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Campus Life to streamline for 'more thoughtful, intentional' programming
By: Amy Ledig, News Editor
Issue date: 2/15/08 Section: News
The Department of Campus Life is in the early stages of generating a plan that would provide overarching guidelines for events and encouraged conversations and also result in more cohesive offerings. While Campus Life staff says that there won't be a noticeable difference in offered events, Residential Assistants will have increased direction as Campus Life tries to target programming at students during various stages of their four years at the college.
Director of Campus Life Keith Edwards said that the department wants "to provide more thoughtful, intentional and purposeful educational opportunities for students beyond the classroom."
Campus Life will implement the plan with the incoming class of 2012, beginning with its orientation in the fall. The plan was drafted over J-term and will now be considered by a review board of three to four faculty and staff members, while Campus Life continues to tweak the plan. Edwards said he hopes to have the details settled by April, in order to begin preparing for orientation.
Residental Life and Campus Programs staffs, which together make up Campus Life, are working to generate the plan. Based off of the college's core values, the department wants to ensure that "students will understand their individual responsibility to work towards just and equitable local, national and global societies," according to the College Life Education Plan.
In order to accomplish this, this educational priority will be broken down into seven "learning outcomes."
According the plan, each student will understand "the multiple dimensions of individual and social group identities," "the powerful roles and responsibilities of an individual in a community," "how to build and sustain relationships," "how to communicate across difference," "how privilege and oppression exist and function in societies," "the responsibility of citizens to work towards more just and equitable societies" and "how to be an actively engaged citizen of local, national and global societies."
Director of Campus Life Keith Edwards said that the department wants "to provide more thoughtful, intentional and purposeful educational opportunities for students beyond the classroom."
Campus Life will implement the plan with the incoming class of 2012, beginning with its orientation in the fall. The plan was drafted over J-term and will now be considered by a review board of three to four faculty and staff members, while Campus Life continues to tweak the plan. Edwards said he hopes to have the details settled by April, in order to begin preparing for orientation.
Residental Life and Campus Programs staffs, which together make up Campus Life, are working to generate the plan. Based off of the college's core values, the department wants to ensure that "students will understand their individual responsibility to work towards just and equitable local, national and global societies," according to the College Life Education Plan.
In order to accomplish this, this educational priority will be broken down into seven "learning outcomes."
According the plan, each student will understand "the multiple dimensions of individual and social group identities," "the powerful roles and responsibilities of an individual in a community," "how to build and sustain relationships," "how to communicate across difference," "how privilege and oppression exist and function in societies," "the responsibility of citizens to work towards more just and equitable societies" and "how to be an actively engaged citizen of local, national and global societies."
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