The Bailey Scholars Program is a unique opportunity to learn through community. It is a program of possibility and potential, where we aid you in your pursuit of your learning interests. We focus on scholarship, excellence, and community. Here in the Bailey Scholars Program, you explain to us where your interests lie, and we provide opportunities to help you explore them in class, through faculty and staff/student interactions, on program and college committees, in internships, through research, on study abroad trips, through community partnerships, and beyond.
We are a non-residential, learning community housed in the Community, Agriculture, Recreation, and Resource Studies Department in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University. We are open to all undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff who wish to engage in our work, together. We are located in 65 Agriculture Hall, and our office hours are Monday - Friday, 8 am - 5 pm.
Bailey’s declaration is “to be a community of scholars dedicated to lifelong learning. All members of the community work toward providing a respectful, trusting environment where we acknowledge our interdependence and encourage personal growth.” We accomplish this by integrating our academics and our community; students are regarded as highly as faculty and staff – here we are all equals. Ideas you wish to explore and pose to others in the community are exciting new ways for each of us to expand our horizons.
By participating in the Bailey Scholars Program, undergraduates receive a specialization in Connected Learning. Each undergraduate member of Bailey forms a Learning Vision Statement – an expression of what you hope to learn and how you hope to grow as an individual in the community. Graduate students, faculty and staff undergo a process of envisioning, where they lay out their plans for their involvement in the program intertwined with their learning goals. We aim to aid you on your way, and support you in your learning journey.
Undergraduates and faculty have the opportunity to explore their interests in the Bailey Core Courses – ANR 210, ANR 310, and ANR 410. The courses are typically facilitated by two faculty members, and with 4 – 15 undergraduate students. These courses are unique because the schedule is formed by the individuals in the courses. The class decides what you hope to learn, how you will learn and research these topics, when you will learn them, how you will assess learning, and how to assign grades. These are the only university courses of their nature at Michigan State University and across the nation, both students and faculty explore as co-learners.
The Bailey Scholars Program is a unique place in higher education. It is where the pursuit of learning meets the research intensive institution. It is a community of learning that supports every member of the program, and aims to educate and influence the larger world community. Here we engage in innovative practices to find ways to better allow freedom for individuals to pursue their learning interests and goals, and together we find ways to make these goals a reality.
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