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Southern Methodist University is a private research university that creates and shares knowledge through teaching, research, and service. It seeks to prepare students to contribute to their communities and professions while fostering intellectual development, principled thought, and an environment that emphasizes individual dignity and worth.

Manhattan College is a Lasallian Catholic educational institution founded in 1853 by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, a religious teaching order started by Saint John Baptist de La Salle, the patron saint of teachers. Our lush, 22-acre campus in Riverdale offers a safe and secure home base that's within arm's reach of the greatest city in the world - New York. Education at Manhattan College has a strong focus on practical, experiential learning. Opportunities abound when it comes to internships, summer placements and the chance to gain real-world skills in their future workplace. Our connections to the upper echelons of New York City offer invaluable career connections, as well as a backstage pass to this vibrant, magnificent metropolis. The mission of the College is to provide a contemporary, person-centered educational experience that prepares graduates for lives of personal development, professional success, civic engagement, and service to their fellow human beings.

Mystic Seaport's mission is to create a broad, public understanding of the relationship of America and the Sea. In order to accomplish this we: document, preserve, and stimulate scholarship in American maritime history and convey to a wide and diverse public the stories of America and the Sea through the Museum's collections, exhibitions, education programs, library, communications, products, and publications; collect and preserve representative examples of American maritime material culture emphasizing art, commerce, technology and science; collect and preserve examples of significant commercial and recreational watercraft related to America's maritime history, focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; perpetuate skills associated with America's maritime past; and interpret representative elements of life in nineteenth-century New England maritime communities.

Assumption University is a private Catholic liberal‑arts institution sponsored by the Augustinians of the Assumption that prepares students for thoughtful citizenship and meaningful careers by integrating a liberal‑arts education with professional programs and formation in the Catholic intellectual tradition.

Wellesley College is a private, nonprofit liberal-arts college for women that provides an undergraduate education focused on academic excellence, leadership, and public service; the College prepares students for careers and civic engagement through a rigorous curriculum, research opportunities, and a supportive residential community.

The purposes for which the Art Institute of Chicago is formed are: to found, build, maintain, and operate museums, schools, libraries of art, and theaters; to provide support facilities in connection therewith; to conduct appropriate activities conducive to the artistic development of the region; and to conduct and participate in appropriate activities of national and international significance; To form, conserve, research, publish, and exhibit a permanent collection of objects of art of all kinds; to present temporary exhibitions that include loaned objects of art of all kinds; and to cultivate and extend the arts by appropriate means; To establish and conduct comprehensive programs of education, including presentation of visual artists, teachers of art, and designers; to provide educational services in written, spoken, and media formats; To provide lectures, instruction, and entertainment, including dramatic, film, and musical performances of all kinds, which complement and further the general purposes of the institute; To receive in trust property of all kinds and to exercise all necessary powers as trustee for such trust estates whose objects are related to the furtherance of the general purposes of the institute or for the establishment or maintenance of works of art.

The mission of the New World Symphony is to prepare highly-gifted graduates of distinguished music programs for leadership roles in orchestras and ensembles around the world.

Hollins is an independent liberal‑arts university that provides undergraduate liberal‑arts education primarily for women and selected graduate programs, emphasizing academic excellence, creative and literary arts, and student development through small classes and experiential opportunities.

Vanderbilt is a private research university focused on teaching, discovery and public service. It seeks to advance interdisciplinary research and prepare students for leadership while serving the community and pursuing innovation across its academic programs.

Roanoke College develops students as whole persons and prepares them for lives of learning, service, and leadership by supporting their intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and personal growth. The college pursues this through a liberal-arts centered curriculum combined with experiential and career-oriented programs to prepare graduates for meaningful careers and civic leadership.

The Trustees govern and support the University’s work to advance high‑quality education, world‑class research, clinical care, and public service. In practice the institution focuses on teaching and discovery across its schools, delivering patient care through its medical enterprise, and engaging with local and global communities to translate research into impact.

The Mission of the Schoolcraft College Foundation is to support the programs, purposes and initiatives of Schoolcraft College. We do this by securing resources to provide scholarships for students, funds for innovative and emerging initiatives developed by our faculty and staff for the benefit of the campus community, and other initiatives important to meeting the mission of Schoolcraft College.