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THIS IS A DOCMENT WE USED FOR OUR MEETINGS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, AUGUST 1-5.

IT REPRESENTS A WORK IN PROGRESS AT THAT TIME.

Core Commitments Matrix - Summary Sheet
Summarize the scope of your institution's efforts to educate for personal and social responsibility
	Dimension 1	Dimension 2	Dimension 3	Dimension 4	Dimension 5	Degree of Pervasiveness
	Striving for excellence	Cultivating personal and academic integrity	Contributing to a larger community	Taking seriously the perspectives of others	Developing competence in ethical and moral reasoning	Degree of Pervasiveness
Mission and Purpose	Mission Statement Guiding Principles	Academic Honor Code Code of Community Standards Mission	Mission Statement Guiding Principles	Mission Statement Guiding Principles	Mission Statement Guiding Principles	High
Campus Life	Programming in Residence Halls RCC Cup Student Athletes	QEP of Academic and Social Integrity Council of Peers	Student clubs Activities Peer Education Camp Alliance	Office of Multi-cultural Affairs Rollins Relief	Community Engagement Office of Com. Standards RA training	Low
Curriculum	Academic Warning System Friday classes Special RCC/ Intersession Classes	Honor Code and Convocation Living-Learning Communities New IRB	Community Engagement Global Education	“C” General Education Requirement Internationaliza-tion Petters travel grants	“V” Values GER Service Learning Peer Mentor Training	Med
Community and Campus Partnerships	3-2 Crummer Program Academic Internships Partner with WP police	Winter Park police sessions with students	Over 150 S-L sites Genius Reserve WP Com. C. Fern Creek	Habitat for Humanities Houses		Med
Incentives and Rewards	Awards banquets Cornell and Deans' Scholarships RCC stipends		Service Learning Course Development grants Petters Travel grants	Petters grants	“V” workshops for faculty	Low

Pervasiveness Med Low High Med Low

	Core Commitments Matrix - Sheet 1 of 5
	Dimension 1 Striving for excellence: developing a strong work ethic and consciously doing one's very best in all aspects of college	Degree of Pervasiveness
Mission and Purpose	MISSION STATEMENT: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. THE ROLLINS EXPERIENCE: GUIDING COMMITMENTS Rollins is a laboratory for pragmatic liberal education where students, faculty and staff engage in active learning that leads to transformative experiences. The Rollins Experience will integrate: • a diverse community of learners committed to intellectual values, scholarship and integrity; • an institutional culture that embraces local and global citizenship and leadership; • a campus environment that contributes to and integrates students' intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and moral development and well-being;
Campus Life	RCC cup TJ's support services (writing and tutoring) Programming in Residential units Athletes are held academically responsible – students first
Curriculum	Advising program 1 st year Academic warning system, where they develop action plan Rigorous academics Special RCC and Intersession classes Classes on Fridays through curriculum, and special Friday afternoon in RCC Hiring External and Competitive Scholarships Director More rigorous appeals process
Community and Campus Partnerships	High standards for academic internships 3-2 program with Crummer School of Business Working with College Quarter Neighborhood Association Partnerships with Winter Park police department
Incentives and Rewards	Academic Awards banquet Athletic Awards banquet Cornell and Deans' Scholarships RCC stipends to faculty for special work Designated Sullivan Scholars

	Core Commitments Matrix - Sheet 2 of 5
	Dimension 2 Cultivating personal and academic integrity: recognizing and acting on a sense of honor ranging from honesty in relationships to principled engagement with formal academic honors codes and expectations	Degree of Pervasiveness
Mission and Purpose	MISSION STATEMENT: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership. ACADEMIC HONOR CODE CODE OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS
Campus Life	QEP – Academic and Social Integrity Community Contracts in Residential Life Requirements to live in Sutton apartments Community Hearing Council of peers
Curriculum	Academic Honor Code introduced in 2006-7 – Honor Council Living-Learning Communities New Institutional Review Board Signing Honor Code at Convocation Inclusion of Community Standards on syllabi Cornell and Deans' scholarships Child Development Center
Community and Campus Partnerships	Winter Park Police – sessions during Orientation and other times
Incentives and Rewards

