The Siena School for Liberal Arts is committed to:

Fostering academic excellence
by choosing only highly qualified staff, being guided by the Standards of Good Practice of the Forum on Education Abroad, and accepting students only from select American liberal arts colleges and universities;

Developing social awareness and responsible action
by providing service-learning opportunities and promoting discussion about international differences in approaching social needs;

Encouraging multicultural citizenship and international awareness
by promoting dialogue between students and people from all over the world who live and work in Italy;

Creating an environment for the exchange of ideas
by responding to students’ ideas and inviting international academics and artists to share their expertise and insight with the Siena School, the local community and the University of Siena through lectures, seminars and workshops;

Exploring academia’s commitment to its social context in a multidisciplinary fashion
by creating a curriculum in which our diverse courses are tied together in a stimulating nexus of humanities, social sciences and fine arts;

Building international partnerships between European and American academic institutions
by working on collaborative research projects, initiated by the Siena School with the participation of faculty members from the University of Siena and Florence and from our American counterparts.