Think for Tomorrow
University of the Cumberlands Quick Facts
Our Strategic Vision
- To become a premier liberal arts university
- To prepare students for lives of responsible service and leadership
- To strengthen our General Education curriculum
Our Purpose
- To focus the General Education curriculum as the First Major in the Liberal Arts
- To strengthen metacognitive and self-reflective thinking in General Education capstone courses
Our Plan
- To create Integrated Studies courses that nurture metacognitive abilities enabling students to discover, engage, analyze, and evaluate problems purposefully and ethically
Student Goals
- Discovering – Students will discover the intellectual inquiry skills to identify an issue, problem, or challenge.
- Engaging – Students will engage audience-centered strategies to respond to various points of view on an issue, problem, or challenge.
- Analyzing – Students will analyze the integration of external content with internal self-reflection on an issue, problem, or challenge.
- Evaluating – Students will evaluate the quality of their own and other responses to an issue, problem, or challenge.
Faculty Goals
- Discovering – Faculty will discover methods for strengthening their students’ intellectual inquiry skills in response to an issue, problem, or challenge.
- Engaging – Faculty will engage in strengthening audience-centered strategies in their students’ response to an issue, problem, or challenge.
- Analyzing – Faculty will analyze their students’ integration of external content with internal self-reflection on an issue, problem, or challenge.
- Evaluating – Faculty will evaluate their students’ methods for assessing the quality of their own and others’ responses to an issue, problem, or challenge.