Faculty have an opportunity to get to know the students' needs and abilities. The senior capstone experience seems to be an enjoyable and challenging experience for students because they understand the the need to integrate all the knowledge, skills, and abilities learned during their academic experience. Writing, verbal, and math skills continue to be weak. Consequently we have incorporated a vocabulary component in the freshman seminar to attempt to remedy this problem. Students need more opportunities to learn about the resources of the library, how to access information, and how to write a professional piece of work.
Students have to show a basic writing competency.
Students need more opportunities to develop their speaking skills. Many are extremely uncomfortable speaking in front of their peers. All students need to be computer literate. Those who are have distinct advantages over those who are not. The capstone experience seems to be a successful method of analyzing the thinking, reasoning, and synthesizing abilitues of the student.