Learning Outcomes:
University-Wide Programs

Academic Advising

• • Students will be able to explain how to satisfy Hamline graduation requirements.

  • Students will be able to articulate how a Hamline education aligns with their career and life goals.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to track academic progress by running a degree evaluation.

  • Students will be able to make academic decisions with confidence after meeting individually with an Academic Advising advisor.

Academic Success

• • Students will be able to assess their own strengths and weaknesses through self-reflection

  • Students will be able to distinguish between arguments based on emotion and arguments based on fact

  • Students will be able to find and evaluate resources that help frame a significant problem in a discipline or disciplines.

  • Students will begin to identify college resources that assist them in achieving their academic goals.

  • Students will be able to critically analyze a text

  • Students will demonstrate academic engagement through regular attendance and participation in their courses

Athletics

• • Student-athletes will be able to demonstrate healthy habits that contribute to performance and overall well-being.

  • Student-athletes will be able to work collectively with others as a part of a team and larger community

  • Student-athletes will demonstrate academic success and persistence to graduation.

Bush Library

• • A Hamline student will be able to develop a research strategy.

  • A Hamline student will be able to select the appropriate finding tools (databases/indexes) for their research.

  • A Hamline student will be able to effectively use search finding tools(databases/ indexes).

  • A Hamline student will be able to use finding tool features.

  • A Hamline student will be able to retrieve sources from multiple providers.

  • A Hamline student will be able to evaluate the sources they discover.

  • A Hamline student will be able to document the sources they cite in their research.

  • A Hamline student will understand the economic, legal and social issues which surround the creation, use, and ownership/retention of information.

Financial Aid

• • Students and families will be able to identify and apply for financial aid resources to assist with paying for their educational expenses.

  • Students will gain knowledge about their rights, responsibilities, and repayment obligations associated with borrowing student loans.

  • Students with financial aid will be aware of and understand the Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) policy and the option to appeal (if applicable).

Global Engagement

• • Students understand and incorporate the diversity, commonalities, and interdependence of the world’s people, nations, and/or environmental systems into their general knowledge, academic specializations, and worldviews.

  • Students demonstrate effective and appropriate communication, interaction and teamwork with people of different nationalities, cultures, and positionalities, either locally or internationally.

  • Students demonstrate support and a sense of responsibility for promoting the common good of the world community, including its diversity, attention to human rights, concern for the welfare of others, and sustainability of natural systems and species.

Graduate Admission

• • Students will be able to describe how meeting with alumni impacted their desire to attend Hamline.

  • Students will be able to use technology to effectively navigate the application process.

  • Students will be able to complete the application for admission effectively.

Hedgeman Center

• • Students should be able to identify key University resources, services and processes

  • Students should be able to articulate their racial, cultural and or social identity development.

  • Students should be able to identity the many individual and intersecting dimensions of cultural diversity.

  • Students will develop an understanding, demonstrate value and actively engage in diverse communities.

  • Students will be able to identify, articulate and understand individual, institutional and systemic forms of injustice.

Honors

• • Students will be able to attain, achieve, and explain the value of academic excellence.

  • Students will be able to conduct independent and original research and communicate this research to a broader audience.

  • Students will be able to contribute to the communities of which they are a part, by taking leadership and other roles, and working within and across cultural differences, and explain the importance of contributions to these communities.

  • Students will be able to engage independently and reflectively in lifelong learning, and explain the importance of lifelong learning.

  • Students will be able to employ self- and group reflection as a tool that adds to their own understanding of their experiences, and explain the importance of reflection.

  • Students will be able to articulate connections among their liberal arts education, their research experiences, their co- and extra-curricular activities, and their University Honors participation, and the meanings of these connections.

Multicultural & Diversity Initiatives

• • Students, faculty, and staff should be able to demonstrate an understanding of relationships between diversity, inequality, and social, economic, and political power both in the United States and globally.

  • Students, faculty, and staff should  be able to demonstrate knowledge of contributions made by individuals from diverse and/or underrepresented groups to our local, national, and global communities.

  • Students, faculty, and staff should be able to consider perspectives of diverse groups when making decisions.

  • Students, faculty, and staff should be able to demonstrate the ability to express ideas, identify behaviors, and actualize practices that promote social justice and equity.

  • Students, faculty, and staff should be able to articulate ideas and exhibit behaviors that cultivate teamwork, critical thought, and communication skills needed to function in a diverse workforce and global community.

Registration & Records

• • Students will be able to identify the services and locate the information that Registration and Records provides.

  • Students will be able navigate registration processes successfully using Piperline and appropriate registration forms.

  • Students will be able to locate graduation requirements and use the tools available to help them plan and track progress toward their degree.

Student Affairs

• • Students will develop their sense of personal identity.

  • Students will articulate their identity in relation to a larger community.

  • Students will advocate for their needs and appropriately access resources.

  • Students will collaborate effectively as a member of a diverse community.