The Boyer College of Music and Dance is committed to nurturing talented students through quality programs and to advancing music and dance as art forms, as media for human expression, and as subjects of intellectual inquiry. Recognizing that all the arts possess unique powers---to move the spirit, to excite the mind, to reveal the past, to celebrate the future, to instruct, to heal, to foster communication---the College seeks to advance dance and music in their myriad, interrelated forms through creative and scholarly work, teaching, and service, according to the highest academic and artistic standards of excellence.