Mission and Goals

The administration, faculty and the Board of Governors regularly review the College’s mission.  The current mission statement was approved in March 2003.

The mission of Siegal College is to promote the study of Judaism by transmitting the best of classical Jewish learning and modern scholarship, preparing Jewish educators and other communal professionals, facilitating the Jewish journey of adult learners, serving as the Jewish higher education resource to the community, and providing a common ground for people of diverse backgrounds.

The goals of the College are to:
•    Provide higher educational opportunities for adult learners, Jewish educators and Jewish communal service workers through degree programs and continuing professional education programs;
•    Offer a high quality of Jewish education to adult learners through continuing education courses open to the community, promote the development of an adult learning community by working cooperatively with the organized Jewish community to strengthen the education of volunteer leaders, and with congregations to strengthen congregational adult education;
•    Expand the opportunities for higher Jewish learning for students enrolled at area colleges and universities, particularly those whose own institutions do not provide the range of courses of study available at the Siegal College;
•    Serve as a cultural resource and a forum for the discussion of contemporary Jewish concerns for the Jewish community, and help those adults who are seeking to understand the meaning of Jewish identity for themselves and their families;
•    Preserve the literary legacy of the Jewish people and disseminate the scholarly contributions of the academic study of Judaism through maintaining a full-service public library serving the Jewish and scholarly communities;
•    Strengthen the field of Jewish education by providing educational services to schools, congregations and the educational institutions of the Jewish community;
•    Prepare young men and women at the secondary level to pursue Judaic studies through establishing a college-preparatory program of supplementary Jewish education.
•    Serve the Cleveland Jewish community and other communities in the North Central region of the United States as the regional center for higher Jewish learning through distance learning and other technologies.
•    Serve the North American Jewish community through the provision of degree and adult learning opportunities through distance learning and other technologies.