Letter to Parents
Dear Students, Parents, families and friends,
Welcome to Manhattanville College! Manhattanville, founded in 1841 by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, but with an over 40-year history as an independent and comprehensive institution focused on both undergraduate and graduate learning, is strongly committed to continuing its tradition of preparing students for service and civic engagement in an increasingly diverse and global community.
Our mission remains a vital source of inspiration to our faculty, staff, and students:
The mission of Manhattanville College is to educate ethically and socially responsible leaders for the global community. Manhattanville is com-mitted to fulfilling that mission by:
Ensuring the intellectual, ethical, and social development of each student within a community of engaged scholars and teachers.
Encouraging each student to apply his or her development as an independent leader and creative thinker, to career and personal goals.
Providing a diverse campus community whose members know, care about, and support each other and actively engage the community beyond.
Manhattanville College today sees the liberal arts as a wellspring from which students draw passion, intellectual depth and breadth, and inspiration. We believe the liberal arts allow students to integrate their career aspirations into a strong and flexible educational program. We provide outstanding career development services, beginning in the freshman year, to help students explore options, develop skills, and find internship, service, and study abroad opportunities. Manhattanville's signature Portfolio System helps every student develop a profile of their growth and achievements that they can present to their peers, their faculty, and to the outside world.
Please explore the Manhattanville College catalog to learn about our academic offerings, as well as our policies. Then learn more by exploring our website, www.mville.edu.
With best wishes,
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs