Strategic Mission of The Delaplaine School of Business

The mission of the Delaplaine School of Business at Hood College is to provide a high-quality education in business and economics to future leaders of industry, government, and civil society.

At the heart of our education is a commitment to academic excellence, lifelong learning, meaningful extra-curricular and co-curricular experiences, and the preparation of students for lives of responsibility, leadership, and service. To achieve this, we have the following strategic priorities:

1. To provide a curriculum that emphasizes the core competencies in the disciplines of business management and economics.
2. To offer select specialization opportunities that are relevant and timely through our various concentrations and focus areas.
3. To ensure that our students have integrative and critical thinking skills as well as quantitative and qualitative abilities to analyze complex economic, social, global, technological, and organizational problems.
4. To ascertain that our students have the necessary interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills to be productive citizens, leaders, and managers.
5. To create a collaborative teaching, learning, and research environment that emphasizes economic, social, and environmental sustainability, ethical decision-making, and a global perspective.
6. To create a community of teacher-scholars and students who are deeply engaged in real-world problem-solving.
7. To foster town-gown relations through effective partnerships with industry and governmental organizations.