Expectations of
Students
LCSC students are expected to
communicate with precision through extensive writing and
speaking. Students will find that through such writing,
speaking, listening, computing and library/research
assignments, the quality of their college education will
be significantly enhanced.
Students who engage fully in these fundamental
experiences will attain greater intellectual, emotional
and personal rewards. These strong educational
foundations will enable students to:
1. Develop the competencies
needed to fulfill career objectives;
2. Gain a general education that promotes
continual personal growth and life-long learning,
enabling students to effectively communicate, understand
and work with a variety of people from differing
cultures;
3. Develop the ability to effectively cope with
ambiguity and interact with the constantly changing
world;
4. Develop linkages between the liberal arts and
the professions;
5. Acquire basic knowledge of human beings,
societies, governments and the physical world;
6. Assist and participate with others to examine,
maintain and improve the human existence;
7. Acquire life-long skills and interests that
continually develop aesthetic, cultural and intellectual
interests;
8. Acquire an understanding of one’s personal
value system and its relationship to actions. |
To attain optimum outcomes at LCSC, students
should:
1. Come
to the college prepared to explore value systems and
make personal changes that will accommodate a broad
view of life and the human condition;
2. Have the learning skills necessary to
satisfactorily complete entry level course work or be
able to identify for personal improvement college
support services needed to develop those skills;
3. Have the outlook that the quality and quantity
of effort devoted to education will directly affect
future personal and professional success;
4. Understand that college provides the
opportunity to lay the foundation for the rest of one’s
life; and
5. Use this catalog as a resource when designing,
planning and implementing appropriate degree programs.
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Students who approach
college with these expectations attain greater
intellectual, emotional, personal and financial rewards.