	Core Commitments Matrix - Sheet 3 of 5
	Dimension 3 Contributing to a larger community: recognizing and acting on one's responsibility to the educational community, the local community, and the wider national and global society	Degree of Pervasiveness
Mission and Purpose	MISSION STATEMENT: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. THE ROLLINS EXPERIENCE: GUIDING COMMITMENTS Rollins is a laboratory for pragmatic liberal education where students, faculty and staff engage in active learning that leads to transformative experiences. The Rollins Experience will integrate: • a diverse community of learners committed to intellectual values, scholarship and integrity; • an institutional culture that embraces local and global citizenship and leadership; • a campus environment that contributes to and integrates students' intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and moral development and well-being; • an innovative , supportive environment in which faculty, staff, and students learn and grow.
Campus Life	Student Club/Organizations and Development Opportunities: Rollins Service Organizations (that include): Amnesty International, EcoRollins, Rollins Relief, Hunger and Homelessness, The Ripple Effect Club, Unity in the Community, LEAD (Leadership Education and Academic Development) Team, Life is for Service Club, Five Stones, Dance Marathon, Habitat for Humanity, Student Government, Greek-Letter Organizations (ROPES requirements), Amnesty International, Cultural Action Committee Activities: JUMP (Join Us in Making Progress), Intercoastal CleanUp, MLK Days of Service, Relay for Life, Holiday Fun Fest, Halloween Howl, Alternative Spring Break and May Service Weeks Peer Education (PMs, IMPACT, RAs) Camp Alliance , Circle of Friends, and Summer/Fall Orientation (Because of these experiences most students will engage in over 10 hours of service before their first academic class at Rollins Ward Living-Learning Community in Community Engagement (5 classes); RCC German/Spanish Service-Learning Language House; Fine Arts Living learning Community Program for International Students
Curriculum	Engaged Scholarship & Community Engagement Service-Learning (65 courses offered/ year in every department at Rollins) SPARC (Service, Philanthropy, Activism Rollins College ): Academic community-based learning as part of the RCC program January Intersession (Katrina Project/Rollins Relief, Hunger and Homelessness, Our Hispanic Neighbors, Community Art) Campus-Community Research (including YSC, Summer Research, Florida Studies Curriculum, Honors Thesis) Leadership Development (INT curriculum: INT 260 Foundations of Leadership, INT 261 Leadership in Action, INT 395 Winter Park Fellowship, INT 315a Pathways to College) January Intersession: Foundations of Leadership, Club/Org Leadership, Social Advocacy through Film Global Education: Global Learning : China Center , INB curriculum, study abroad ( London , Australia ) Global Responsibility : Service-learning field study, international activism, citizenship education Faculty Vision Fellows Faculty identified to foster educational environments that institutionalize global citizenship and responsible leadership as a part of the curriculum (service-learning, leadership development, human rights, social justice education) New York Times/Wall Street Journal Readership Program Summer Reading Program Summer Student/Faculty Collaborative Research Program Florida Studies Program on Genius Reserve Child Development Center 's Student Research Program
Community and Campus Partnerships	Over 150 Service-learning partner sites City of Winter Park Winter Park Community Center (Unity in the Community) OCPS, SCPS (all Central Florida Public Schools) Genius Reserve Florida State Parks Winter Park Health Foundation Florida Hospital Hunger and Homeless Networks (Coalition for the Homeless, Ripple Effect, Christian Service Centers , Pathways to Care, Second Harvest Foodbank) YMCA- Winter Park Rollins College Philanthropy and Non Profit Leadership Center Rollins Childhood Development and Research Center Rollins Upward Bound and Talent Search Programs Apopka Farmworkers Ministries Habitat for Humanity Florida Campus Compact Give Kids the World
Incentives and Rewards	Service-Learning Course Development Grants/ Research funds and project funds/honoraria for Faculty Fellows, summer research and YSC Conference travel opportunities for faculty (engaged scholarship) Petter's International Travel grants

