The University of Maine at Fort Kent will be a leading small public university in student success through quality academic programs and our hallmark experiential learning, which build upon our unique rural, environmental, and Franco-American cultural heritage.

We are therefore committed to:

• Holistic development of students through active engagement in scholarly and co-curricular activities designed to support success of academic, personal, and social goals
• Affordable and accessible education
• High quality education by making academic excellence pervasive through strong liberal-arts based education, high impact teaching and learning strategies, and program accreditation
• Core and signature programs that transform students for ethical lives, productive careers, and responsible citizenship within a changing global community
• Expansion of educational programs through innovative technology and distance learning
• Academics centered around a hallmark of experiential learning incorporated in each program that builds upon our distinguishing characteristics of culture, rural environment, and international location as the foundation of a broad-based educational experience
• A sense of community through personalized faculty-to-student interactions and a small student-to-faculty ratio
• Development of a distinctly rural-based identity and sustainable practices through realization of the Center for Rural Sustainable Development mission
• Transformational learning through interactive study and immersion in Northern Maine's pristine natural environment, historic community, and great outdoor sports and recreation
• Promoting our distinctive identity as the cultural and intellectual center of northern Maine
• Actively engaging in the revitalization of the unique Acadian and Franco-American heritage, culture, and language of the St. John Valley through the realization of the Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes mission
• Preparing successful students via quality of place, people, and education, thereby providing students with quality of life and work