Vision:
To be known internationally for our ability to teach young business professionals how to, individually and within teams, achieve incredible results in the marketplace...period.

Mission:
To provide our students with the skills, knowledge, experience, character, and confidence needed to succeed in their business careers.

Commitment:
To provide outstanding support services that exceed the expectations of our students, alumni and business professionals...period.

Values:

• We uphold a high standard of ethics.
• We put people first.
• We promote an atmosphere of camaraderie.
• We honor our long tradition of excellence.
• We encourage diversity within our team and realize that a difference of ideas makes us better people.

Beliefs:

• The Liberal Arts Curriculum
  • The core that makes our graduates strong.
• Recruiting great people
  • The most important factor in our long-term success.
• Developing our current students
  • Is our focus and the most important part of what we do.
• Promote an atmosphere of camaraderie
  • We work to foster a sense of community and a feeling of family.
• Exposure to businesses
  • Is the key element in developing the professional skills of our students.
• Our alumni are our most important resource
  • We want them to be a part of us, be proud of us, and be supported by us.

Guiding Principles:

• We will be selective in the types of students recruited by the Gerstacker Institute using class rank, G.P.A., test scores, and personal attitude as primary entrance standards.
• Our focus is to develop students in business disciplines and the welfare of our students is our top priority.
• We will embrace a process of continuous improvement.
• Our alumni will always be our most important resource.
• We will always keep the goals of the Gerstacker Institute in perspective with the vision and policies of Albion College.