This project is just one of the many efforts underway at OIT to provide improved services to its students. This effort promotes a connection-oriented learning environment where academic and personal relationships become the fiber of which the learning process is woven. To promote community and team building, the CSET LC went on a whitewater raft trip down the Upper Klamath River after the first week of Fall term classes. Approximately 25 students and faculty participated. At that moment, each of us realized that an individual would safely pass though it only with the help of the others in their raft.
Few things can promote personal bonding better than facing an exciting situation together .
For the LC as a whole, however, what was established relationally in one day would otherwise have been impossible. The rafting activity provided the wellspring for a river of possibilities. ACAD 101 class, LC students were required to write a letter to future CSET LC students. I probably would not have got as good of a start as I did. I would say that we as a community were able to help each other out and form study groups.