Learning Theme at CF

In 2002-2003, the college inaugurated an institutionwide learning theme, Integrity: A Value of Community. The learning theme study promotes connections among the segments of the CF community — students, faculty, staff, administration — and with the larger community of which it is a part.

In exploring an annual theme, the college family becomes more involved in the holistic nature of learning, developing an awareness of “learning across the curriculum” and experiencing first hand that knowledge and insight cross departmental barriers. Involving students in a learning theme also has the benefit of implementing many of the Institutional Learning Outcomes including Communications, Computer and Information Skills, Critical Reasoning, Global Socio-Cultural Responsibility and Quantitative and Analytical Reasoning. Students and staff read a book in common and organize classroom and campus events around questions related to the theme.

The themes are based on defining the four values in the college vision statement — integrity, service, responsibility and dignity — and determining what these mean to the CF learning community. Service is the theme for 2011–2012.