Claremont McKenna College's mission is to prepare students for thoughtful and productive lives and responsible leadership in business, government, and the professions. The College pursues this mission by providing a liberal arts education that emphasizes economics and political science; promotes faculty and student scholarship that contributes to intellectual vitality and an understanding of public policy issues; supports a professoriate that is dedicated to effective undergraduate teaching; reinforces a close student-teacher relationship that fosters critical inquiry; sustains an active residential and intellectual environment; sponsors scholarly support for a faculty of teacher-scholars; and champions freedom of expression, viewpoint diversity, and constructive dialogue, as well as institutional neutrality, through The Open Academy.