Proctor’s mission statement expresses our ultimate goal of, “Students graduating understanding the values of honesty, compassion, respect, and responsibility, proceeding with confidence, and with strategies to become lifelong learners and thoughtful contributors to their communities.”
We seek to achieve this portion of our mission statement through the totality of our programming (academics, arts, athletics, off-campus studies, service learning trips, residential life), however, some classes focus specifically on tangible ways students can immediately impact their communities at large.
For the past seven years, Proctor’s Social Science Department has offered a Social Activism class whose curriculum encourages student driven social actions resulting from the class which both inform the greater community of social injustices and teach students to research, understand and mobilize around a cause.
This year, the Social Science Department will offer a course with similar themes as Gregor Makechnie ‘90, P’17 teaches a new Social Entrepreneurship course. Social Entrepreneurship as a curriculum capitalizes on two of Proctor’s greatest attributes: 1) the propensity to graduate confident, creative, entrepreneurial personalities, and 2) the desire of those individuals to make a difference in the world based on their experiences at Proctor.
Last spring, this blog discussed
the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive and well at Proctor. This course adds yet another layer of depth to our desire to prepare students for lives of influence. Above, Social Entrepreneurship students take part in a hunger banquet at lunch on Thursday as they begin to explore the challenges facing different regions around the world and how microlending and investment in those regions can spur improvements to quality of life.
Wednesday night, the Social Entrepreneurship class welcomes two speakers to campus who have committed their lives to the discipline.
Freedom in Creation founder and President Andrew Briggs as well as
Gulu University Economics Department head Peter Odoch will visit campus and present their work to the community.
As Gregor Makechnie shared with the community, “Freedom in Creation's mission dovetails with many components of our school's mission and values: sustainability, compassion, respect, responsibility; and with many components of our curriculum: art, human rights, economics, history, environmental responsibility, experiential learning.”
We encourage anyone who desires to join us in the Wilkins Meeting House Wednesday night at 6:15 pm. To learn more about Freedom in Creations, watch the short video above.
