Strategic Priority
St. Olaf will cultivate innovation, creativity, and synergistic connections among our centers, academic programs, vocational discernment opportunities, and curriculum.
ACTION STEPS
- Assess and innovate our academic programs, building on our distinctive strengths to address the needs of students and growing industries.
- With an architectural firm, assess potential reconfiguration of existing spaces in Rolvaag Memorial Library to create an innovation and creativity space.
- Test and plan for program adjacencies to maximize creativity and imagination, focused on the benefits of bringing together our academic innovation with the college’s centers of excellence — including the Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts — and the curriculum, makerspace, digital analytics, and leadership development to create a social impact or innovation hub.
Strategic Priority
St. Olaf will guide each student’s flexible, holistic St. Olaf Pathway through advising, mentoring, and the development or purchase of a software platform to capture student learning in and out of the classroom.
ACTION STEPS
- Generate resources and devise training to help advisors and mentors guide student exploration, reflection, and development of their St. Olaf Pathway.
- Develop a robust second-year experience with a holistic focus on vocation, which we define as “life on purpose for the common good.” This builds on our existing first-year experience, and students should transition into a major through a process of discernment of their desired outcomes and contributions to the common good.
- Develop or adopt a software platform that makes the multiple dimensions of a student’s pathway visible and amplifies and facilitates advising and mentoring.
Strategic Priority
St. Olaf will innovate our academic programs by collaboratively developing credentials that uplift the value of liberal arts learning and embed career readiness skills across the curriculum.
ACTION STEPS
- Develop credentials programs to allow students to deepen, expand, and document competencies and character qualities they have cultivated within and beyond their classroom experiences. Possibilities include Public Leadership, Business and Entrepreneurship, Healthcare Innovation, Rural Health, Artificial Intelligence, and Google Analytics.
- Develop credentials that align with our Ole Core learning outcomes and the National Association of Colleges and Employers learning outcomes to assist students in articulating the career readiness competencies afforded by a liberal arts education.
- Enhance alignment of credentialing opportunities and academic programming, including collaborations with business and industry partners.
- Expand credentialing opportunities for alumni to enhance our commitment to lifelong learning.
OUR GOALS
You must be logged in to post a comment.