Mission and Vision

Vision
The College of Western Idaho provides affordable, quality teaching and learning opportunities for all to excel at learning for life.

Mission: Purpose and Constituent Group
The College of Western Idaho is a public, open-access, and comprehensive community college committed to providing affordable access to quality teaching and learning opportunities to the residents of its service area in western Idaho.

Mission: Core Themes and Measures of Mission Fulfillment

• Professional Technical Education
  • Students who complete professional technical programs are employed in a related field or have transferred to a 4-year college or university.
  • Students who transfer to colleges or universities as juniors will earn a 2.0 GPA or higher at the transfer institution.
  
  
• Lower Division Transfer Education
  • Students who complete the transfer requirements enter a 4-year college or university within 5 years.
  • Students who transfer to colleges or universities as juniors will earn a 2.0 GPA or higher at the transfer institution.
  
  
• Basic Skills Education
  • Students successfully complete an Adult Basic Education course.
  • Students who successfully complete a basic skills course also successfully complete the next course in the sequence or a college-level course in the same discipline.
  
  
• Community Outreach
  • Students who complete workforce development training satisfy their goals for professional development as well as their employers’ expectations.
  • Participants in Community Education offerings and events rate the experience as satisfactorily meeting expectations.
  • Students are provided access to CWI courses/programs at multiple locations, on multiple schedules, and through multiple delivery methods.  
  • The CWI student population reflects the diversity of its service area.

- Approved by the Board of Trustees, December 2009