Student Life

Student Learning Outcomes by Department

Student Health Center

1. Demonstrate an increased understanding of medical information, including one's own medical diagnosis and treatment plan.
2. Practice risk reduction and prevention behaviors.
3. Demonstrate caring for others, understanding the importance of public health concerns and the value of serving others from diverse backgrounds.
4. Integrate a Christian worldview of physical health principles in understanding and maintaining wellness.

Student Employment

1. Demonstrate essential job skills, such as punctuality, dependability and personal responsibility in practical application across diverse settings.
2. Foster vocation and career exploration and development, addressing skills and tools required in possible career paths of interest.
3. Practice time management skills and life balance between school, work and social life.
4. Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with others, including those with different backgrounds or points of view.

Student-Led Ministries

1. Demonstrate leadership skills in guiding and assisting a ministry in meeting its goals, and communicate a vision that encourages action in others.
2. Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how practicing the spiritual disciplines (e.g., Bible study, prayer, silence), deepens and strengthens one's faith.
3. Develop and articulate an increasing awareness, interest, and/or faith in Christ.
4. Demonstrate an understanding that ministry and service to others, including those different from oneself, is a natural outpouring of a life of faith in Christ.

Campus Recreation

1. Practice healthy behavior in community with a diverse group of people, realizing the exercise benefits in cognitive, physical, social and spiritual domains.
2. Understand the importance of team play, teamwork, and healthy social interactions in sports competition and beyond.
3. Make purposeful decisions regarding the balance of education, work, and leisure time.
4. Integrate faith with recreational activities through community and outdoor experiences that show an appreciation of the body and nature as God's creation.

Student Activities

1. Demonstrate leadership in guiding and assisting a student organization in meeting its goals; communicate a vision or mission that encourages commitment, action in others, and grow in a personal understanding of a Christian worldview.
2. Show social competencies by communicating and working interdependently with a diverse population.
3. Make purposeful decisions regarding balance among education, work, and leisure time.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of values and God-given gifts and skills to create a sense of belonging and community, thereby enhancing traditions and loyalties.

Volunteer Center

1. Articulate and recognize issues of equity.
2. Engage in meaningful and repetitive action in local communities.
3. Understand the value and diversity of communities and cultures as a priority in decisions and actions.
4. Explore and connect to God's call for justice in the world.

Judicial Affairs

1. Engage in self-reflection to demonstrate increased self-awareness.
2. Understand the role faith plays in developing personal values and behaviors.
3. Appraise and enhance relationships with an increased understanding of how personal choices and behaviors impact others.
4. Build leadership skills in community living, including effective communication of community standards/policies and consequences.

Career Center

1. Describe sense of self, purpose, and God's call in one's life while respecting diversity in others.
2. Demonstrate skills needed to compete professionally in an ever-changing world of work.
3. Show the ability to understand and synthesize diverse career options and be able to delineate paths to reach them.
4. Demonstrate professional skills in identifying, securing, and participating in internships, jobs, and other career related opportunities.

Intercultural Affairs

1. Demonstrate knowledge of one's own cultural heritage; understanding how it affects one's worldview, values, assumptions, and relationships with others.
2. Demonstrate culturally responsive decisions and behaviors.
3. Engage initiatives that promote healthy and non-offensive dialogue regarding cultural differences and issues.
4. Integrate a Christian worldview with intercultural competencies, leading to action and advocacy.

Counseling Center

1. Demonstrate an increased understanding of mental health.
2. Engage in cognitions and behaviors that will improve one's own mental health.
3. Demonstrate skills to empathize with and assist others, from diverse backgrounds, who have mental health concerns.
4. Integrate a Christian faith and worldview with psychological principles in understanding and maintaining mental health.

Housing & Residence Life

1. Make purposeful decisions regarding balance among education, work, and leisure time.
2. Demonstrate the ability to live cooperatively with others, including using healthy assertiveness and conflict resolution when needed
3. Seek involvement with, and demonstrate a valuing of, others, including those different from oneself.
4. Demonstrate leadership, including having a ministry focus in building community, responding to needs and crises, and enforcing community standards.

Convocation

1. Discover and articulate an enhanced self-awareness of various aspects of spiritual formation and growth.
2. Develop an understanding of Christian faith, the character of God, and the relevance of an integrated faith.
3. Generate a working knowledge of right and wrong and prescribe to pursuit of a life of goodness, truth, and beauty.
4. Demonstrate a faith-based appreciation of diversity which leads to a service-oriented understanding of current global issues and perspectives.