Enriching Educational Experiences Benchmark Items

• Practicum, internship, field experience, co-op experience or clinical assignment
• Community service or volunteer work
• Foreign language coursework
• Study abroad
• Independent study or self-designed major
• Culminating senior experience (comprehensive exam, capstone course, thesis, project, etc.)
• Participating in co-curricular activities (organizations, publications, student government, sports, etc.)
• Had serious conversations with students who have different religious beliefs, political opinions or personal values
• Had serious conversations with students of a different race or ethnicity
• Campus environment encourages contact among students from different economic, social, and racial or ethnic backgrounds
• Used electronic technology (list-serve, chat group, Internet, etc.) to discuss or complete an assignment
• Participate in a learning community or some other formal program where groups of students take two or more classes together