Mission Statement

Our mission is to assure the provision of educational, cultural, professional, and vocational services of high quality to all New Yorkers, regardless of age, background, gender, or condition, in order to enable them to achieve their potential and to promote the intellectual, cultural, and economic well-being of the people.

In discharging this mission, we will be guided by the following values:

• Our Clients Are All the People of New York State

  The Regents ultimate clients are all the people of New York State. We will work collaboratively with educational, cultural, professional, vocational, governmental and other institutions and organizations, but always to the end of assuring services of high quality to the people themselves.

• Our Goal Is Results

  Our success in discharging our mission will be measured by the quality of educational, cultural, professional, and vocational services provided and by the positive results of those services for their recipients.

• Our Standard Is Quality

  All of our aims, undertakings, and relationships will be of the highest quality. We will respect and foster respect for the mission, the work, and the people whom we serve.

• Our Promise Is Access for All

  All New Yorkers, regardless of age, background, gender, socioeconomic status, or other condition will have equitable access to the educational, cultural, professional, and vocational services they need to live productive and fulfilling lives.

• Our Watchword Is Integrity

  As holders of the public trust, we will conduct business in a manner above reproach. We will respect and foster respect for the fundamental civic and ethical values of this democracy.

• Our Strength Is Unity in Diversity

  We will respect and foster respect for the geographic, religious, cultural, and ethnic difference of this great State, and we will nurture the ties that make us a single society sharing a common destiny.

• Our Motto Is the State's Motto: "Excelsior"

  We will seek unlimited improvement and never be fully satisfied with the quality we attain in pursuit of our mission. We will seek perennially to raise our own performance and the quality of educational, cultural, professional, and vocational services provided to the people of New York State.

*** Last update 3/14/95 (elj) ***

URL: http://www.nysed.gov/mission.html