• Prepare for a career and for life: You'll learn to ask and answer important questions, form and defend judgments and evaluate diverse views thoughtfully. This is the heart of an Averett education.

• Find mentors to guide you: We keep our classes small so we can teach students well. Your professors will talk to you about life, about jobs and about what it means to be a citizen in this world.

• Learn the value of community: In 21st century workplaces and living spaces we must work and live with people different from ourselves. What better place to learn how to do this than in a university? You'll learn to listen to and consider other people's viewpoints. You'll know how to get along with others despite or even because of their differences.

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