Club and Organization Learning Outcomes

Students who are a part of clubs and organizations at Whitman College will learn:

Personal Identity (personal level)

• Meaning making: explore issues of personal purpose, beliefs (why am I doing what I’m doing?); articulate personal values and beliefs
• Self-awareness
• Think critically about issues and personal responses
• Ethical/moral development
• Discretion
• Value learning/identify learning in co-curricular experiences
• Connecting co-curricular experiences with academic lessons

Relational Skills (group level)

• Inter/intra-group collaboration
• Communication skills
• Delegation
• Controversy with civility
• Group management and development

Group Identity (community level)

• Inter/intra-group collaboration
• Articulate purpose of group
• Analyze and think critically about campus issues and campus climate and group response
• Pragmatism
• Redundancy awareness
• Citizenship: group role within community

Hard Skills

• Knowledge of resources and available “tools”
• Fiscal management & budgeting
• Idea actualization/event planning
• Record-keeping