Apr 14, 2026  
Course Catalog 2025-2026 
  
Course Catalog 2025-2026

Mission, Vision, and Philosophy of Education


Our Mission

Palo Verde College provides opportunities for personal and professional growth to a unique community of learners in an academic environment committed to student success, diversity, equity, and inclusion by supporting student achievement of basic skills, certificate, degree, university transfer, and career goals.

Our Vision

Palo Verde College will be known for excellence educationally, socially, economically and culturally.

Our Philosophy of Education

The awarding of an Associate degree is intended to represent more than an accumulation of units. It is to symbolize a successful attempt on the part of the college to lead students through patterns of learning experiences designed to develop certain capabilities and insights. Among these are the ability to think and to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing. To use mathematics, to understand the modes of inquiry of the major disciplines to be aware of other cultures and times to achieve insights gained through experience in thinking about ethical problems, and to develop the capacity for self-understanding.