Vision:
The University Center aspires to be recognized throughout the region as a leader in transforming lives, developing talent, and creating success through innovative and responsive approaches to higher education - emphasizing accessibility, flexibility and choice.

Core Values:
Services and programs offered by the University Center are measured by their impact on students, as well as on the communities, businesses and industries of the Lake County region. Success includes providing access to opportunities for intellectual growth, professional development, and continuous learning.

To achieve our academic commitments, the University Center strives to provide students of higher education programs with:

-- Opportunities for effective and efficient transfer from prior institutions to a University Center member institution.

-- An educational philosophy of continuous and life-long learning in constantly changing environments;

-- Faculty committed to high academic quality;

-- Services and staff responsive to the array of place bound learners and their needs for access, flexibility, and convenience;

-- Innovative uses of technology to enhance the learning experience, to enable remote participation and collaboration, and to capture content for e-learning opportunities;

-- Facilitated inter-institutional cooperation for program planning and delivery;

-- A diverse range of academic programs; and

-- Access to both public and private higher education.

To achieve our commitments to members of the Lake County community who are not seeking degree programs or academic credit, the University Center endeavors to provide:

-- State of the art facilities for business meetings, workshops, training and conferences;

-- Meeting support services to remove logistical barriers to successful knowledge-sharing activities;

-- Learning programs to support the continuing education needs of Lake County workers across a variety of industries; and

-- Programs and services to enhance networking and business partnership development among Lake County employers and workers.

Mission:
The University Center, a consortium-based center, provides high quality educational opportunities for the residents, workers, and employers of the Lake County region.