders and partners, and in the societal challenges we address.
