Goals

The institute provides practical guidance, mentoring, and resources to help campus teams

• develop and align institutional strategies that support applied learning and dialogue across departments, programs, and units;
• identify pedagogical approaches that connect learning across courses, cocurricular experiences, and the broader student experience;
• design collaborative and reflective learning experiences that prepare students for civic participation and careers in local, national, and global contexts;
• create assignments, courses, activities, and programs that engage students in problem-based, experiential, dialogue-centered, civic, and global learning across general education and the majors;
• advance intentional and sustained dialogue initiatives within curricular, cocurricular, and career-readiness efforts;
• develop integrative assessment strategies that examine students’ skills, knowledge, and dispositions related to applied learning and dialogue; and
• produce a focused action plan to guide institutional implementation and scaling.