Creating a Strengths-based Campus
CliftonStrengths® assessments are designed to help students understand and apply their strengths to be more confident learners and enrich their student experience.
Program Lead: Student Experience
Project Status: Complete
With Parr Centre support, Student Experience has made the CliftonStrengths® assessment available to all students participating in the Community Connections Program. This program is an optional one-day intensive workshop, available on campus or virtually, to support first-year students. Facilitated by Western staff and student peers, the workshops are offered to incoming first-year students beginning in the summer and run throughout the academic year.
To ensure we reach as many students as possible, Student Experience has also worked with the peer-based Academic Support Program and first-year academic courses to integrate CliftonStrengths® assessments into their curriculum.
Funds from the Parr Centre also provided access for campus leaders to the CliftonStrengths® for Students Campus Champions course, a six-hour interactive virtual course hosted by Gallup to train leaders on the fundamentals of strengths-based education and to help them discover the connection between student strengths, engagement, and wellbeing.
In summary...
- Between September 2020 and August 2021, 901 students participated in the CliftonStrengths® assessment. With Parr Centre support, we have the capacity to deliver the assessment to another 1,700 students in the Fall 2021 semester, with a focus on incoming students.
- 575 students participated in Community Connections workshops.
- 35 campus partners completed the CliftonStrengths® Campus Champions course and we now have a waitlist for the next session.
- A Strengths portal, with tailored content for the students, was created on the Student Experience website.
- Western earns award for cultivating unique student strengths
