Working with Students: the Student Affairs Learning Agenda

The NDSU Student Affairs Learning Agenda is comprised of six principles intended to educate students in all settings to:

• Lead: Provide opportunities to explore and develop leadership skills which prepare students to be effective leaders in a changing world.

• Serve: Embrace the value of ensuring that other people's needs are served. By working to meet the needs of others, individuals develop meaningful associations and create positive social change.

• Negotiate and Resolve Conflict: Learn to resolve conflict through understanding differences, value systems and lifestyles. Open communication helps foster tolerance and appreciation of diverse perspectives.

• Execute Tasks to Completion: Utilize skills and knowledge to complete projects and tasks. Students are empowered to plan, implement and assess programs and services for the student body.

• Function Collaboratively: Learn to work for a common purpose as an individual and as a team, and to understand the process of how a complex organization or institution functions.

• Participate as Committed Citizens of the Community: Recognize what it means to be an active, responsible citizen of the university and the greater community. Community is defined as "Where members are aware that their individual decisions affect others. A place where members are not indifferent toward one another." (Keeling, 1998)

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