Scotty's Thrive Guide

Scotty’s Thrive Guide is utilized by Residential Education, in collaboration with the Division of Student Affairs, to create an intentional, holistic learning environment for all students. By living on campus, students will be able to engage in a living and learning community that promotes Scholarly Engagement, Self-Authorship, positive Community Engagement, and Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Through this our intention is to ensure our residents are able to thrive in a complex multicultural world.

Educational Priority

UCR Students will engage in inclusive educational experiences to thrive.

Community Engagement

Community engagement offers both on and off-campus opportunities that enhance students’ collegiate experience. It fosters leadership skills, effective communication, and personal growth while encouraging positive contributions to the community. Students embrace “Highlander Pride” as they connect deeply with their academic journey and the world around them.

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI)

JEDI encourages reflection on how personal experiences shape our understanding of stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, and oppression. It empowers students to cultivate compassionate empathy and move from understanding others' experiences to taking meaningful action for change. By providing frameworks for advocacy, allyship, and social change, JEDI fosters the creation of a more equitable and just society.

Scholarly Engagement

Scholarly engagement at UCR supports students as they invest energy in research and enrichment opportunities while developing the skills needed to overcome academic challenges. It emphasizes the importance of meeting well-being needs, including food, housing, mental health, and more to achieve scholarly goals. By fully utilizing campus resources, students can enhance their social, psychological, and physical well-being as they work toward degree completion.

Self-Authorship

Self-authorship includes being able to make decisions based on one’s personal values and beliefs, which becomes essential as students progress through their college career. It involves engaging in collaborative experiences that enhance both individual contributions and collective understanding. Ultimately, self-authorship empowers you to embrace diverse perspectives and pursue learning experiences that drive your personal and professional development.

Learning Outcomes

Community Engagement
- Students will be able to explore opportunities that enhance their collegiate experience.
- Students will engage in behaviors that positively contribute to the world around them.
- Students will be able to explore their ability for leadership through different avenues on and off campus.
- Students will be able to develop personal strategies for better communication in social settings.
- Students will have a sense of “Highlander Pride” which connects with their collegiate experience.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI)
- Students will be able to examine and/or explore their personal identities and how they intersect and shape who they are.
- Students will be able to reflect on and articulate a historical and current contextual understanding of others’ identities and how underrepresented groups are and have been stereotyped, as well as how they (have) experience(d) prejudice, discrimination, and oppression.
- Students will be able to actively demonstrate compassionate empathy for the lived experiences of those with differing identities than them from an individualized perspective on social impact.
- Students will be able to advocate for, uplift other’s voices, and employ strategies to create social change to enact an equitable and just society from a holistic and systemic impact.
Scholarly Engagement
- Students will develop skills to overcome academic challenges so they can achieve their scholarly goals.
- Students will be able to identify how having their primary well-being needs met affects the achievement of their scholarly goals.
- Students will be able to access and utilize campus resources to assist them in the achievement of their scholarly goals.
Self-Authorship
- Students will be able to describe their personal responsibility for their values and beliefs through continuous self-reflection and exploration.
- Students will be able to make decisions based on their personal values and beliefs.
- Students will identify and participate in collaborative learning.
- Students will be able to engage in discussions involving values, beliefs, and perspectives different from their own.
- Students will be able to explore learning experiences that will enhance their personal and professional development.

For questions on Scotty’s Thrive Guide, email reslife@ucr.edu.

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