Your college experience is not just about going to class, getting good grades, and graduating on schedule. College is the time to become the person that you want to be—professionally, socially, and personally. At B-W you’ll find challenges to sharpen your intellect, opportunities to apply your learning, and mentors to guide your development so that whatever you want to be, you can Be That at Baldwin-Wallace and on into your career.

Actions

What do you want to be?

You might think the answer to this question is the name of a college major or future career, but you’re about more than textbooks and titles. You have goals for college that are not just academic, but social, personal and professional as well. Your success in fulfilling these goals will ultimately determine what you get out of college — and more importantly — shape the unique person that you’ll become.

So what should a unique person like you want to be? It’s your question, and ultimately your answer, but in the mean time Baldwin-Wallace wants you to simply Be That.

Okay, Be That is more than a little ambiguous — and for good reason. Discovering what you want to be during and after college is a personal journey. Your B-W professors, mentors and advisors will offer insight, but ultimately you have to define what it means to be an educated person, citizen and professional. Just remember that whatever you want to be, we’re here to help to succeed.

So exactly how does Baldwin-Wallace help you answer such an important question?

The Be That Web Site

The search for your answer begins with this Web site, which will help you navigate the academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular opportunities available at B-W. Because most of the opportunities listed require you to do something, the Be That site calls them actions. Your potential actions are presented in a timely fashion, so as a freshman you’ll learn of first-year course requirements, and as a senior you’ll be directed to resources for finding your first job.

With all your options in clear view, you can confidently go into action — taking chances with your experiences while limiting your regrets. Try an interesting class unrelated to your major, but know it won’t slow your academic progress. Become heavily involved with a student club, but know what other clubs are out there. Having the full picture of what B-W offers encourages you to expand your comfort zone while remaining focused on your goals.

So if the Be That Web site helps you stay on track to get the most out of Baldwin-Wallace, how does B-W help you create the “track” that you wish to follow?

Your B-W Action Plan

As a Baldwin-Wallace student you’ll be encouraged to select actions from the Be That Web site to pursue and chronicle the results in a Web-based Action Plan. Your Action Plan is your personalized strategy for becoming the person you want to be. Use it to collect your thoughts, goals, questions, ideas, to-dos and outcomes related to each action. It’s also an editable document, so your Action Plan can evolve as you do. Your Action Plan continuously reminds you of why you’re in college, what you want to accomplish, and how you’re going to succeed.

Your Action Plan is stored securely in your B-W e-Portfolio — an online space where you can store academic goals, future plans and reports. Like an “electronic scrapbook”, you can customize your e-Portfolio with video, photos, audio, journal entries and even classroom assignments.

By sharing your Action Plan with your mentors, parents, advisors, professors and ultimately future employers, you’ll be providing them all with key insights into what you’re trying to accomplish while at B-W. This insight will allow them to better prepare you for the workplace.

Simply put, updating your Action Plan on a regular basis and sharing it ensures you’ll get the right guidance to achieve your biggest goal at Baldwin-Wallace — to Be That...now get to work!