Showing posts with label learning reconsidered. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning reconsidered. Show all posts

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Student Affairs and Campus Diversity Activities

Since colleges and universities are becoming more diverse each year, student affairs departments have great opportunities to take advantage of this fact and program campus diversity activities that will help achieve certain outcomes suggested by Learning Reconsidered. Learning Reconsidered was a document jointly released by NASPA and ACPA in 2004. A new article written by Toastmasters DTM Clint Cora identifies and describes which specific learning outcomes that can be achieved by student affairs staff if the right campus activities involved diversity.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

College Diversity and Learning Reconsidered

College diversity and the Learning Reconsidered document which was jointly released by NASPA and ACPA in 2004 can work very well together. Learning Reconsidered suggests that college students can learn and develop outside the classroom through campus activities as well as inside the classroom. If certain campus activities had elements of diversity, then learning outcomes will be achieved according to the guidelines. A new articles explores how college diversity and Learning Reconsidered are related. Other outcomes described in this document involve communication between people and Toastmasters can certainly play a role here.