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very Student Development program at Denison provides students with substantive content and knowledge, with the intention that students can integrate and apply that knowledge to solve problems or generate new ideas. Our orientation programs introduce students to campus, conveying information essential to their collegiate success. Three examples are explored here: June Orientation, Pre-Orientation for Students NT LEARNIN LOPME Coming from Abroad, and Paving the Way. We also explore EVE D NT DE U programs that offer opportunities for students to ST exercise and improve cognitive skills—not only to think critically, but to engage in reflection, analysis, synthesis, and reasoning, and NT LEARNING O Cr UDE T i S tic to consider the ethics of their ideas. E al thi OR nk C ing Leadership positions like the University Re fle cti ve thi Programming Council, Head Residents nki ng Effe ctiv e re and Restorative Justice Facilitators aso Cri nin g tic T Intell challenge students to exercise and h ink al Flexi ectual NT LEARNI bility ing NG DE U T refine their critical thinking skills— S Emotio ous En Ac cognitivnal/ e m to solve problems, to innovate and integra gag t o ing tion Analytic k create, and to reason. Thinkin al Identity/ g
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