The Mission Statement
 Mission Statement

The Mission Statement

Through its commitment to the truths of Christianity and a biblical worldview, The King’s College seeks to transform society by preparing students for careers in which they help to shape and eventually to lead strategic public and private institutions, and by supporting faculty members as they directly engage culture through writing and speaking publicly on critical issues.

Statement of Purpose of The King’s College

As part of its Institutional Effectiveness Plan, The King’s College has adopted this more detailed statement of purpose:

The King’s College seeks to transform society as it educates students for the long-term goal of leading strategic public and private institutions by providing a foundation in classic social and political theory, Western history, economic analysis, philosophical inquiry, logic, abstract thought, theology, and the disciplines of writing and the spoken word. The College aims to equip students with life-long habits of mind, intellectual skills, and enduring motivations, rather than merely vocational skills or pre-professional training.

We recognize the need to educate students as whole persons with the moral astuteness, intellectual insight, and personal discipline to become autonomous (literally, law-governed) adults. To that end, we aspire to a form of education that integrates classroom instruction, extra-curricular commitments, and service to the larger community.

Even though our program is not in spirit vocational or pre-professional, we recognize that our graduates must be prepared to enter an economy and a society that already exists and cannot be made to order. To that end, we are committed to equipping students with a thorough understanding of the organization of contemporary society and the various professions that influence the “strategic institutions” (government, business, law, the media, civil society, education, the arts, and the church); to give them realistic maps of how careers in these fields typically advance; and to acquaint them with the proximate steps, whether through further education or entry-level positions, that will set them on a course towards longer-term success.

The King's College serves students who seek a rigorous undergraduate education that is rooted in the Christian liberal arts tradition. The College is open to all students, regardless of their religious affiliations.

The College is also committed to supporting faculty members as they provide a rigorous undergraduate education to students and also as they directly engage culture through writing and speaking publicly on critical issues.

Statement of Institutional Goals

Further to its Institutional Effectiveness Plan, The King’s College has adopted this still more detailed statement of our institutional goals:

Education

1. To provide an intellectually coherent education founded on biblical truth and focused on advancing an understanding of politics, philosophy, economics, and business.
2. To show how Christians can and should live in and engage a great American city, and by extension other large urban areas.
3. To demonstrate the breadth and power of intellectual analysis founded on the truths of Christianity and a biblical worldview.
4. To discern the worthy ideals of Western civilization and preserve and defend them against their opponents and against cultural impulses to abandon or trivialize them.
5. To teach the importance of religious, economic, and political freedom in human societies.
6. To advance understanding of how free markets, the rule of law, and popular government can and should work together.
7. To foster inquiry into the great religious, political, philosophical, economic, and literary ideas of Western culture, and to compare them with the products of other cultures.
8. To develop and refine students’ capacity to combine mature intellectual analysis with moral clarity and to help them apply universal principles in analysis of important policy issues.
9. To provoke constructive debate among proponents of differing premises about justice, prosperity, virtue, and truth.
10. To promote effective writing and speaking in the advocacy of important ideas.
11. To cultivate in students the habits of attending to local, national, and international issues through daily attention to serious journalism.
12. To equip students with cultural literacy concerning both past and present.

Students

1. To foster in students an abiding faith in Jesus Christ and a desire to follow Him and advance His kingdom.
2. To move students to develop a deep, theologically grounded moral sense that informs their personal and vocational decisions.
3. To foster the worthy ambitions of students to shape and to lead strategic institutions.
4. To prepare students through internships, part-time employment, career counseling, and student leadership for positions in strategic institutions.
5. To put students in regular contact with older and retired leaders ready to share wisdom about life, careers, and faith.

Faculty

1. To support faculty members as they speak and write on issues in the local and national media.
2. To cultivate a network of contacts in order to increase opportunities for faculty members to influence the general culture and their fields.
3. To provide media training for faculty members.
4. To support faculty research by providing time and other resources, including access to databases and specialists.
5. To support faculty members in developing recognized expertise in their fields.
6. To support and encourage the spiritual growth of faculty members.

Institution Building

1. To build a national admissions system for recruiting qualified students.
2. To build the financial resource base of the College among alumni, foundations, corporations, and individuals interested in furthering the goals of the College.
3. To gain broad public recognition for the College’s distinctive program and achievements.
4. To become known as a center of thoughtful, biblically-based engagement of culture.
5. To become known among evangelicals in New York City as the go-to place for thoughtful analysis of urban life and trends in the city.