SCUE believes that Penn's education should consider the broad spectrum of the national and international community. Our vision incorporates the inclusion of all viewpoints in shaping the educational presentations. The University should offer its students an education rooted in the understanding of concepts, not simply facts and data. Freshmen A curriculum which encourages intellectual thought depends on the enthusiasm of the students involved. Without interested students who are committed to an intellectual community from the outset, no curriculum or means of instruction will succeed in fulfilling the intellectual vision of the University.
Freshmen are thus vitally important to the creation of our desired environment.
Curricular initiatives will be successful with freshmen motivated towards intellectual discovery. Ideally, such students will be chosen through the admissions process. This motivation will continue to flourish as students are oriented to the Penn community through the programs previously outlined in this document. From the academic perspective, every freshmen should be oriented to an intellectual classroom experience through a faculty-taught seminar in his first semester. SCUE commends the University and the College of Arts and Sciences' movement in this direction.