The range of co-curricular activities available at UC Davis is far too broad to allow for even an overview in a small space. In the dicussion of Criterion 2.9, we have already mentioned that the Internship and Career Center runs an extremely ambitious and effective internship program. It is worth emphasizing again that these co-curricular activities are among the most important ways that undergraduate students can get involved in research on campus, in industry, or in government agencies. An internship or job that involves research can lead to a presentation at the Undergraduate Research Conference. See the discussion in Standard 2.9 for the related links. We will discuss this much more extensively in our Educational Effectiveness report.

We turn now to another program that is particularly closely tied to our educational objectives: the Student Leadership Development Series which has the following stated objectives:

• Students will learn the value of campus and community involvement and develop an ethic of service.
• Students will develop a personal philosophy and set of operating principles based on an ethic of fairness, integrity, responsibility to self and others, and personal accountability.
• Students will develop demonstrable competencies in support of and related to their futures. These competencies include: oral and written communication, empathy, persuasion, and listening; appropriate means of conflict resolution and decision-making; and skills related to effective membership in groups and teams, including collaboration, compromise and consensus-building.
• Students will reflect upon their personal talents through appropriate training, coaching and mentoring; actual workplace experiences on and off-campus; and formal opportunities for self-assessment and purposeful feedback.
• Students will develop organizational and situational acumen as well as learn strategies to manage and effect change.
• Students will develop an appreciation for the complexities and richness afforded by pluralism along with the capacity to understand and respect the differences and commonalities brought by all members of the University community, the state and nation, and the world at large.

Since this program predates our new Educational Objectives but is closely tied to them, it reinforces our view that the statement of the Objectives merely codified priorities long shared by our faculty.

The links below give just a small sample of the wide variety of co-curricular programs at UC Davis.