Program Description
The Wofford College Success Initiative is a scholarship-supported, projects-based, student-led learning community that is grounded in the liberal arts.
It uses five essential building blocks in its developmental program:
- Scholarship support to attract and enable future leaders to attend Wofford College and to participate in the Success Initiative,
- Individual projects leading to personal development and enrichment, and team projects that require collaboration and cooperation with others,
- Student Leadership of all operations of the Success Initiative, and
- A learning community whose members form a cohort of future leaders,
- The liberal arts philosophy of education for its proven value in promoting visionary leadership and rational decision making. Among the core competencies are:
- Critical thinking,
- Communications,
- Knowledge of self and others,
- Creativity
- Collaborative problem solving.
Every individual project and team project is designed to exercise each of these core competencies.
While the Success Initiative is an academic program, participation in it does not carry academic credit. It complements the academic curriculum without replacing any part of it.
The five building blocks comprise a program that is unique in higher education. The Success Initiative is simple in design, yet rich in developmental opportunities. It has high conceptual structure, but great operational freedom for student development.