HCC Vision Statement

Hutchinson Community College/Area Vocational School will be the premier, two-year educational institution in Kansas, delivering accessible opportunities for learning, growth and improved quality of life.

HCC Mission Statement

Expanding the tradition of excellence through learning and collaboration.

HCC Values

• Focus – HCC’s mission and vision strives to meet the expectations of students and stakeholders; we regularly gather their perspectives to continuously improve our ability to meet their needs.
• Involvement – HCC strives for broad-based participation, drawing upon the expertise of persons closest to the situations.
• Leadership – The leadership at HCC supports a quality-driven culture and models those values and behaviors so that all stakeholders understand and value the institution’s mission and direction.
• Learning – HCC is dedicated to developing everyone’s potential talents and rigorously evaluating achievements to systematically strengthen our institution.
• People – HCC supports the systematic development of all individuals.
• Collaboration – HCC encourages active collaboration among and within departments and between the institution and other institutions and organizations.
• Agility – HCC values flexibility to respond quickly to opportunities and challenges and the ability to allocate necessary resources, fiscal, human and physical, to meet those opportunities and challenges.
• Foresight – HCC is future-focused, examining trends to better predict how conditions will change and anticipating how those changes may affect our students, other stakeholders, and our mission.
• Information – HCC seeks and uses data and objective information to assess our current capacities and set appropriate targets and to measure our performance realistically.
• Integrity – HCC recognizes and seeks to fulfill our public obligation to demonstrate responsible institutional citizenship by treating people and organizations with equity, dignity, and respect.