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The SPACE
The SPACE at Wofford College is a department designed to aid students in building the professional skills necessary to enter graduate schools and the workforce after college. The SPACE is divided into five main programs: Prepare, Impact, Launch, Consult, and Explore.
The Space to Prepare
The Space to Prepare coordinates and runs three main programs at Wofford: Career Services, The Sophomore Experience, and The Institute. The goal of Career Services is to provide professional skills coaching and career strategies development to Wofford students looking to make the most of their opportunities. Career Services aids with resume building, internship and job applications, and interview coaching.
The Sophomore Experience is a fast-paced, 24-hour event designed to answer all of the pertinent questions about choosing a major, finding internships, networking, and more. Held just before the beginning of Wofford’s spring semester, The Sophomore Experience also teaches the essential skills of creative and innovative thinking and the tactics of negotiation.
The Institute is a one-of-a-kind program created to give students of all majors in-depth professional skills development in a real-world setting. Participants in the five week summer program spend five days a week learning by doing, receiving in-depth instruction and hands-on practice. Students who successfully complete this certificate-earning program will have a significant advantage when launching their career due to the professional skills learned throughout the course. These skills include:
- Project management
- Technology proficiency
- Presentation skills
- Teamwork skills
- Design thinking
- Time management
- Negotiation
- Leadership tactics
The Space to Impact
The Space to Impact is a competitive four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students that teaches new essential skills like design thinking, entrepreneurship and the consultative approach to problem solving, all through projects-based experience. Impact member projects often address an issue or problem on campus or in the wider world and outline a possible solution. Projects can be something local, like starting a concession stand or organizing a new student group, or it may be something a bit more global, like raising funds to help build a medical clinic in Malawi or benefit earthquake victims in Haiti. The amount of work required is roughly equivalent to taking an extra academic course. The Space to Impact works together with The Space to Launch, discussed below.
The Space to Launch
The Space to Launch is another four-year scholarship program for incoming and current Wofford students; the Launch and Impact programs work together to learn the essential skills listed above. The Launch program is oriented around building ideas for businesses and startups, just as The Space to Impact is centered around project development.
The Space to Consult
In the Space to Consult, students use their skills to help a company by participating in a team consulting project. The largest benefit of engaging students in consulting projects is the hands on, real-world experience that participants gain; The Space to Consult allows students to use their skills to solve real-world problems in an environment similar to that of the professional world that graduates will be immersed in after college.
The Space to Explore
The Space to Explore is a program that creates unique internship opportunities for Wofford students. Each year, Explore sets up internships in a different BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The Explore program also sends students as interns to the Aspen Institute.
The Center for Innovation and Learning
The Center for Innovation and Learning aims to design, develop and integrate resources that enrich learning and teaching at Wofford, and to provide a locus for conversations, both within the Wofford community and with other institutions, about excellence and innovation in a residential liberal arts education.
Purposeful integration of research, curricular innovation, and support in The Center for Innovation and Learning is a step toward the academic synthesis a 21st century liberal arts college can offer both its own community members and society at large.
The mission at The Center for Innovation and Learning is four-fold: to support innovation in teaching, provide an environment for the support of teaching and learning, to support on-campus writing initiatives in curricular and co-curricular programming, and to assess for the effectiveness of innovations undertaken in the service of student learning.
The Center for Innovation and Learning has two divisions that are directed towards their mission. These divisions are comprised of different faculty members that focus on innovation in pedagogical practice and to nurture innovation in the classroom.
Innovations in Teaching and Learning
This specific division approaches technology as an enhancement and aid to teaching. Colleagues will be informed of the latest in technological hardware and software and provide sustained instruction, tutorials, and workshops that present useful application of new resources. CIL will endeavor to furnish those resources that faculty need in order to implement their innovative experiments.
CIL works with faculty who want to incorporate technology into their courses and teaching. They established Tools and Toys lunches, which are built around faculty experimentation (successful and otherwise) that focus on the latest in the application of technology to teaching and learning and will continue with six presentations, three in the fall and three in the spring of the academic year.
Institutional Research and Assessment
The CIL institutional research team collaborates with faculty to assess for improvement in student learning and teaching effectiveness. They disseminate assessment results to appropriate publics – students, faculty, alumni and partner with faculty who wish to present and publish in the scholarship of teaching. Research findings from NSSE and from internal Wofford assessments are made available to appropriate campus constituencies on an annual basis with a view towards providing faculty and departments with understandable and actionable data that reflect the student’s learning experience.
Wofford College's Landscape Canvas
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