Community Learning Goals
Each year, SEAS adopts community learning goals that invite students, faculty, researchers, and staff to engage with themes that deepen our understanding of each other and the world around us. Through events and discussions, these goals promote shared learning experiences that enrich our academic pursuits with broader understandings of our cultural and historical contexts.
SEAS AY 25-26 Community Learning Goals
Embracing Neurodiversity
Celebrating Diverse Minds to Further Inclusion and Growth.
Neurodiversity recognizes the wide range of ways people perceive, think about, and interact with the world around them. It includes individuals whose cognitive processing diverges from what is considered typical. This learning goal helps us better recognize, value, and support varied cognitive styles within our community. By cultivating an environment where different ways of thinking and perceiving the world are understood, we will advance inclusion and create spaces where everyone can thrive at SEAS.
Celebrating Our Multinational Community
Our strength lies in our interconnectedness; together, we collaborate and innovate.
We are a multinational community of students, scholars, and staff, where different cultures, values, and perspectives come together to enrich everything we do. Living and working in this environment enables us to draw from a wide range of experiences, enhancing our collective efforts. This learning goal encourages us to value our unique backgrounds, support one another as colleagues, and deepen our collaboration. By recognizing and harnessing the strengths that emerge from the interaction of global perspectives, we can create a more connected, dynamic community that enhances our leadership, encourages innovation, and drives positive change.
Fostering a Culture of Pluralism
Advancing Dialogue and Collaboration Across Differences.
Pluralism is an active engagement with the enduring diversity of beliefs, values, and identities within society. It goes beyond coexistence by emphasizing dialogue, mutual understanding, and respectful exchanges across differences. This learning goal encourages us to embrace the notion that differences—whether cultural, religious, political, or philosophical—are not obstacles to be eliminated but realities to be engaged through sustained, inclusive, and constructive interaction. As both a cultural ethos and civic practice, pluralism helps us honor human dignity while embracing the irreducible plurality of the modern world.