	Core Commitments Matrix - Sheet 4 of 5
	Dimension 4 Taking seriously the perspectives of others: recognizing and acting on the obligation to inform one's own judgment; relinquishing a sense of entitlement; engaging diverse and competing perspectives as a resource for learning, work, and responsible citizenship in both local and global communities	Degree of Pervasiveness
Mission and Purpose	MISSION STATEMENT: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. THE ROLLINS EXPERIENCE: GUIDING COMMITMENTS Rollins is a laboratory for pragmatic liberal education where students, faculty and staff engage in active learning that leads to transformative experiences. The Rollins Experience will integrate: • a diverse community of learners committed to intellectual values, scholarship and integrity; • an institutional culture that embraces local and global citizenship and leadership; • a campus environment that contributes to and integrates students' intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and moral development and well-being;
Campus Life	Office of Multi-cultural Affair Cultural Action Committee R-Space Camp Alliance Rollins Relief
Curriculum	The Knowledge of Other Cultures GER Internationalization semester abroad lab trips for courses Petters International Experiences for Faculty Ashforth/Cornell Grants
Community and Campus Partnerships	Habitat for Humanity – Rollins Houses in Winter Park , and Rollins Relief in New Orleans
Incentives and Rewards

	Core Commitments Matrix - Sheet 5 of 5
	Dimension 5 Developing competence in ethical and moral reasoning: developing ethical and moral reasoning in ways that incorporate the other four responsibilities; using such reasoning in learning and in life	Degree of Pervasiveness
Mission and Purpose	MISSION STATEMENT: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. THE ROLLINS EXPERIENCE: GUIDING COMMITMENTS Rollins is a laboratory for pragmatic liberal education where students, faculty and staff engage in active learning that leads to transformative experiences. The Rollins Experience will integrate: • a diverse community of learners committed to intellectual values, scholarship and integrity; • an institutional culture that embraces local and global citizenship and leadership; • a campus environment that contributes to and integrates students' intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and moral development and well-being;
Campus Life	Community Engagement Office of Community Standards and Responsibility New Debate Society focusing on social issues RA training
Curriculum	The Values GER Service Learning Peer Mentor training
Community and Campus Partnerships
Incentives and Rewards	Petters Grant for faculty and student support for international trips

Gap and Asset Analysis Form

Please return this form to Michèle Leaman ( leaman@aacu.org ) by July 25, 2007.

1) What were the highlights from your analysis of your institution's assets, where institutional commitments were visible and connected to one another?

Community Engagement/Service Learning programs are strong and have the full support of Academic and Student Life. (e.g. Fern Creek Elementary School ).
Our Mission Statement, Guiding Principles, and QEP (all adopted in last 3 years) express these goals explicitly; now we are in process of instantiating them in campus life and curriculum
Taking Seriously the Perspective of Others—with our Community engagement, Petters grants, Rollins Relief, etc., we are strong in this area. However, student outcomes are not where they should be in terms of internationalization, yet.
Cornell and Deans' Scholarships have been introduced; we need to improve mentoring, however.
Faculty's willingness to participate in Living Learning communities.

2) Please describe your analysis of the gaps revealing places where efforts at educating for PSR were not pervasive across your institution.

Teaching/encouraging ethical reasoning across campus in both academic and student life.
We often lack Rewards and Incentives for faculty and students.
We do not regularly confront and challenge negative behavior; this needs to be done consistently and across campus.
We need to better integrate non-academic programs with academic programs/mission, especially in residence halls and Greek life.

3) Please list two pressing questions that you would like to seek advice for from other Leadership Consortium schools.

What are academic and co-curricular programs/initiatives (the best practices) that will help engender personal responsibility (yielding personal excellence (being the best they can be))?
How do we get students on campus to support the community standards?