Assessment
Academics AffairsCollege AssessmentTypical Incoming Student | Typical Faculty Member The Typical Incoming StudentYou live in the moment. You might have goals, but you can respond willingly to what is going on around you. For this reason, it would not be surprising to see you playing ultimate Frisbee on Scott Field an hour before a major exam or going to St. Louis the night before a major paper is due. Yes, you do find ways to make everything more exciting, to inject drama into every project. Some may call you lighthearted. Faculty may even call you irresponsible. Others just wish that their glass were as full as yours seems to be. Your happy-go-lucky behavior might be heightened by the fact that you are a people person. This is evident in your empathic abilities. You can easily feel the pain of your Frisbee playing friend who got a D on the exam. He can probably feel your pain when you get your paper back. One thing you see that others may not is their own potential. In your view, each individual is a work in progress, alive with possibilities. When you interact with others, your goal is to help them experience success. Your adaptable nature sometimes causes you to neglect your own work to help your friends. You are focused not only on others, but also on your own core values
and beliefs. You tend to value high morals--both in yourself and
others. These core values may be interpreted as a set of rules concerning
what is right and wrong. They provide you with a guide that helps
you define and avoid temptations. They also
give your life meaning and satisfaction. The Typical Faculty MemberYou love to learn and are highly inquisitive. The process of learning, in addition to the outcome, is especially exciting for you. You are energized by the steady and deliberate journey from ignorance to competence. Given your love of learning, it is not surprising that you find many things interesting. You probably find ideas exciting because of their infinite variety and complexity. Students may actually view your lectures on learned points of minutiae uninteresting. However, your strengths help you thrive in dynamic work environment where you get to teach material well outside your area of expertise. You seem to view this not entirely as a curse of a small institutional budget, but actually as an opportunity for personal growth. This desire to grow may be related to your desire to continually achieve more. You have an internal fire burning inside of you. After each accomplishment is reached, the fire dwindles for a moment, but very soon it rekindles itself, forcing you toward the next accomplishment. Your relentless need for achievement will likely always be with you. You may need to learn to live with this whisper of discontent. Discontent may be augmented by your need to take ownership for work you commit to. If for some reason you cannot do what you have said you would, you automatically start to look for ways to make it up to others. Excuses and rationalizations are totally unacceptable. This conscientiousness, this near obsession for doing things right, and your impeccable ethics, combine to create your reputation as a dependable person. In all of your work you tend to see that your work has ultimate meaning. Your faith is strong. It sustains you and your close friends in the face of life's disappointments and obstacles. You view your work and relationships as having eternal value. You can give others comfort that there is a purpose beyond the moment.
Last updated: October
10, 2001 |
