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Using Co-curricular Activities to Develop Civil and Ethical Behavior Among Students. Steve Veldkamp Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Student Life and Learning. Interactive Gen Ed Goals What can we Celebrate What can we Create IU Culture of Care and Civility. GOALS.
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Using Co-curricular Activities to Develop Civil and Ethical Behavior Among Students Steve Veldkamp Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Student Life and Learning
Interactive • Gen Ed Goals • What can we Celebrate • What can we Create • IU Culture of Care and Civility GOALS
What does college do? DISCUSS
Funding of higher education is drastically changing • Public outcry for accountability and transparency • Global leadership is at stake • Essential learning outcomes have been defined Higher education is at a pivotal point in its history.”
What does a co-curricular culture dedicated to civic engagement and ethical leadership look like? DISCUSS
Critical Thinking • Integrative Learning • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Intercultural Competency • Ethical Reasoning • Civic Engagement • Life Long-Learning • AAC&U Essential Learning Outcomes 2007 GEN EDS
A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future calls for investing on a massive scale in higher education’s capacity to renew this nation’s social, intellectual, and civic capital. LEARNING
A society that is racially and ethnically diverse requires, more than other societies, a conscious effort of build shared values and ideas among its citizenry” (Ravitch 2000). • How do we engineer campus culture? • Macro designs? • Micro thinking? Culture of Care and Civility
Association of American Colleges and Universities (2012). A national call to action. A crucible moment, College learning and Democracy’s Future, The National taskforce on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement.Washington: D.C. • Association of American Colleges and Universities (2007). College learning for the new global century: a report from the national leadership council for liberal education &America’s promise. Washington: D.C. • Bichelmeyer, B. A. & Hanson, Russell L. (2009). Indiana University Bloomington general education curriculum: A white paper to guide monitoring activities for the general education program at Indiana University Bloomington. • Our good judgment and prerogative as educators References