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Paine College’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP): L.I.O.N.

Learning Interactively Outside the Norm: Great Books at Paine College (The L.I.O.N. Initiative)

Paine College is committed to excellence in education and improving the quality of student learning. Learning Interactively Outside the Norm (L.I.O.N.): Great Books at Paine College was established as a campus-wide activity to promote the scholarship of reading. Through the three specific outcomes of (1) improving reading skills, (2) increasing reading engagement, and (3) intellectual engagement, the L.I.O.N. Initiative utilizes the enterprise of reading rigorous texts as a way of engaging the entire Paine College community in scholarly endeavors.

Programmatic Features Include:

Curriculum enhancement
Pedagogical study
Assessment development
Identification of outcome measures
Faculty development
Student focused informal activities