About BTtoP:

Goals

Goal 1:

To explore the connection of forms of engaged learning to the health of students with the objective of increasing the full and healthy development of each learner, and the fostering of productive interrelationships among learning, individual realization, and the forming and sustaining of a civic society.

Goal 2:

To increase the number of campuses that effectively address these issues; to provide resources to help them to do so; and to assist campuses consider additional ways to prevent or intervene in responding to incidences of student mental-health related problems and abusive behaviors.

Goal 3:

To encourage greater utilization of the fundamental academic strengths of institutions to address the intellectual, emotional, and civic development of students. To encourage cross-campus discussions and the valuing of the interdependency of student affairs and academic affairs.

Goal 4:

To increase the involvement of faculty in changing the practices and culture of the academy to focus on teaching and learning methods that contribute to students’ success as well as their health and civic development.

Goal 5:

To increase the involvement of students in bringing about these changes – on campuses and in the communities that they will form and affect.

Goal 6:

To increase institutional attention and commitment to these effects including the creation of systems of support, reward, and maintenance that value them.