Prioritize openness and curiosity. Express ideas freely and ask questions; sit comfortably with open-ended questions and responses.
Engage in discussion-based learning. Build skills of listening, processing, synthesizing, responding.
Make explicit connections. Connect to self, to history, to future, to now.
Build ideas together. Cultivate a culture of “Yes and”; work to build on the ideas of others, develop a praxis based on those ideas, co-generate possibilities.
Hone self-awareness. Be grounded in yourself; comfortable enough that you can answer a question or contribute without being afraid.
Have intellectual integrity. Hold yourself to the same standards to which you hold others.
Personal and Collective Well-Being
Cultivate vulnerability. Have courage to share in a space that challenges you to grow, consider new perspectives, and lack judgment; ask for help and be willing to help.
Practice empathy. Help everyone feel like they’re enough.
Develop resilience. Be able to pick yourself up, reflect and continue on; practice patience and grounding; keep calm in uncertainty; know that temporary pauses are sometimes necessary.
Use more of your authentic voice. Be confident to say what you mean without having to filter yourself; know that when you want to talk about something, you feel safe enough to share and receive the validation of being heard; feel self-empowered.
Generate an inner sense of fulfillment and validation. You don’t have to compare yourself to others to be worthy.
Community Engagement
Advocate. Initiate action for yourself and for others and feel equipped with the tools to do so.
Practice intellectual humility. Help each other discover biases and prejudices; have a willingness to learn, listen, and participate.
Share collective responsibility. Show up for yourself and others. Recognize that we are all accountable to each other to create conditions in which we learn and thrive. Form a community through common experiences; recognize that your choices and your perspective impact others.
Critically analyze power dynamics and structures. Question yourself and your world: What is our relationship to authority? How does authority operate?
Self-Determination
Hold yourself accountable. Know what it’s like to learn in a mature college environment; practice time management, organization, prioritization and self-care; recognize that showing up prepared impacts the learning environment.
Have confidence to try and fail. Lean into challenges; be intellectually curious; accept if things go wrong; understand that you don’t have to be “perfect”.
Take control of your learning / have agency. Develop your independence and a college-ready mindset; choose your own path; strive to be reliable and self-sufficient.
Feel self-fulfillment and purposeful. Enroll in classes that are engaging; recognize how your actions have an impact on your future; feel like you can accomplish anything.
