Champlain College Competencies
What Are The College Competencies?
The Champlain College Competences are a set of twelve skills that embody the career-ready and life-prepared graduate.
The competencies ensure personal growth through coursework, extracurricular activities, and work experiences
Champlain College created the competencies to ensure that every student leaves prepared for after-college life.
Developing these Competencies will help with one’s….
Professional Career
Your program skills may get you your first job, the competencies are the skills that get you promoted.
Personal Self / Independence
By thinking of these skills as developmental and lifelong, students take charger of their own learning beyond college.
Civic Life
These skills enable you to be more active in your community. They are habits of mind, ways of thinking and areas of knowledge that are critical to functioning in our ever evolving world.
Competencies are the skills that employers consistently say they want to see in their new hires.
According to a recent online survey of 1,010 employers.
The percentage of Employers who want competency-based skills as reported in Ashley P. Finley, The Career-Ready Graduate, 2023.
81%
Oral Communication
80%
Working Effectively in Teams
79%
Critical Thinking
77%
Working with People from different backgrounds
76%
Creative and Innovative Thinking
74%
Complex Problem Solving
Champlain’s Promise to every Student
Champlain College’s Goal:
90% of Champlain Seniors will reach the proficient level of every competency by the time they graduateAt Champlain, Competencies are everywhere but not all at once!
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In Academic Classes
Across all majors and programs, the competencies are Champlain’s institutional learning outcomes. Thus each class at Champlain should help students cultivate a few of these skills, depending on the class.
What will this look like?
Faculty and staff implement some or all of the competencies into their work with students. Using guiding questions, rubrics and reflection, students, faculty and staff can measure progress in competency development.
Outside of the Classroom
These skills are not only developed within academic course. The College’s collaborative approach fosters the competencies beyond the classroom. Further development can happen in non-academic learning experiences around/off campus.
Learn MoreSome these opportunities include:
- Internships & Work Experiences
- Student activities & Clubs
- Residential Life
- Travel Experiences
Funding is available to students for competency related activities.
