Learning
Encourage a lifelong sense of wonder by providing educational experiences essential for living intellectually curious, personally fulfilling, and socially responsible lives.
We are committed to providing curricular, co-curricular, and experiential learning opportunities where students can practice and refine essential skills needed for successful careers and engaged lives as global citizens. We will highlight connections between classroom learning and workforce needs, ensuring our students are prepared to interact with a rapidly diversifying world. To encourage this hands-on learning, we will provide proactive student support, unambiguous communication, and intentional outreach.
Creating a sense of wonder is important not only for students, but also for UND employees. Faculty and staff should feel inspired and bring a sense of curiosity to their work; everyone should see themselves making a difference at UND. We will encourage UND employees to create new ideas, seek new skills, model creativity, and try new and innovative approaches to their work.
Learning Strategic Priorities
| Priority | Priority Objectives |
|---|---|
| Experiential Learning | Cultivate experiential learning opportunities with real-world applications, rewarding collaborations that are built on applied learning. |
| Global Perspectives | Foster a global perspective to prepare students for engagement and leadership, by promoting experiences that expand horizons even as they build skills. |
| Digital Technologies | Promote digital technologies for engaged learning and value-added opportunities for students, faculty, staff, alumni and collaborators. |
| Serve the whole student | Serve the whole student with foundational learning opportunities that support their growth and creativity. Promote core competencies of life skills, including the abilities to set and achieve goals, work on a team, and make responsible choices. |
| Physical & virtual learning spaces | Enhance physical and virtual learning spaces to ensure faculty and students have the tools and resources necessary for productive and enriching educational experiences. |
| Individualized advising and mentoring | Expand individualized advising and mentoring, to help students see how skills can be transferred across courses and extra-curriculars. Provide opportunities for students to document learning, showcase their work and disseminate research and ideas. |
| Learning approaches, environments & student-centered pedagogy | Infuse dynamic learning approaches, environments and student-centered pedagogy (e.g. competency-based, project-based, high impact practices, etc.) in the core curriculum. Enhance the goals of fostering creative expression, critical inquiry, and interdisciplinary learning. |
| Pathways to certificate or degree attainment | Create more pathways to certificate or degree attainment for students of all ages, incomes and backgrounds. |
| Credit and non-credit learning | Provide credit and non-credit learning opportunities for campus and online students, UND employees, alumni and community members through innovative programming, rural and urban community outreach, and cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations. |
Learning Newsletters
UND’s ‘Learning’ core value helps students unlock the vast power of experiences, say deans of School of Graduate Studies and Nistler College of Business & Public Administration
UND poised to help fill shortage of air traffic controllers
‘LEARNING’ strategic priority: ‘Cultivate experiential learning opportunities with real-world applications, rewarding collaborations that are built on applied learning’
UND delegation travels to Thailand for Global Peace Summit
‘LEARNING’ strategic priority: ‘Foster a global perspective to prepare students for engagement and leadership, by promoting experiences that expand horizons even as they build skills’
Five UND students advance in startup funding, support program
‘LEARNING’ strategic priority: ‘Expand individualized advising and mentoring. ... Provide opportunities for students to document learning, showcase their work and disseminate research and ideas’
UND professors partner with Humanities North Dakota
‘LEARNING’ strategic priority: ‘Provide credit and non-credit learning opportunities ... through innovative programming, rural and urban community outreach, and cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations’
GGs (good games) by the hundreds as UND hosts Esports tournament
‘LEARNING’ strategic priority: ‘Promote digital technologies for engaged learning and value-added opportunities for students, faculty, staff, alumni and collaborators’
Finding your own Northern Lights
Learning begins with a sense of wonder — and that’s what UND is all about, write the University’s provost and VP for Student Affairs
Dressage champion has no time for horsing around
Aspiring Olympian balances heavy demands of sport, study with UND’s flexible Self-Paced Enroll Anytime program
For biomedical engineering students, internships start on Day 1
Each day after class, students’ real-world problem solving with industry partners begins
Sim labs train future doctors and nurses
State-of-the-art simulation labs — some of them unique in the country — help UND health care students hone their skills
Teachers send hopes, dreams afloat with canoes
Project CURRENT offers place-based lessons to connect with natural world
How we’ll track progress on ‘Learning’ at UND
UND will monitor key elements such as ‘experiential learning,’ ‘individualized advising’ and ‘fostering a global perspective’
Learning Stories
