The mission of the Outdoor Education Center is to provide the °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ community with educational, recreational, and social opportunities that focus on local communities and global environments. Using the outdoors as a classroom, our programs strive to offer co-curricular outdoor experiences that develop leadership skills and promote responsibility, while maintaining balance between personal, professional, and academic pursuits.
Our goals are to:
- Encourage direct engagement with the outdoors
- Provide resources for academic experiences both on and off-campus
- Provide student leadership and development through training and experiential education
Through these engagements we strive to facilitate the following:
- Teach safety, good judgment, and leadership skills
- Nurture an environmental ethic
- Develop technical outdoor skills
- Promote health, well being, and sustainable lifestyles
- Encourage holistic perspectives on contemporary issues through co-curricular and interdisciplinary programs
- Foster meaningful interaction between faculty, staff, students, and other community members
- Facilitate the organization of independent trips in terms of training, planning, advice, and equipment
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