Pacific Union College embraces diversity as part of its mission and as a prerequisite for a liberal arts education. In its Diversity Statement, Pacific Union College states that it understands diversity to include aspects listed in the WSCUC Statement of Diversity: race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, gender, age, religious belief, sexual orientation and disability. It goes on to state that PUC supports a campus climate of "genuine appreciation, rather than mere tolerance, for community members representing the full range of human diversity."