Learning
"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
- Martina Horner
(President, Radcliffe College)
We value... an emphasis on learning.
Learning is acquired wisdom, knowledge, or skills; to learn is to gain comprehension or mastery through study or experience. Examples of learning in action include:
- Support of and resources for professional development on and off the campus
- Emphasis of our roles as educators in the total development of students
- Development of learning contracts for student and graduate staff
- Intentional training and orientation programs for new staff
e-Value8 your alignment...
As An Individual
- What have I done recently that demonstrates this value is important to me?
- What have I done inadvertently to demonstrate this value is not important to me?
- What do I need to do to more fully demonstrate this value?
- What responsibility have I taken for my own learning?
- How do I personally emphasize my role as an educator? What more can I do in my job to contribute to student development and learning.
As a Department
- How does our department communicate the educational and developmental nature of its programs and services? What more can the department do?
- In what ways does our department recognize, and reward learning? What are additional ways in which this value could be advanced?
- What general and specific learning outcomes are at the core of our department? How do we measure our effectiveness in achieving these outcomes?
- What evidence do we have of support and resources for professional development? What more can the department do to help individuals develop as persons and professionals?
