ATTITUDES/VALUES ("Think About") Values significant to enriching one's own and others' lives.

The General Education Program provides students opportunities for exposure to the following values and attitudes, which may be expressed in the following ways:

Respect for differences

· recognize the broad range of differences and develop an understanding and sensitivity for differences

· broaden knowledge, understanding, and personal community by interacting with persons who are different

· encourage maintenance and sharing of differences among persons of different cultures and ethnic backgrounds without expectations for others to assimilate

· recognize a person's weaknesses as well as a person's strengths

Freedom of inquiry and dissent

· recognize that freedom of inquiry must include the possibility of dissent

· test premises rather than take them at face value

· appreciate the right to take an adversarial stance against bodies of information in order to test them

· develop tolerance

Justice and equality

· explain from a Judeo-Christian perspective why all persons are considered to be created in the image of God and thus worthy of respect

· describe at least one way in which one's personal actions may have an adverse effect on the life or living conditions of people elsewhere in the world

· recognize how policies or practices embodied in institutions, intentionally or unintentionally, lead to inequities in the treatment of others, especially the poor, marginalized, or powerless

Self-responsibility and autonomy

· exhibit behaviors that illustrate that they have taken ownership of various dimensions of their lives

· accept the consequences of their own actions and words

· recognize when independent work is necessary and when collaboration is appropriate

Caring, service, community responsibility

· acknowledge and accept themselves as members of both local and world-wide communities whose interests, concerns, and issues are shared

· demonstrate care for one another by offering challenges and support to peers

· fulfill civic duties and become involved in community issues and activities

· volunteer time to both on- and off-campus groups dedicated to helping underprivileged, minorities, the environment, children, the homeless, and any who are in need

· show concern for the global community by gathering for discussion or prayer about current issues

Aesthetic sense

· develop a personal set of values and tastes in order to perceive and respond to the arts and the artistic

· appreciate artistic and other events

· recognize the roles that such events have in a historical context and in current society

· assimilate artistic awareness into various aspects of personal, professional, and public life