Students: As your professor, I support learner centered education and thereby have made a commitment to:
  • Help you pursue meaningful goals.
  • Make learning meaningful and fun.
  • Enhance your ability to set learning goals and experience success in meeting them.
  • Involve you actively in learning.
  • Broaden ways for you to receive and/or present information.
  • Contribute to higher level thinking.
  • Enable you to engage in activities that promote student choice and responsibility.
  • Make the learning environment supportive and positive.
  • Increase your level of motivation.
  • Support your curiosity and intrinsic interest in learning.
  • Contribute to meeting individual learner needs.
  • Enable you to integrate and organize knowledge in personally meaningful ways.
  • Provide a variety of settings for learning.
  • Help diminish competition in learning.
  • Foster cooperation in learning.
  • Empower you to meet your learning needs.
  • Help you to increase the quality of your relationships.
  • Broaden your appreciation for the diversity among people.
  • Make the learning environment more responsive to your learning needs.
  • Help you to assume personal responsibility for learning.


ClimbOn!  Please raise questions and make suggestions along the way.  Among my many hopes for you:

      • Have a great academic year.
      • Make personal choices that are good for you.
      • Complete high quality academic work.
      Dr. Kathryn Holleque, Valley City State University Professor