361°Programs & People

DePauw’s 361° Programs structure a comprehensive use of information technology resources and programming to reinforce the University’s traditional liberal arts experience, which emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, interpretation, learning through experience, and learning through reflection.  361° transcends the typical skill-based approach and integrates information technologies directly into curricular and co-curricular activities as a liberal art.

"Preparing the whole person for the full circle of life," is how James B. Stewart Jr. '73, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, described DePauw's educational approach. To illustrate the full circle of preparation offered by DePauw, we chose the name "361°" to describe the University's commitment to preparing graduates to lead in the digital age. The 361 degree symbol illustrates that DePauw students are confident to pursue any direction after graduation; the additional degree symbolizes that graduates are empowered to pursue new and innovative directions.

361°'s programs are designed to support, enhance,and transform teaching and learning at DePauw and beyond. Now found in every aspect of campus life, in every building, in every academic and administrative department and in every residence hall, the initiatives are helping DePauw University refine and extend its historic strengths in the digital age.

DePauw has become a national model for the successful marriage of digital fluency with the classic critical thinking, speaking and writing strengths of liberal arts education. DePauw's initiatives foster student and faculty use of, and facility with, computers and other digital technologies to develop the skills and languages needed to learn, live and work in an increasingly technological world.