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In 2010, President Gordon kicked off Defiance College’s Imagine Campaign where he asked the Defiance Community to Imagine the following initiatives:
Cultural/Performing Arts Initiative in which every Defiance College student has an opportunity before graduating to attend a wide range of mind-broadening cultural experiences such as symphonies, operas, ballets, musicals, and art and science museums.
DC to D.C. – An initiative in which every Defiance College student has an opportunity before graduating to experience our nation’s history firsthand, traveling to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia or other places of historical significance.
DC EDventures – A Domestic Travel initiative in which every Defiance College student has an opportunity before graduating to travel for 7-10 days domestically with a faculty member for an enrichment experience related to the student’s major.
DC Global is an opportunity for every entering full-time freshman who completes the full four-year program at DC to travel to a foreign country during their years at Defiance. These international experiences take place during the junior or senior. They could be a course-embedded experience, a faculty-designed trip, a project of your own design through the McMaster School, an Honors trip, or as a scholarship to help pay travel costs for a semester or year-long study abroad program.
Learning Objectives for DC Cultural and Performing Arts
- Provide opportunities the encourage students to develop an appreciation of the importance of history, literature and the arts for understanding the diverse and complex world in which we live
- Provide opportunities that encourage students to demonstrate an understanding of how the arts help us to understand the human experience
Learning Objectives for DC to D.C.
- For students to become familiar with, experience, and develop an appreciation for our nation's history, by traveling to and exploring renowned points of historical and political interest.
- To provide students with opportunities that develop their understanding of how national history affects and is affected by local, state, and international issues.
- To provide students with opportunities that encourage their sensitivity to the cultural, religious, geographic, and ethnic diversity that has contributed to the development of American culture.
- To develop basic skills necessary for domestic travel.
Learning Objectives for DC EDventures
- Expand upon material learned in the classroom in an experiential fashion
- Provide opportunities for professional or field experiences related to programmatic, major, or course content
Learning Objectives for DC Global
- Expand students’ knowledge related to the people, culture, history, geography, social institutions and of countries around the world.
- Provide opportunities that encourage the development of sensitivity, appreciation, and understanding of different cultures.
- Provide opportunities that encourage both disciplinary and interdisciplinary reflection to enhance a personal understanding of intercultural competence.
- Develop the basic competencies necessary for international travel.
March 8 – 10: DC Chamber Singers attend ACDA Conference, 24 students and 3 faculty and staff will be traveling to the Association of Choral Directors Conference in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. They will have the opportunity to observe multiple choral ensembles and to reflect on the performances through follow-up discussion.
March 9 – 15: Alternative Spring Break – Civil Rights Tour, 12 students from various disciplines and 4 faculty and staff leaders will be traveling locations key to the civil rights movement – Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
March 21 – 24: Criminal Justice Society traveling to Washington D.C., 47 students and faculty leaders will be taking criminal justice, forensic science, and digital forensic science majors to experience the field of criminal justice as well as the cultural arts in the nation’s capital through touring various agencies and museums.
April 8 – 13: Business Students traveling to Portland, Oregon, 8 students with 2 business faculty will be visiting Nike, Columbia, Tillamook Cheese, the Portland Trailblazers, the Portland Timbers, and Cannon Beach and other Portland businesses. Students will attain field experiences within their particular area of business by interviewing and shadowing business leaders in the Portland area.
Imagine Initiatives : Application Packets – same including the links to various proposals and applications
Application Deadlines for the Imagine Initiatives for the 2012-13 academic year will be announced shortly.
Proposals will be evaluated by a committee consisting of both faculty and staff.
The Committee will provide the Provost with its recommendations; however, the Provost will be responsible for the final approval of all trips.
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