The Pacific West Center for Regional Humanities is dedicated to a vision wherein the wisdom, experience, and values of its many people and cultures create a regional inheritance that may be broadly shared and enjoyed through lifelong learning across its diverse population. The Center will foster and nurture all the humanities in a regional context, including the symbolic and physical environment. It will create opportunities for linking humanities scholars who work in a regional context with other individuals and organizations, in order to promote research on regional topics, to document and preserve regional history and heritage, to provide access to cultural resources, to develop K-12, undergraduate and master's level educational programs with partner institutions, to design public programs, and to foster the resources for cultural heritage tourism. The Center will be a hub of ideas and resources from which citizens can "place" themselves in their communities and as a result will also provide points of comparison between regions and with the wider world.

The Pacific West Center is dedicated to understanding and interpreting the cultures, history, and expressions of the diverse peoples of the Pacific West region (Alaska, American Samoa, California, Guam, Washington, Hawai'i, the Northern Marianas, Oregon, and Washington) and the region's interaction with the world. The inclusion of all peoples, cultures, histories, and areas of interests as they relate to the humanities of the Pacific West region will be the driving force for the development of the Pacific West Center.

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