Enriching Educational Experiences (EEE)

Complementary learning opportunities enhance academic programs. Experiencing diversity teaches students valuable things about themselves and other cultures. Used appropriately, technology facilitates learning and promotes collaboration between peers and instructors. Internships, community service, and senior capstone courses provide opportunities to integrate and apply knowledge. Such experiences make learning more meaningful and, ultimately, more useful because what students know becomes a part of who they are.

Activities and conditions:

• Used an electronic medium (listserv, chat group, Internet, instant messaging, etc.) to discuss or complete an assignment
• Had serious conversations with students of a different race or ethnicity than your own
• Had serious conversations with students who are very different from you in terms of their religious beliefs, political opinions, or personal values
• Practicum, internship, field experience, co-op experience, or clinical assignment
• Community service or volunteer work
• Participate in a learning community or some other formal program where groups of students take two or more classes together
• Foreign language coursework
• Study abroad
• Independent study or self-designed major
• Culminating senior experience (capstone course, senior project or thesis, comprehensive exam, etc.)
• Participating in co-curricular activities (organizations, campus publications, student government, fraternity or sorority, intercollegiate or intramural sports, etc.)
• Encouraging contact among students from different economic, social, and racial or ethnic backgrounds