Career readiness

Critical inquiry

Identify the assumptions underlying information and ideas, analyzing them for accuracy, validity, relevance, and limitations.

Information literacy & critique

Evaluate sources of information, including identifying misinformation, using judgment, and weighing sources.

Data literacy

Use data-informed reasoning to propose and evaluate solutions.

Curiosity

Value and learn from diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and other human differences. 

Problem-solving

Use logic and reasoning to evaluate alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches.

Evaluation

Consider the relative virtues and drawbacks of potential actions to choose and justify a contextually appropriate decision.

Adaptability & flexibility 

Adapt to differing contexts, personalities, and tasks.  

Originality & creative thinking 

Devise unique, unusual, or imaginative ideas and interpretations on a topic or situation.

Imagination 

Challenge existing methods, norms, structures with constructive alternatives.

Relationship-building  

Build mutually rewarding relationships with colleagues and partners to work effectively toward common goals. 

Social perceptiveness 

Attend to others' reactions and adapt your behavior in response. 

Open-mindedness  

Demonstrate openness and humility in interacting across cultural, demographic, and positional differences. 

Question-asking  

Fully attend to what others say, reflect on points or on critical feedback, and ask questions as appropriate. 

Care & compassion 

Exercise sensitivity to others and facilitate their processing of thoughts to devise their own solutions.  

Compromise 

Present your most constructive, open-minded self in group settings in order to reach a common goal. 

Conflict management & resolution 

Employ healthy responses (such as active listening, perspective-taking, and inclusion of opposing views) to actively seek resolution that works for all parties involved. 

Dependability 

Fulfill obligations by being reliable, responsible, and dependable, offering help as needed to achieve team goals. 

Reflection 

Make meaning out of experiences, ideas, and contexts through thoughtful consideration, self-exploration, and discernment. 

Values articulation 

Show awareness of own values and articulate why they matter to you.

Integrity  

Act responsibly and consistently with the interests of the larger community in mind. 

Self-motivation 

Take responsibility for your own learning with little supervision. 

Self-regulation 

Be aware of and express emotions in ways that invite yourself and others to entertain alternative perspectives. 

Goal-setting & action planning  

Manage your own time to align with priorities. 

Persistence & responsiveness 

Adapt to experience of difficulty or critical feedback by reflecting carefully and making appropriate behavioral adjustments. 

Stress management 

Be aware of stressors and areas of concern and demonstrate appropriate help-seeking behavior. 

Passion & pride in work 

Review, revise, and complete tasks thoroughly and carefully, with a high level of dedication toward your work. 

Lifelong learning 

Actively seek and embrace development opportunities. 

Community-building & sustainable change 

Engage with community members in the shared responsibility for social change. 

Trustworthiness 

Demonstrate humility and awareness of the impact of one’s own power, privilege, and positionality.   

Cultural humility 

Seek global cross-cultural interactions and experiences that enhance one’s understanding of people from different backgrounds and that lead to personal growth. 

Advocacy 

Acknowledge the harm of systemic and personal racism, affirm the experiences of marginalized communities, and act to dismantle racist systems and practices. 

Recognition of racist behaviors & systems 

Recognize systems of privilege and inequity that limit opportunities for members of historically marginalized communities; understand how these systems came to be and the conditions that have maintained them. 

Constructive engagement around race & racism  

Engage in anti-racist practices that actively challenge racist systems, structures, and policies; identify resources and eliminate barriers resulting from individual and systemic racism, inequities, and biases. 

Verbal communication 

Present to or talk with others to convey information as appropriate for the needs of the audience. 

Written communication

Communicate effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. 

Persuasion 

Present evidence and argumentation to encourage others to consider alternative positions.

Negotiation & facilitation 

Facilitate dialogue to reconcile differences. 

Instruction & learning 

Select and use learning methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. 

Transfer of learning 

Integrate new information with prior knowledge and experience and transfer it to new realms.