Bringing people together to create learning communities is a vital part of human nature. No matter what program you chose, our overarching goal is to bring inquiring minds together. We characterize these learning communities with the following set of distinctive values
• A lively intellectual life of inquiry
• A recognition of individual differences that are prized and respected.
• Where diversity is emphasized as an avenue to creative innovations and perspectives.
• a community in which members are encouraged for their achievements and strongly supported when they need assistance.
• It is an environment that provides opportunities for leadership and collaboration.
• It is a community that shares a common belief that creative friction is necessary at times in order to develop the necessary skills of collaboration in solving community problems.
• A learning community requires honesty, high integrity, and personal responsibility of its members and expects that they hold one another accountable for living up to these values.
• It is an environment that is active and varied in the context of healthy fun, but that is also spontaneous and finds joy in the unexpected.
• It shares a belief that while the community may find strength in its relative isolation, it can not accomplish its mission without meaningful connections that link it to the global community and to the ideals of social justice.
• And finally the community must celebrate it's legacy. Affirmation of the Expedition Club's history gives value and meaning to our current mission.
