Assessment / Goals

The annual theme and common read support the college’s strategic goals and learning outcomes by striving to achieve the following objectives:

• Enhance student engagement
• Improve student retention, particularly of first-year students 
• Help students make the transition to college
• Demonstrate for new students the value of different viewpoints
• Participate in collaborative learning
• Develop reflective capacities and critical thinking skills
• Give upper-class students leadership and mentoring opportunities
• Make connections across disciplines
• Increase the sense of campus community
• Create exciting experiential learning opportunities
• Highlight the college’s unique location through distinctive programming