Co-Curricular Education

• Consider awarding “certificates” for a leadership position and/or for a course sequence that demonstrates purposeful effort and social/civic responsibility in its contributions to a real-life situation or experience.
• Establish a center (or dedicate part of an existing unit) for coordinating co-curricular opportunities.
• Include orientation and mentoring programs like FYSOP in the “for-credit” package of the University’s experiential and service opportunities, letting students earn 1–2 credits as an independent project.
• Promote 2-credit courses as flexible ways to incorporate co-curricular, cross-disciplinary, and volunteer work that stress social awareness and civic activity, especially those courses that include research-based and problem-solving assignments.
• Establish flexible criteria that allow students to tailor a course of service work to their majors and to their career aspirations and thus encourage students to combine individual elements of a degree program in a cohesive and more multifaceted portfolio of their work.

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