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 26-27 Community Learning Goals
Engendering Better Science and Engineering
Improving our work by keeping gender in mind
Excellence in engineering depends on our ability to understand and respond to the needs of the people who design, build, and use our work. This learning goal invites us to examine how gender shapes the experiences of both those who create engineering solutions and those who use them. Taking gender into account can help us build more innovative teams, design better products, and foster a more supportive environment for everyone.
Mentorship as Community
From individual connection to a culture of belonging
Mentoring is a reciprocal relationship that provides support, bridges social divides, expands networks, and transfers knowledge in every direction. Taken together, these relationships build a culture of inclusion and belonging. This learning goal encourages us to see mentoring as a core practice at SEAS. By investing in mentoring relationships, we can support professional development, simplify navigating institutional structures, and weave a stronger, more connected SEAS.
Digital Accessibility for an Inclusive SEAS
Enabling access to SEAS’s digital spaces
Digital accessibility means designing, creating, and maintaining our documents, websites, applications, and tools so that people with disabilities can use them fully. This learning goal supports our efforts to make accessibility a central element of the digital content we create. By improving our accessible practices from alt text to document structure, we expand access to knowledge, support colleagues and students with disabilities, and improve the digital experience for our entire community.