Vision:
ASEC serves to make available to Ateneans opportunities for student exchange through social interaction and opportunities of going abroad in order to promote and foster national identity, cultural awareness, and global understanding.
Mission:
ASEC aims to provide Ateneans, other Filipinos and foreign students, an avenue of understanding in order to deepen national identity. It also seeks to expose them to a different environment through social interaction. By doing so, ASEC advocates open-mindedness and open communication, thus leading to better global understanding.
Objectives:
1. To make available to the members of the organization and to the rest of the Ateneo community opportunities for studying abroad.
2. To offer assistance and support to outbound and inbound Ateneo student exchange.
3. To establish new relations and strengthen existing ties with organizations and universities both local and abroad.
4. To strengthen unity among students in the organization.
5. To promote cultural-rootedness through social interaction.
6. To promote the richness and diversity of the Philippine culture to foreign students, guests, and delegates.
7. To promote Ateneo through ASEC’s various inter- and intra-cultural activities.
8. To inculcate social responsibility to its members thus nurturing the Ignatian spirituality.