我们的使命
At 萨拉·劳伦斯 College our mission is to graduate world citizens who are diverse in every definition of the word, 谁会冒智力和创造性的风险, 跨越学科界限的人, and who are able to sustain exceptional academic discipline within a framework of humanistic values and concern for community. Our unique educational practices provide our students with the opportunity to study intensively in small classes, 独立研究从事独立研究, and to spend unparalleled amounts of time working one-on-one with an exceptional faculty of scholars and artists, 创建学生自己设计的量身定制的学术课程. Our goal is to instill a lifelong intellectual curiosity and nimbleness, as well as the confidence and entrepreneurial spirit to embrace a broad range of personal, 专业, 以及创造性的追求. We thus prepare students to think and act independently so that they will tackle the problems of, 茁壮成长, 一个复杂而迅速发展的世界.
我们的价值
For creative and intellectually motivated students who want to make their mark on the world, 萨拉·劳伦斯 offers a unique approach to 学习 and teaching designed to produce capable, 自信, 创造性的21st 富有想象力的世纪公民, 开车, 以及改变自己和他人生活的技能.
萨拉·劳伦斯's approach inculcates the entrepreneurial habits of exploration, 冒险, and invention that graduates will need to find solutions for which no models currently exist. A 萨拉·劳伦斯 education imparts the skills—as well as the courage—to think both creatively and analytically; work both independently and collaboratively; and act with both confidence and sensitivity in a complex and ever-evolving world.
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学生们能够…… |
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我们跨越学科界限, 给予艺术同等的优先权, 科学与人文, 理论与实践相结合 |
以更深入、更广泛的方式探讨问题, incorporating creative and expressive modes into their 学习, and developing deeper insights into the complex connections between the subjects they are studying |
学生成为世界上创造性的问题解决者, outside-of-the-box thinkers who approach problems in innovative and substantive ways |
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Students design their own course of study and choose which classes to take with guidance from their Dons |
To feel more personally invested in an education they can link to their interests, 经历, 和能力. 学生成为独立学习者. |
Students graduate with the capacity to be accountable for their own development |
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We require that students design a personalized study project for each seminar |
To more deeply explore an area that most interests them and take intellectual and creative risks |
Students develop skills in envisioning an endeavor and managing their time and resources to produce results, allowing them to become practical and effective agents in the world They become skilled at crafting and managing complex projects that produce rich results |
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Our model is built around small seminars, studios, and workshops |
To work more intensively and interactively with their professors and fellow students; engage more deeply and personally with the material |
Students become persuasive presenters, and skilled collaborators |
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Our model is built upon direct faculty participation with students |
有更深刻和有益的教师互动 |
教师 enjoy a continuously challenging and changing teaching environment, and the rewards of playing a primary role in student development |
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教师 put teaching and student development on equal footing with their scholarship and creative work |
To study with faculty who value working with students and devote their considerable 专业 skills to teaching |
Students have a vital personal model for intellectual inquiry and growth |
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教师 teach the subjects of greatest interest to them while assuring a dynamic and varied curriculum for students We embrace the importance of diversity in all dimensions of college life |
To study with faculty who are highly engaged with their scholarly and creative work and energized by what they are teaching To encounter peers from different backgrounds and gain the ability to work constructively with and learn from diverse colleagues |
学生们带着新鲜的气息离开, continuously renewable sense of the value of critical thinking and creative inquiry Students are prepared to be engaged citizens and vital contributors in the highly mobile context of contemporary global society |
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我们的研究生课程嵌入, 并充分利用, 我们独特的跨学科教学法 |
To pursue specialized training while enjoying broader intellectual growth |
学生在同化的过程中获得专业技能, 如果他们这样选择的话, 丰富的文科教育 |
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We go beyond the traditional liberal arts model of majors and minors, 而是在引导学生建构严谨的同时进行, 量身定制的跨学科课程 |
毕业时要对自己的适应能力充满信心, 并在其中茁壮成长, 这是一个需要各种新的、多变的技能组合的世界 |
Students have the capacity to achieve success in a continuously evolving post-college environment |
我们的愿景
Build on our strengths to ensure 萨拉·劳伦斯 College’s leadership as a unique and influential model for 21st 世纪教育:
- 首选大学 为一群充满智慧和抱负的人, 充满激情的, 有创造力的学生, 本科生和研究生, who are engaged in their communities and want to make a mark on their world.
- 谁的骄傲，附属校友参与 提供价值的支持性网络 to one another, and to their communities, locally and around the world.
- 专业黄金标准 for outstanding scholars and artists who are committed to teaching, 学习, 以及学生的发展.
- 国际知名和受人尊敬 for its unique educational approach that produces graduates whose creative problem-solving abilities and enterprising spirit make an impact that is vastly greater than their numbers.
- 经济可持续发展, with the depth of resources and 专业 staff to sustain its mission and expand its impact