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