• establish learning how to learn as the foundation for sound educational practice;
   
• develop advanced reading and writing skills, based on an understanding of language whereby we critically examine the ways in which narratives and metaphors are tools of power which shape our sense of who we are and how we make sense of the world;

• reject exclusivist definitions and descriptions of the human and of social categories such as race, class, gender and ability in favour of a critical engagement with lived realities, whilst expressing solidarity with all those who find themselves marginalised or oppressed;
   
• become conversant with how the modern world is built upon and continues to be politically and imaginatively shaped by imperialism, starting with European colonialism, and the liberation of individuals and societies is impossible without first decolonising the mind;
   
• become conversant with how the modern world is built upon and continues to be politically and imaginatively shaped by capitalism, most recently neoliberalism, and the liberation of individuals and societies is impossible without a worldwide socialist revolution;
   
• acknowledge and act upon the understanding that anthropogenic climate change poses an imminent existential threat to Homo sapiens, but that such a threat can only be defeated by a radical and rapid grassroots restructuring of all of human societies;
   
• recognize that all forms of social injustice are multidimensional, such that Islamophobia, racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, ableism, and neurelitism are discursive, performative, structural, and historical, as well as being mutually co-constitutive;
   
• believe communities and societies governed by non-violent socialist principles and democratic participatory decision making are together likely to prove the most effective and compassionate means of establishing and maintaining a just and peaceful world;
   
• engage in revolutionary non-violent direct action, such as strikes, marches, community education, lobbying, blogging, civil disobedience, boycotts and culture jamming, to defend individuals and communities from social, political, economic, and environmental injustice;
   
• affirm creativity, including creative writing (including poetry, prose, and drama), as something that is of value in itself and as a vital tool for effecting both personal and political change, whilst pursuing the college principles outlined herein;
   
• facilitate a peaceful and equitable campus culture such that everyone feels safe.

 © Fortitude J B Huddlebeck 2021