NYIT

Student Engagement Core

The chart below represents competencies that students gain through interactions with the programs, services and offices
within the Division of Student Affairs at NYIT. These competencies build on one another and increase in complexity from left
to right (successful skill development for the competencies on the right are dependent upon successful development of earlier
ones on the left).


Definitions of Competency Categories
Competency: A skill that one can apply with some aptitude and that one strives to master.
Foundational Competencies: Personal attributes one develops within themselves.
Professional Competencies: Attributes that manifest a professional persona and abilities/skills.
NYIT Community Connections: Ones sense of connection to his/her campus and NYIT overall.
Global Citizenship Competencies: Skills that one gains to understand oneself in relation to the larger community.
Leadership Competencies: Abilities that enable one to lead a group towards a common goal.

Foundational

Professional

NYIT Community
Connections

Global Citizenship

Leadership

The ability to use
knowledge and skills
from prior experiences
to handle new
challenges in places of
a shared responsibility
for producing work

The ability to use
knowledge and skills
from prior experiences
to handle new
challenges in the
educational community

The ability to
implement
knowledge and skills
in new leadership
opportunities

Self-Care &
Communication Skills
Management
The ability to
The ability to engage
effectively and
help-seeking
confidently relay
behaviors that enable
information; this
one to be physically, includes the knowledge
mentally,
of how to communicate
emotionally, and
(i.e. through a resume)
intellectually healthy
ones personal
attributes and how
they relate to various
work settings



Respect for Self &
Conflict Resolution
Others
The ability to work
The ability to conduct through disagreements
oneself with dignity in a productive manner
and with foresight for
how ones actions
impact others

Sense of Belonging
Feeling connected and
comfortable with NYIT
overall

The ability to use
knowledge and skills
from prior experiences
to handle new
challenges in a
multicultural
community


Enacting Empathy
The ability to
understand anothers
experience through
projection of oneself
into the scenario

Connection to Peers,
Faculty and Staff
The ability to relate
well and work
satisfactorily with co-
workers and
supervisors

Global Perspective
Having a viewpoint
that develops through
experiences and leads
to understanding and
appreciation of the
importance of
worldwide
interconnectedness

Conflict
Management
The ability to help
groups work through
disagreements in a
productive manner

Collaboration Skills
The ability to work
effectively with
others while
achieving a common
Goal

Foundational

Professional

Goal-Setting Skills
The ability to
accurately assess
ones strengths and
weaknesses and
apply that awareness
to develop attainable
short and long term
goals


Time Management
The ability to balance
school, work, and life
responsibilities

Teamwork
The ability to give &
receive constructive
feedback and; the
ability to contribute
effectively to a team
project

NYIT Community
Connections

Pride in NYIT
The ability to think and
behave in a positive
manner regarding
NYIT, during and after
graduation

Global Citizenship

Leadership

Civic Engagement
Being aware of your
surroundings and
learning how to be an
active participant

Group Management
Skills
Having the ability to
delegate
responsibility and
motivate others to
work together
towards a successful
outcome


Acting as a Change
Agent
The ability to
formulate a vision for
change that would
enhance ones
community and
motivating others to
participate

Ethical Decision-
Respect & Civility
Taking Action
Making
Having an awareness of
Towards Change
The ability to know
others needs and
The ability to see
right from wrong in the rights within the NYIT
changes that, if made,
workplace, apply a
community and being
would have a positive
sense of personal
considerate of differing
impact on the
accountability, and
viewpoints and
community and taking
assume shared
approaches
steps towards that idea
responsibility in the

workplace





Critical Thinking &
Career Development
Adherence to
Multicultural
Problem-Solving
Skills
Community
Competence
Skills
The ability to identify
Standards
Having awareness of
The ability to
ones attributes
The ability to
one's own cultural
interpret, analyze
(personal
understand and comply
worldview and
and synthesize
competencies, skills,
with the norms,
attitudes, knowledge of
information towards
values and
policies and
different cultural
deeper
strengths/weaknesses)
procedures of NYIT
practices and
understanding of
in order to make
perspectives, and the
issues leading to
decisions about future
ability to apply this
informed opinions
career directions and
awareness and
and ideas
research (i.e. search the
knowledge towards

web, hold
effective collaboration
informational
with others who
interviews of
possess a different
professionals, etc.) how
cultural background,
these personal
perspective or practice
attributes influence
career choices





Awareness of
Development of a
Sense of
Recognition of
Resources
Professional Network
Accountability &
Significance of
The ability to identify
The ability to form
Responsibility
Historical Contexts
offices and people
mutually dependable
The ability to manage
The ability to identify
that can help
relationships with
day to day NYIT
and articulate the
facilitate personal
faculty, students, and
experience, with an
influence of historical
and academic success professionals in order
understanding and
events on global
to develop future
acceptance of the
connections
professional networks
consequences

Empowering Others
The ability to
recognize and
encourage others to
utilize their strengths
to be able to guide
themselves towards
growth

Accepting
Accountability for
Organizational
Outcomes
The ability to assume
responsibility for
organizational
outcomes (positive
or negative) and set
appropriate new
directions

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