Vision

We at Effaa value and foster superior levels of educational participation and academic success among all students. Reaching out to and including all populations, we strive to provide an affordable and unparalleled learning experience in a supportive and caring environment that leads students to successfully complete their goals.

To be a national leader in transforming lives through an innovative, rigorous, industry oriented, compassionate approach to education.

We achieve this by:

• Continually striving to strengthen and improve the positive impact we have on our students and community: transforming their lives, as well as our own, through our work
  
• Becoming a nationally know organisation that "makes a difference"
  
• Continually striving to innovate – finding new and more effective ways to educate and serve students
  
• Sustaining rigour in our work – holding high standards and expectations for both our students and for ourselves
  
• Appproaching our work with compassion – acknowledging the whole person, working with integrity and caring, accepting people where they are and moving them forward without sacrificing standards or expectations, bringing joy, honesty and understanding to our work.
  

A Teaching and Learning Community

Our principal distinction will be the high quality of instruction. The educational experience will feature successful learning in areas as varied as basic skills, academic courses, advanced honors, career and technical courses, retooling of job skills and preparation for transfer to other educational institutions. Learning opportunities will extend to a broad array of courses and programs to offer any student a pathway to educational and career success.

An Inclusive Community

We will continue to reach out to all people, especially to those communities that encounter barriers to education; develop sustainable campuses and sites to better serve students and neighborhoods; diversify and improve programs and services for the benefit of the community; build partnerships with public, private and community-based agencies to better respond to educational, economic, environmental, and societal needs; foster the participation of our students and employees in community life; and welcome students from around the world. Committed to lifelong educational opportunities for all, we will exchange expertise and innovation with colleagues in the state, the nation and the world.

A Diverse Community

In our community respect and trust are common virtues and all people are enriched by diversity and multicultural understanding. We will maintain a supportive, positive and productive working environment for our diverse faculty and staff, as well as a responsive environment in which student needs are met in a friendly, timely and caring manner.