Co-Curricular Learning Outcomes

Authentic Engagement is the ability to demonstrate the values, knowledge, and skills to communicate honestly and deeply with others. It means advocating for oneself and working in solidarity with others for the purpose of promoting positive social change.

Courageous Living is a willingness to take risks to develop one's authentic self. It is exploring multiple perspectives and standing up for one's beliefs and values. Living courageously is a practice that one chooses on a daily basis. It means embracing challenges with the outlook that every experience is an opportunity for growth. Courageous living is discovering the inner strength to actualize one's dreams.

The Identities and Communities outcome focuses on the exploration of self in relation to others from similar and differing backgrounds. In this process, students engage with difference, find a community(ies) where they feel like they belong and matter, and develop social empathy as they work alongside community partners as co-learners and co-generators of knowledge.

Benevolent purpose encourages students to reflect on values and beliefs and address the question of vocation: What do I believe? Who am I called to become? The second question depends on insight gained from the first; in other words, the impact one most desires to make ought to flow from one's self-awareness; including one's values and beliefs, gifts and talents, spirituality and faith tradition.

The development of optimal body, mind, and spirit through awareness of the well-being dimensions, skill building, and a personal commitment to lifelong practices that support overall wellness.