General
Program Objectives
Intercultural Competence
Through participation in their on-campus residential communities, students will be encourage and supported to expand their awareness, knowledge, and skills in the following areas:
- Understanding the role that each person’s history, background, and culture play in influencing who they are
- Understanding the role that social & political systems play in determining one’s power and privilege in society
- Increasing their understanding of and appreciation for other backgrounds, lifestyles and cultures
- Recognizing their own stereotypes and prejudices
- Recognizing situations that discriminate against others
- Confidently responding to situations that are insensitive, discriminatory and/or demeaning to others
- Understanding their role in the creation of a just society
- Broadening the diversity of their social group
- Analyzing situations from diverse perspectives
- Appreciating, valuing, welcoming, and celebrating the richness that differences bring into a community
Academic Success
Through participation in their on-campus residential communities, students will be encourage and supported to expand their awareness, knowledge, and skills in the following areas:
- Identifying the conditions that best support their ability to study and learn
- Developing and practicing successful skills and strategies for learning and academic success
- Making increasingly better choices about how they choose to spend their time
- Determining their priorities and matching them with their goals
- Identifying and understanding their individual learning styles and how to use that style to maximize their learning
- Knowing campus resources available to them to assist in improving their learning skills
- Analyzing situations from diverse perspective
- Identifying, connecting and integrating classroom learning with out-of-class experience
- Identifying and accomplishing their learning goals
- Collaborating with others to promote their own and others’ learning
- Taking advantage of the unique and rich learning opportunities that the campus community provides
- Matching their skills and interests with their major and career choices
- Engaging the multiple aspects of one’s self (e.g. psychological, social, emotional, cognitive, etc.) in the learning process
Character Development
Through participation in their on-campus residential communities, students will be encourage and supported to expand their awareness, knowledge, and skills in the following areas:
- Being open to new ideas that challenge their own beliefs
- Clarifying their personal values and beliefs
- Recognizing how individual decisions and actions directly reflect personal values and character
- Recognizing that each person has the ability and responsibility to define their personal values and beliefs
- Reflecting on the consequences of their actions
- Understanding that individual values and beliefs come from one’s culture, background, and experiences
Community Responsibility
Through participation in their on-campus residential communities, students will be encourage and supported to expand their awareness, knowledge, and skills in the following areas:
- Acting respectfully towards others
- Connecting with others who have similar interests
- Connecting with others who have different perspectives, beliefs and backgrounds
- Articulating their beliefs, values and needs
- Balancing personal values, beliefs,, and needs with the values, beliefs, and needs of others in the community
- Resolving differences with others
- Giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Understanding the roles and responsibilities attached to being a citizen within a community
- Respectfully engaging in dialogue with others who hold different values and beliefs
- Appropriately addressing the actions and behaviors of others
- Actively contributing to the definition and development of who they are as a community
- Exploring their leadership skills and ability to lead others
Personal Well-Being
Through participation in their on-campus residential communities, students will be encourage and supported to expand their awareness, knowledge, and skills in the following areas:
- Recognizing how their lifestyle choices affect their health and wellbeing
- Utilizing campus and community resources that promote and assist with health and safety
- Recognizing how stress affects their health and ability to function effectively
- Maintaining a healthy body image
- Making informed choices about alcohol or drug use
- Taking the necessary precautions to assure their personal safety
- Developing positive methods for dealing with stress
- Developing the self-awareness to recognize when they need help from others
- Making healthy and informed decisions about food and exercise
- Making safe and healthy choices about sexual behavior
- Developing and maintaining healthy personal relationships
- Recognizing and making proactive choices about their mental and emotional health
