Learning College Principles

Madison Area Technical College: A learning college

Madison College embraces the Learning College principles and is working toward creating or enhancing support structures and systems to make the principles real in the life of the college.

Key Learning College Principles

1. The Learning College creates substantive change in individual learners.
2. The Learning College engages learners in the learning process as full partners who assume primary responsibility for their own choices.
3. The Learning College creates and offers as many options for learning as possible.
4. The Learning College assists learners to form and participate in collaborative learning activities.
5. The Learning College defines the roles of learning facilitators by the needs of the learners.
6. All Learning College employees identify with their role in supporting learning.
7. The Learning College and its learning facilitators succeed only when improved and expanded learning can be documented for learners and skills to enhance quality of life and boost economic vitality. We are committed to extending learning beyond the classroom and throughout life. To meet each student’s educational needs, we: 
   • deliver high quality instruction and services that are responsive, flexible and accessible;
   • join talent and technology to make learning generously available and imaginatively delivered;
   • commit to high standards and accountability;
   • create strategic alliances that expand students’ learning opportunities;
   • respect each other’s dignity, embrace diversity and offer opportunities for growth.