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授权教育体验
At Grand Valley, we center students in everything we do. 教育是 an intrinsic value for the 学习者 themselves, as well as the public 这对我们所在的更广泛的社区是有益的. 我们考虑 each member of our educational community a learner, each of us at 在我们的教育路径的不同阶段. 我们承诺帮助 students discover their passion and guide and support them along the 道路. Leading these efforts are expert 教师 members who develop the curricula our students need for mastery of their chosen academic directions.
我们的战略
Student agency and success will al道路s drive our collective work. 我们将通过优先排序来证明这一点:
- Continual movement toward an understanding of individual student needs, 动机, and goals that is actively supported by 教师 and 工作人员.
- 扩大了学生学习时间的灵活性, 如何, 也是他们学得最好的地方, coupled with appropriate support for 教师 and 工作人员 to be able to adapt to changes while continuing to provide quality educational 机会.
- Relevant programs full of learning 机会 that can be applied to the pressing concerns and problems of our communities and the world.
- Deeper and broader experiential learning for all students that includes internships, practica, 合作配售, 全球学习, 本科研究, 以社区为基础的学习, 和更多的.
- Strong integration of liberal education with professional education that also reflect students’ digital literacy, 技术熟练程度, 以及领导力发展.
- 合作研究, 奖学金, and creative expression that brings students and 教师 members together in partnership and models lifelong learning and pursuit of new knowledge.
- Personalized assistance for students to identify and develop a network of mentors and advisors from among 教师, 工作人员, 同行, 雇主, 校友, 社区成员 that form an extended GVSU learning community.
- Community engagement 实践 that demonstrate reciprocity of learning.
- Progressive expansion of high-demand programs rigorously designed and reflective of the integration of liberal education and professional education.
一生的学习
From our first encounter with 学习者, we strive to provide innovative curricular, co- curricular, and experiential learning 机会. 在大峡谷，我们的教学方法 continues to integrate liberal and professional education in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary 道路s, and it is directly relevant 为我们的毕业生所塑造的社区和世界. 自由 education approach of the undergraduate curriculum provides a foundation for 如何 to learn and 如何 to apply that learning in 领导角色和在不同的社区. 在我们的支持下 guidance, lifetime 学习者 shape those communities while they are students, as well as across the rest of their lifetimes. 我们的教师 model the passionate pursuit of lifetime learning through cutting-edge 研究、学术和表达. 我们追求互惠 relationships with 校友 and community partners to create sustainable 以及支持性学习网络. 我们的课程和教育工作者鼓励 students to generate ideas on 如何 they can be enterprising in their learning, especially in 道路s that enhance their communities and workplaces.
我们的战略
Design and leverage learning 机会 for students of all stages in their lives and careers, 满足他们的需求.
我们将通过以下途径取得成功:
- Championing a strong foundation of liberal education that engenders the mindset and skills to advance students’ education across a lifetime; the liberal education will al道路s be integrated with experiential, 实用, and professional educational 机会 that propel all in our learning communities to positively effect society and the larger world.
- Developing beneficial and supportive connections between and across all those in the larger GVSU learning community, 包括未来和现在的在校生, 校友, 教师, 工作人员, 社区成员.
- Increasing flexibility for students in terms of pace and engagement with curricular components; this may include additional terms across the calendar year, 更多的夏季时间, 在线, low-residency, 按需选择.
- Attracting our traditional-aged FTIAC student population and supporting them in learning across their lifetimes while also providing more and attractive options for adult 学习者.
- Building strategic institutional partnerships to scale our impact, 扩大我们的影响力, 更好地为不同的学习者群体服务.g., 社区学院, Hispanic-serving机构, 历史上的黑人大学, 等.).
教育公平的文化
We embrace our role as a leader in urgently advancing 股本 for all 学习者. Together, we ensure that our community serves as a catalyst toward a more just and sustainable world – on our campuses and beyond. We work to eliminate disparities and obstacles for student success, especially those that have historically been along lines of color, race, socioeconomic status, sex/gender, including gender identity and 表达和性取向.
我们的战略
Center 股本 and 包容 for a more diverse learning community.
为此，我们将采取以下措施:
- Removing systemic barriers to educational 访问, retention, and persistence.
- 制定和建立大学政策, 实践, 系统, and culture that demonstrate our institutional accountability to diversity, 股本, 包容, 访问, 以及所有社区成员的整体福祉.
- Recruiting, empowering, and retaining a diverse student body, 教师, and 工作人员.
- Appropriately acknowledging GVSU exists on the land of the Anishinaabe peoples—the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodéwadmi —and commits to increasing the visibility of Anishinaabe people among its students, 教师, and 工作人员; its curriculum; and its cultural programming.
- 结合环境, 人类, and economic factors toward global and societal vitality that advance beyond our current award-winning sustainable 实践.