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First-year students explore values through BGeXperience BOWLING GREEN, O.--Nearly 325 new Bowling Green State University students—almost three times as many as last year--arrived
on campus Wednesday (Aug. 20) to begin exploring a values-added college education.
They are participants in BGeXperience, which offers first-year students the opportunity for critical thinking about values.
Although similar programs can be found at some small liberal-arts colleges, a values education program on the scale of BGeXperience
is “definitely cutting edge,” says Dr. Bettina Shuford, a program associate and director of BGSU’s Center for Multicultural
and Academic Initiatives.
BGeXperience students are divided into small groups led by a faculty member, a student affairs staff professional and an upper-class
student. Each faculty member also teaches a BGeXperience First Year Course, a general education class in one of 16 subject
areas that covers the same material as a “regular” class section but which emphasizes learning critical thinking skills and
how to apply them to value conflicts within the subject area. The small classes are aimed at enhancing faculty-student interaction
and, in general, the transition to college.
Orientation will also include discussion of “The Laramie Project,” this year’s Common Reading Experience on campus.
BGeXperience participants are among roughly 2,000 BGSU students—many in programs for first-year students—who are reading the
Moises Kaufman play, which addresses the 1998 hate murder of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard and will be produced
later this fall by the University’s theatre department.
(Posted September 08, 2003 )
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