Minerva Center for High Impact Learning seeks to enhance the academic curriculum through experiential learning. Experiential learning activities at UAlbany allow students to complement classroom knowledge and acquire relevant disciplinary and professional skills by participating in substantial, hands-on activities. Experiential or applied learning opportunities typically include planning, training, monitoring, reflection, and evaluation. Visit the Minerva Center for High Impact Learning website for more information.
The Minerva Center serves as a central home for university-wide academic internship programs and undergraduate research. UAlbany students who engage in experiential learning can:
- Enhance their academic skills, learning, and success
- Make intellectual or creative contributions to an academic discipline
- Learn about a specific field or career and develop competencies for future success
- Cultivate a network of academic and professional advisors, mentors, and peers
- Attend and present at institutional, regional, and national conferences
- Apply for and receive funding through our Student Awards & Funding programs
- Collaborate with faculty, staff, and students to be exposed to new ideas, cultures, and viewpoints
Minerva Center for High Impact Learning also serves as a centralized home for the University’s skills badging programs. Developed by University faculty and staff, skills badges are industry-aligned competency-based online educational offerings. Badges enable learners to track, display and articulate verified evidence of competency development. While digital credentials are not academic credit-bearing at the University at Albany, they contain metadata, including information regarding the issuing institution, the date earned, the criteria required to earn the badge, and the associated evidence related to the awarded badge. Badges are transferable and portable – they can be posted to a variety of online platforms, including LinkedIn, digital portfolios, websites, and resumes.
Contact the Minerva Center
Taconic 337 and 341
1400 Washington Avenue
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 518-442-3950