Celebrating Strengths at Calvin

February 26 , 2007 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Summary: A grant to Calvin from the state of Michigan will help first-year
students use their strengths for majors, careers and leadership opportunities.

Full story see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/celebrating-strengths.htm

“Celebrating Strengths,” a new program from the office of Student Academic
Services (SAS) at Calvin College, will enable students to identify their chief
character assets and to channel those strengths into their majors, careers and
leadership opportunities.

The program, funded by an $83,618 grant from the Select Student Support
Services (4S) Program administered by the State of Michigan Department of Labor
and Economic Growth, is a partnership of the SAS and Career Development offices
at Calvin.

“Students, first-year students especially, often don’t know what their
strengths are,” says Andrea Kitomary, an SAS academic counselor and
Celebrating Strengths project director. “It is our hope that by implementing
the Celebrating Strengths program we will cultivate a campus climate that
embraces students’ talents from the moment they come to campus and helps them
to build those talents into strengths throughout their entire college
experience.”

The core of Celebrating Strength is the Clifton Strengths Finder, an
assessment tool that allows a person to hone in on his or her five main
“themes” (or talent groups).

To qualify for the program, a student must have a GPA of 2.5 or below or have
received financial aid through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA), making Celebrating Strengths available to a wide pool of Calvin
students.

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Received on Mon Feb 26 13:04:35 2007