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Core Commitments Grant
Core Commitments at St. Lawrence
Educating Students for
Personal and Social Responsibility
Excerpts From Our Press Release on February 12, 2007:
"St. Lawrence University is one of 18 institutions chosen by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) to participate in its Core Commitments Leadership Consortium. The schools will lead the first phase of a national initiative, Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility, which seeks to deepen students' sense of integrity, ethical obligations to self and to others, and responsibilities as citizens in a diverse democracy and interdependent world. St. Lawrence will match a $25,000 AAC&U grant award to develop the program over the next two years."
The Core Commitment's initiative focuses specifically on these five dimensions of personal and social responsibility:
- Dimension I: Striving for Excellence
- Dimension II: Cultivating Personal and Academic Integrity
- Dimension III: Contibuting to a Larger Community
- Dimension IV: Taking Seriously the Perspectives of Others
- Dimension V: Developing Competence in Ethical and Moral Reasoning
For further information about the national initiative, visit the AAC&U Core Commitments web site.
Project Overview
- St. Lawrence University's Grant Proposal
- Action Plan Outline from August 2007 - context for our work
- Activity Report for Year 1 (2007/08)
- Final Report - Year 2 (2008/09)
Reading and Discussion Groups
- Faculty/staff Reading Group (Fall 2007)
- The Weave - an online news analysis project initiated by Dr. John Collins and students in the Global Studies department and featuring responses to a series of "big questions"
Deliberative Dialogues
What Are Deliberative Dialogues?
- Scott London (2005): Thinking Together: The Power of Deliberative Dialogue
- Ground Rules for Participation in Deliberative Dialogues
- Facilitator's Guide
Critical Conversations and Deliberative Dialgues at SLU
- Critical Conversations Fall 2007
- Syllabus for PCA 212 (Offered by Dr. Traci Fordham-Hernandez & Dr. Ron Flores in Fall 2007 and Dr. Liz Regosin & Dr. Traci Fordham-Hernandez in Spring 2008)
The Personal and Social Responsibility Inventory (Nov. 2007)
- National Survey Summary
- Powerpoint presentation to the campus community 10/13/2008
- St. Lawrence University's Survey Summary
- Additional Detail (on-campus access only):
Data and Comments - The Survey Instrument
- Student version
- Faculty/Staff version
Presentations at the Annual Core Commitments Institute
- Poster - Portland Summer Institute, July 2008