Graduate Profile
Self-Driven
As confident, resilient and independent learners, UPA students backwards plan to set long term and short term goals. Using the Habits of Success, self-driven learners take actions to achieve their goals.
Advocates
UPA students are warriors who use their voice to seek help appropriately, advocate for justice, rights, and opportunity, develop their skills and are ready to take action.
Collaborative
UPA students appreciate working across differences in productive struggle. Through participation in academic discussions and working as a team, UPA students co-create meaning and deepen their learning.
Critical Thinkers
UPA scholars analyze issues from multiple perspectives, evaluate the strength of evidence, ask questions to gain a deeper understanding, and engage in discussion in order to draw informed conclusions.
Creative
UPA students are productive risk takers who see obstacles as opportunities for innovative problemsolving both in school and beyond. UPA students are makers and designers who persevere and adapt, shaping their futures and communities.
Self Expressive
UPA students connect with their own identities to find a place of healing, so that they can develop empathy and communicate ideas and feelings through different forms such as writing, art, dance, music, and theater.
