Bringing Theory to Practice

Goals

Goal I
To explore the connection of forms of engaged learning to the health of students with the objective of increasing the full and healthy development of each learner, and to foster productive interrelationships among the elements of liberal education including learning, individual realization, and the forming and sustaining of a civic society.

Goal II
To increase the number of institutions that effectively address campus issues in order to achieve these outcomes, to provide resources to help them do so, and to assist campuses as they consider additional ways to prevent or intervene in responding to incidences of student mental health-related problems and abusive behaviors.

Goal III
To encourage greater utilization of the fundamental academic strengths of institutions to support healthy student development. To encourage cross-campus discussions and the valuing of the interdependency of student affairs and academic affairs.

Goal IV
To increase the involvement of faculty in changing the practices of culture of the academy to focus on teaching and learning methods that contribute to students' success as well as their health and civic development.

Goal V
To increase the involvement of students in bringing about these changes - on campuses and in the communities that they affect.

Goal VI
To increase institutional attention and commitment to the linkages the Project addresses and to create systems of support, reward and maintenance that value them, and to thereby institutionalize the means that can be determined to promote the learning, the well-being, and the civic development of students.