Standing in the long tradition of the liberal arts, St. Olaf expects that liberal education involves the cultivation of virtues (intellectual and otherwise) in community and for community. In short, we expect liberally educated persons to be of service to society….We expect that liberal education will cause students to think about vocation comprehensively - to consider the meaning and purpose of work, but also the meaning and purpose of family, of neighborhood, of citizenship, of leisure, and of global and ecological responsibility.
Building "green" reflects a desire to be deliberate and informed about the impact the new science complex will have on human and nonhuman communities on the Hill and beyond. At St. Olaf, we will be green through a planning, construction, and operations strategy that seeks to simultaneously maximize, minimize, and mitigate.