Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, CSU, Chico
Learning
The heart and essence of the division of Academic Affairs is the learning process: the active collaboration among a community of diverse students, faculty and staff that enables learning opportunities that connect classroom instruction, co-curricular experiences and public service. We purposefully integrate liberal and applied learning to provide all our students with the knowledge, skills, and habits that form the basis for life-long learning, civic engagement, and enlightened service in a diverse world society.
CSU, Chico, above all else, is a center for active and lifelong learning and structures what it does on the basis of the ‘learning paradigm.' We exist to produce learning; we want our students to learn and succeed. We focus on the total education experience of our students and we recognize the learning environment as larger than the classroom.
See Robert B. Barr and John Tagg, From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education, Change, 27 (6), pp. 13-25 for details on the learning paradigm.
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