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The 2025-2027 Common Experience at NKU is centered around Lifelong Learning through four tenants titled G.R.O.W. (Gather, Reflect, Overcome, and Work). Students will gather insight and perspective to reflect on their experiences and overcome challenges allowing them to work collaboratively to become better lifelong learners.
  • Gather – Insight (Competence, Knowledge, Prospectives)
  • Reflect – Experience (Past, Present & Future - Nuclear Environment)
  • Overcome – Challenges (Learning & Life) 
  • Work – Collaboratively (Mentor, Peer, Resources)  

Through this theme, we invite students, faculty, staff, and community members to explore higher education through informed learning, connected systems, student wellness, and community engagement. The overarching theme is meant to promote common academic conversation and foster engagement on campus around the idea that there is educational power in the connections we make and overcoming the obstacles we face within higher education and the world.