Specific Categories of Activity~Wild Hope Project: 2003-2007 To Challenge the university to grapple with "vocation" in an intellectually rich and world-engaged context:Curricular enhancement
- Service-learning course development (2 per year, 2004-07)
- Service-learning workshops for faculty (1-2 per year, 2003-07)
- Mini-sabbaticals for faculty service-learning projects (1 per year, 2004-07)
- Development of disciplinary "gateway" and "vocation of leadership" courses (2-3 per year, 2005-07)
- Student/faculty research on communities, congregations, and civic life (2-3 projects per year, 2004-07)
- "Returner" reflection groups for students returning from off-campus study (2-6 per year, 2004-07)
Visiting speakers, artists, and mentors
- Global activists and artists of popular culture (2-3 per year, 2004-07; usually very well-known persons)
- Community activists and exceptional pastors (2-3 per year, 2004-07)
- Role models in the disciplines and professions (2 per year, 2004-07 - 8 total)
- Mentor-in-residence (1 per year, 2004-07; usually from previous categories, for a longer stay)
- Recent alumi/ae with exceptional experience (at least 1 per year, 2003-07
To nurture students toward the formation of meaning and purpose in their lives ("vocation")
- Revised new student orientation (2004-07), including first-year student orientation retreat
- Expanded numbers of 1-credit "vocation advising" courses (2-4 per year, beginning 2004)
- A societally and intellectually engaged "ministry exploration" group for students considering
- full-time ministry
- Increased personnel support in Academic Advising, Career Development, and Campus Minsitry
To cultivate the foundation of PLU's faculty and staff to meet the challenge of nurturing vocation:
Workshops to deepen and broaden competence in critical and theological reflection
- For faculty and administrators facilitating student groups (e.g., the "returner" reflection groups)
- For faculty teaching courses enhanced through the project (service-learning, "gateway," etc.; 2004-07)
- For RA's and other students in leadership roles (annual, 2004-07)
- For administrators and staff in critical roles affecting students (annual, 2004-07)
- For faculty, regarding religious commitments in the classroom (annual, 2004-07)
Intensive study seminars
- For faculty (year-long, 2 per year beginning January 2004; 8 faculty per seminar)
- For administors and staff (semester-long, 2004 and 2006; 10-12 per seminar)
Other faculty development activites
- Orientation of new faculty (annual, 2004-07)
- Retreat for faculty advisers (annual, 2004-07)
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