Through engaging students in a systematic support network of AWA 101 instructors who have a teaching and advising role, students will develop positive attitudes that lead to productive behaviors that promote academic success. These behaviors would include, but are not limited to, the following:
Strong commitment to the goal of graduation
Realistic view of academic expectations
High self-efficacy
Feelings of self-worth
Internal "locus-of-control"
Willingness to seek help
Adaptation to change (e.g. personal growth and development)
Application of time management principles
Willingness to address areas of weakness
Willingness to work with other students (e.g. peer mentors, group study)
Positive view toward educators and respect for the academic community
Student engagement binds students to each other and to the institution and promotes positive attitudes related to meaningful learning activities.
Student engagement is also faculty and staff engagement: a pledge between students and faculty/staff that implies mutual trust, understanding, and responsibilities. The attitude implicit in this statement is recognition among all stakeholders on campus that social, political, and economic factors in our contemporary society continuously impact and change the profile of young people and the ways they learn, and that the KSU community must respond differently. Our academic community must be ready to adapt to the new ways that our young participate in life and learning and adopt changes that will foster learning.
A professor with attitude engages students in learning through engaged teaching.
“Attitude” encompasses the faculty's commitment to positive, constructive methods of teaching that improve students' engagement in learning.
Faculty must lead the change. The current 18-year-old student arriving on KSU's campus learns best through teamwork, experiential learning, structure, and technology. Faculty need to recognize that our new generation of student learners is more accustomed to technological media and personal and social interaction through it than previous generations. In addition, educators like Howard Gardner have shown that there are multiple intelligences that exist in student populations and that emphasis on one or
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