Aims and Outcomes

Aims

In joining the American Democracy Project, Geneseo aims not only to advance the project's overarching goals but also to:

Further the College's mission of helping students to become "socially responsible citizens with skills and values important to the pursuit of an enriched life and success in the world."
Participate in the never-finished process of creating democracy by helping students to become informed, inquiring critics of American democratic practice. Critical citizens of democracy criticize not merely to disparage but to hold the community and its leaders accountable to fundamental democratic principles.
Participate in the never-finished process of creating democracy by exhibiting good citizenship, as an institution, toward the wider communities of which the College is a part.
Strengthen democracy, community, and respect for diversity at the College.

As a result of its involvement with the American Democracy Project, Geneseo expects that it will:

Define the specific knowledge, skill, and competency outcomes that constitute a student's education in civic understanding and participation.
Define a coherent set of active learning opportunities that will produce these knowledge, skill, and competency outcomes.
Formulate expectations for student involvement in such opportunities.
Create new opportunities for active learning, both within and outside the classroom, and enhance current ones. Examples of active learning opportunities include:

Create a campus culture that models and reinforces the same outcomes in civic understanding and participation that students are expected to meet. Campus-wide activities, routines, and institutions intended to promote such a culture might include: