Mission
Brookdale Community College opens doors to education with courage and care, guiding diverse learners toward lifelong growth and success.
Vision
Brookdale transforms lives. We envision a future of educational opportunity for all.
Values
Compassion: We act with empathy and care, understanding that students bring complex lives into the classroom and that success requires more than academic support.
Collaboration: We build trust and work together—across departments, with students, and with our community—knowing that shared effort leads to greater impact.
Creativity: We imagine new possibilities and create flexible, innovative solutions that meet students where they are.
Courage: We face difficult truths, challenge injustice, and make bold choices to remove institutional and societal barriers to student success.
Evergreen Priorities
To ensure that our goals perpetually move us toward achieving our mission and vision, while remaining faithful to our values the College Board of Trustees established the following Evergreen Priorities:
1. Promote Community Success
2. Develop Innovative Educational Pathways
3. Enhance Student Services
4. Optimize Operations
Accordingly, we at Brookdale are committed to (1) proactively address the needs of our diverse community and empower it through access, inclusion, and equity; (2) ensure access to excellent, innovative, and affordable educational options; (3) provide students with the tools that they need to attain their goals; and (4) secure the future of the College’s operations through implementation of preeminent business practices.
Brookdale Philosophy
Brookdale Community College values most, the individual learner. The College respects the differences in needs, strengths, and weaknesses in each person. We respect the right of each individual to strive, to struggle to succeed - the right to be unique.
We further value the experience of learning and count it among the most satisfying of human activities. We believe all education is a life-long activity, which enhances every aspect of human existence. We see that developing career skills and developing individual human potential are equally valuable. Each makes its contribution to the fullness of life.
We recognize the interrelatedness of all learning and the benefit gained by freedom of thought and expression. Effective education promotes awareness of the intricate relationships, which exist among people and between individuals and their environment. The development of individual potential is inevitably related to what society permits, encourages, or maintains.
Therefore, we urge students to accept their responsibility for improving society. Brookdale Community College commits itself to the task of creating an atmosphere, which fosters individual and societal growth and achievement.
The College is dedicated to using the community as a laboratory for learning. College staff and administration work closely with local organizations and agencies when applicable.