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Prepare Students for Diversity
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Prepare students for exposure to issues of diversity by giving incoming students the tools, resources, and support needed to adapt, understand, appreciate, and accept others. Additional explanation: Examples would include a multicultural experience as part of incoming student orientation to introduce and address issues related to […]
Learning and Living Funding
Recommendation from the Academic Programs and New Initiatives Task Force: Provide the resources needed to support the Learning/Living initiative. Additional explanation: Learning/Living communities link a theme with living space on campus. To augment current non-curricular offerings would require staff to develop a new structure and program. Ideally, residence halls could be renovated or built with […]
Intellectual Diversity and Civil Discourse Speakers
Recommendation from the Community Engagement Task Force: Develop a speaker series to support intellectual diversity and civil discourse. Additional explanation: This may be accomplished by providing a variety of public speakers representing different viewpoints or having nationally known opponents and proponents on major public policy issues attend a moderated discussion on campus. This speaker series […]
Servant Leadership
Recommendation from the Faith Task Force: Weave the philosophy and practice of servant leadership into the ethos of Gustavus so that it becomes the regional center for servant leadership among colleges and universities. Additional explanation: This builds upon the College’s history of developing church leaders and a broader practice of developing servant leaders. A planning […]
Student-Study Spaces to Meet Needs
Recommendation from the Student Life Task Force: Create or maintain student study spaces across the entire campus (e.g. academic buildings, library, residence halls) to meet the needs for individual and group study as well as the flexibility to adapt to changes in technology. This recommendation was placed in the Tangible Resources Strategic Framework Substantive Category […]
Sophomore Student Communities
Recommendation from the Interdisciplinary Programs Task Force: Develop communities for sophomore students to focus on combining growing disciplinary demands as students move towards declaring a major with continuing commitment to “trans-disciplinary” problems of broad social importance. This recommendation was placed in the Personal Growth and Development Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language: Develop a […]
Common Space for Center for International and Cultural Education and Diversity Center
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Maximize natural synergies between the Center for International and Cultural Education and the Diversity Center by creating a common office space. Additional explanation: The entities would retain their respective directors and full staffs, but programmatic synergy and administrative efficiency would be enhanced. This recommendation was placed […]
Leadership Students Program
Recommendation from the Student Life Task Force: Develop a robust academic program of leadership studies within the next three years. Additional explanation: Such a program should include: course development, student-faculty research, study abroad, and internships. Also included in this recommendation is the need to acquire scholarly material in the library and academic departments to advance […]
Learning and Living Communities and First-Term Seminars
Recommendation from the Interdisciplinary Programs Task Force: Pilot Learning and Living Communities built around a set of First-Term Seminars with common or closely-related syllabi and students housed in the same residence hall starting in 2010-2011. This recommendation was placed in the Quality-Enhancing and Innovative Initiatives Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language: Implement a structure […]
Education for First Year Students on High Risk Behaviors
Recommendation from the Student Life Task Force: Implement an education program for incoming first-year students and parents focusing on substance abuse and high risk behaviors. Additional explanation: This program should involve pre-orientation reading as well as a “curriculum” for campus conversations facilitated by peer leaders. This recommendation was placed in the Personal Growth and Development […]