Staff Policy D-101.01
Institutional Effectiveness Criterion: Scholarship

General Education Outcomes

General Education at Northwestern Michigan College promotes the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to function effectively in a changing world. General Education fosters intellectual curiosity, essential to lifelong learning.

To ensure students experience the benefits of our philosophy of general education, the faculty of Northwestern Michigan College commits to instilling these practices throughout the curriculum.

1. Communication
   Students will practice effective communication with an awareness of audience and a sense of purpose.
2. Critical Thinking
   Students will skillfully conceptualize, apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information gathered from observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication.
3. Quantitative Reasoning
   Students will accurately use numbers, symbols, measurements, properties, and the relationships of quantities to make sound decisions, judgments, and/or predictions.
4. Social Responsibility
   Students will cultivate greater understanding of social complexity and cultural diversity to prepare them to contribute to social justice and/or environmental sustainability in regional, national, or global communities. 

If any provision(s) of this policy or set of bylaws conflicts with laws applicable to Northwestern Michigan College, including the Community College Act of 1966, the Freedom of Information Act, or the Open Meetings Act, as each may be amended from time to time, such laws shall control and supersede such provision(s).