Emerging Initiatives

Loren Pinkerman, Maranah Sauter, Sylvia Smith & Marty Pirrman

• Determine if the calling desires to be traditional liberal arts institution or a comprehensive institution grounded in the liberal arts.
• Determine what is meant by “premier liberal arts college.”
• Increase the number of majors in traditional liberal arts disciplines such as economics, English, history, philosophy and modern languages.
• Add traditional liberal arts courses or programs such as Latin, upper division economics and speech and debate.
• Recruit home schooled students and students enrolled in private schools.
• Initiate an information literacy program across all disciplines at the college.

Sandie Johnson, Linda McMullen, Bill McCoy, Jay Simmons, Greg McClanahan

• Get students actively engaged in learning in the classrooms, provide mentors to facilitate research in each area of study.
• Instill life-long learning. If not through graduate school, through education about world affairs and current events.
• Develop a sense of community at LaGrange College.

Kim Myrick, Phyllis Whitney, David Oki-Ahearn and John Jackson

• Academic quality—flagship programs, graduate school placement, undergraduate research & scholarship.
• Servant leadership—expand the program, make it comprehensive across campus, provide a systemic approach.
• Global citizenship—increase foreign language offerings, study abroad, International student presence, environmental sustainability.

Shirley Harrington, David Rowe, John Lawrence, Stuart Gulley

• Develop cooperative relationships through programs with schools abroad.
• Investigate a football program on campus.
• Reintroduce summer workshops on campus during summer months.
• Pledge a four-year term to graduate for incoming freshmen.
• Increase opportunities for internships to gain exposure in the work force.
• Increase graduate school attendance.
• Develop a senior-level capstone experience to involve research, writing, art culminating with presentation to department of major. This would be directed by 2 professors, involving one from outside the area of major.
• Environmental sustainability