College-Wide Learning Outcomes

Because of its commitment to academic excellence, the College requires that its graduates have demonstrated competencies in written and oral communication; computational skills; critical thinking and research skills; technological literacy; civic responsibility; and racial, ethnic and cross-cultural understanding. Toward this end, each student is provided the opportunity to demonstrate the following competencies, abilities, and interests:

• Effective communication skills, including the abilities to speak and write cogently, and to conduct research in relevant sources including the use of electronic databases.
• The ability to understand and apply basic analytic-mathematical operations and to make logical inferences from quantitative data
• Critical thinking skills to organize and process information and to formulate effectively reasoned conclusions.
• Self-confidence and the ability to make moral and social judgments in the context of individual, social, and civic responsibility.
• An understanding of the multi-cultural values within a diverse American and global society sufficient to enable the student to interact collaboratively with others of a different culture.
• Learning skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development.