At our college, we are committed to fostering well-rounded, capable individuals ready to thrive in our interconnected world. Our educational approach is built upon five key institutional learning outcomes that form the foundation of our students' academic and personal growth:
Collaboration is an individual’s capacity to work with others in a process that requires interdependence to solve a problem, achieve a goal, or complete a task. Most modern work environments involve some form of collaboration or connected problem-solving between individuals. Effective collaborators must take responsibility for their participation in the process of achieving a shared goal and require them to demonstrate social interdependence, communication, negotiation, reflection, and task management skills.
Communication represents the essential ability to articulate thoughts and ideas effectively to diverse audiences through a comprehensive array of methods, including oral, written, visual, or other nonverbal forms and contexts in order to achieve a desired outcome. The ability to convey meaning in diverse social and multicultural contexts also requires students to thoughtfully consider their intended audience’s knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions. Students who are proficient in communication can craft clear and compelling messages for a range of purposes using a variety of media and technologies.
Information Literacy empowers students to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, educational and occupational goals. Students will develop the skills to proactively seek out relevant information, critically evaluate its reliability and significance, appropriately apply it, and ethically cite it in order to achieve specific goals. Students must make decisions regarding synthesizing information from a variety of sources and utilize it effectively to make an argument or solve a problem.
Personal and social responsibility entails students cultivating an understanding of making conscientious and sustainable choices in their local and global communities. This requires the capacity to assess one's own values, beliefs, and priorities while simultaneously acknowledging and considering those of others to assess the potential consequences of actions. To achieve this, students will employ critical thinking, inquiry, and actively engage with various perspectives and resources. Through social involvement, coupled with reflection and evaluation, they will enhance their ability to make responsible and sustainable decisions, both in their personal lives and within the broader scope of their community and beyond.
Quantitative reasoning equips students with the critical thinking skills needed to understand and to navigate the data and information saturated world effectively. The ability to comprehend, analyze, and communicate information derived from analysis of quantitative data is an essential skill for addressing complex real-world problems. Mastery of these skills is necessary for students to draw inferences based on quantitative data, formulate arguments, justify conclusions, and apply mathematics to solve problems encountered in various professional and real-world contexts.