OSSB Cocurricular Learning Outcomes

UIC’s cocurricular learning assessment process uses five learning goals to guide understanding of how services facilitate purposeful, meaningful student learning through specific outcomes. This framework is available online here.

  • Utilize cognitive and studying strategies
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready
  • ·Develop and apply strategies for managing personal and organizational resources
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Self-Awareness
  • Strategically develop and pursue short- and long-term personal, educational, and professional goals
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Self-Awareness
  • Initiate and maintain healthy, mutually beneficial relationships
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Belonging
  • Articulate priorities regarding time management and effectively balance education, work and leisure time
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Skills to be Real World Ready
  • Identify, analyze, and interpret important problems, questions, and issues
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready
  • Develop an academic self-concept
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Belonging
  • Develop and apply strategies for managing personal and organizational resources
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Self-Awareness
  • Strategically develop and pursue short- and long-term personal, educational, and professional goals
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Self-Awareness
  • Seek help when needed
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Self-Awareness
  • Hold oneself accountable for personal, work, and social obligations
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Skills to be Real World Ready
  • Articulate priorities regarding time management and effectively balances education, work and leisure time
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Skills to be Real World Ready
  • Apply academic and co-curricular experiences to career planning process
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready 
  • Identity development
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Belonging
  • Assess, articulate, and acknowledge personal strengths and areas for growth
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness
  • Explore what guides their personal decision making
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness
  • Initiate and nurture relationships that are mutually satisfying
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Belonging
  • Identify cultural and institutional systems of power
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Skills to be Real World Ready
  • Acknowledge and challenge personal position within systems of power
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Self-Awareness
  • Communicate the value of volunteerism for personal and community empowerment
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Transformational Leadership, Self-Awareness
  • ·Develop an academic self-concept
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Belonging
  • Engage in behaviors and contribute to environments that promote personal health and wellness and reduce risk both personally and within the community
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Self-Awareness
  • Recognize and describe her/his own multifaceted cultural identity
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Belonging
  • Communicate the value of volunteerism for personal and community empowerment
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Transformational Leadership, Self-Awareness
  • Communicates effectively and conveys meaning by writing and speaking coherently and productively
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready
  • Meaningful relationship building. Initiates and nurtures relationships that are mutually satisfying
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Belonging
  • Applies academic and co-curricular experiences to career planning process
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready
  • Reflective thinking. Relates new knowledge to past understanding and experiences
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness
  • Identify, explore, and clarify values
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness
  • Understand, interpret and apply UIC academic policies & procedures and college degree requirements
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready 
  • Identify and utilize CHANCE and campus resources for personal and academic support
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready 
  • Develop educational success plans to progress toward graduation
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Self-Awareness 
  • Begin developing professional network. Develop network of prospective internship/employment opportunities
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Belonging
  • Demonstrate benefits of inclusion and diversity in campus programming. Continue to value own identity and cultural awareness of self and others. Recognize the connection and importance of civic engagement within campus and society
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Belonging, Self-Awareness
  • Through civic engagement, demonstrate a commitment to being change agents in their communities
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Transformational Leadership, Self-Awareness, Belonging 
  • Develop the tools to strengthen their research skills and apply the experience to the exploration of post-graduate pathways
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready 
  • Develop and apply strategies to build relationships that foster a sense of belonging in their transition to UIC and to achieve educational and career goals
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Belonging, Skills to be Real World Ready
  • Develop awareness of learning resources available for dual credit / dual enrollment courses
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready
  • Seek help when needed
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Self-Awareness
  • Strategically develop and pursue short- and long-term personal, educational, and professional goals
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Self-Awareness 
  • Identity development
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Belonging
  • Explore and engage in activities that inform interests and passions
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness
  • Recognize and describe her/his own multifaceted cultural identity
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Belonging
  • Identify, explore and clarify their values as informed by their interests and passions and career exploration process
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Skills to be Real World Ready
  • Connect academic skills to course content in order to meet course expectations
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready 
  • Demonstrate the ability to develop and apply strategies for managing personal resources to support transition to college as well as other personal and professional goals
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Skills to be Real World Ready, Self-Awareness
  • Develop and apply strategies for responsibly managing financial resources.
    Alignment with Learning GoalsSkills to be Real World Ready
  • Develop professional goals and engage in career exploration.
    Alignment with Learning GoalsSkills to be Real World Ready
  • Engage in leadership opportunities that will develop hard and soft skills.
    Alignment with Learning GoalsSkills to be Real World Ready, Self Awareness
  • Engage in cultural experiences that will enhance knowledge of one’s identified culture as well as the culture of others.
    Alignment with Learning Goals: Self-Awareness, Belonging