{"id":28,"date":"2024-03-18T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T20:42:18","slug":"alternative-spring-break-goals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/alternative-spring-break\/alternative-spring-break-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Spring Break Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_4041.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_4041.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_4041-800x376.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_4041-1024x481.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/files\/2025\/04\/IMG_4041-768x361.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternative Spring Break seeks to increase student success and retention through multiple overlapping measures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scaffolding varied, culturally-relevant opportunities to apply and strengthen foundational academic skills (primarily reading, writing, critical thinking, presenting, and working effectively in small groups)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Building a thick network of students, peer mentors, staff, and faculty, fostering students\u2019 sense of belonging, agency, and resilience in the face of academic and other challenges<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Familiarizing students with diverse disciplines, career possibilities, and people who apply and create different kinds of knowledge in different fields<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drawing intentional connections between home, community, and higher ed, encouraging students to see themselves and their communities in the university<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introducing students to real-world contexts in which they can develop soft skills associated with teamwork, leadership, problem-solving, adaptability, and flexibility and examine the root causes of complex social issues through experiential education and civic engagement&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increasing faculty and staff knowledge of students\u2019 diverse experiences, strengths, goals, and needs, building institutional capacity and commitment to student success<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allowing students to \u201cbank\u201d two credits prior to the start of spring term, providing more flexibility to take a lower course load if needed to be academically successful spring term, or to take a higher overall number of course credits in order to maintain eligibility for financial aid and athletics and remain on track toward timely graduation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The program also provides an opportunity to further train Summer Bridge student mentors and engage students otherwise unable to leave campus over spring break.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, contact Dr. Cori Brewster, Summer Bridge Director and Professor of English\/Writing at cbrewste@eou.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative Spring Break seeks to increase student success and retention through multiple overlapping measures: The program also provides an opportunity to further train Summer Bridge student mentors and engage students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":491,"featured_media":0,"parent":353,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/1086"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/summer-bridge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}