Lesson 17: Student Life and Student Development
Attention
Why is important to become involved on-campus? When were you involved in something that mattered to you? Share this with a person close to where you’re sitting and then share with the larger group if you’d like to
Read this article from Alexander Astin
Student Involvement: A Developmental Theory for Higher Education
PRINCIPLES FOR COMMUNITY ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES In 1990, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching initiated a study of community as it related to college and university campuses, entitled Campus Life: In Search of Community. Surveying college and university presidents, Ernest Boyer developed six principles that defined the kind of community every college and university should strive to be. A Purposeful Community: A college or university is a place where faculty and students share academic goals and work together to strengthen teaching and learning on campus. An Open Community: A college or university is a place where freedom of expression is uncompromisingly protected and where civility is powerfully affirmed. A Just Community: A college or university is a place where the sacredness of the person is honored and where diversity is aggressively pursued. A Disciplined Community: A college or university is a place where individuals accept their obligations to the group and where well defined governance procedures guide behavior for the common good. A Caring Community: A college or university is a place where the well being of each member is sensitively supported and where service to others is encouraged. A Celebrative Community: A college or university is one in which the heritage of the institution is remembered and where rituals affirming both tradition and change are widely shared. Boyer, Ernest. (1990). Campus life: In search of community. Commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. |
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this lesson's material, students will be able to:
- Interpret Chickering's 7 Vectors of Student Development
Teaching
Arthur Chickering’s 7 Vectors of Student Development
Click here to read an article explaining Chickering's 7 Vectors of Student Development
Chickering's psychosocial theory focuses primarily on identity development. It examines this by means of seven vectors of development which contribute to the development of identity. The seven vectors are often used with student development in college since students tend to move from one vector to the next though they can be fluid as well.
• Developing Competence
• Managing Emotions
• Moving through Autonomy toward Interdependence
• Developing Mature Interpersonal relationships
• Establishing Identity
• Developing Purpose
• Developing Integrity
Read a short paper on Arthur Chickering’s Seven Vectors of Identity Development and read a short article on the correlation between involvement on campus and students’ satisfaction with college
Assessment
Lesson 17 Quiz
Read the article explaining Chickering's 7 Vectors.
- Write a paragraph reflectiong on two vectors that you have mastered.
- Write a paragraph reflection on two vectors that you could further develop.