Roles & Purposes
Foundations Institutions promote student understanding of the various roles and purposes of higher education, both for the individual and society. These roles and purposes include knowledge acquisition for personal growth, learning to prepare for future employment, learning to become engaged citizens, and learning to serve the public good. Institutions encourage first-year students to examine systematically their motivation and goals with regard to higher education in general and to their own college/university. Students are exposed to the value of general education as well as to the value of more focused, in-depth study of a field or fields of knowledge (i.e., the major).
Steering Committee Liaison:
Jennifer Jarvis, Student Development
Dimension Co-Chairs:
Tes Asfaw, Career Development
Dimension Members:
Kathy Cobb, Finance and Administration
Grace Davie, History
Mirian Detres-Hickey, Special Services
Yasemin Jones, Office of the Provost
Giancarlo Mejia, Human Resources
Ann Morgado, General Education
Barbara Simerka, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Rachel Stern, Student
