At Pine Manor College, every student receives comprehensive advising through our Portfolio Learning Program. Each woman entering the College is assigned to a First Year Experience  Seminar (FYES) of 12-15 students. Each FYES, led by faculty members and student life professionals with the assistance from peer mentors, meets regularly during the academic year. Students will then participate in a Portfolio Learning Seminar (PLS) during their second year.  The primary purpose of the Portfolio Learning Program  is to encourage students to become reflective, self-directed learners, as well as to help them understand and fulfill degree requirements through development of a personalized learning portfolio. A student's learning portfolio, through which she addresses the College's Learning Outcomes, will form the central focus of her educational experience at Pine Manor College.

Presentation and submission of a "learning portfolio" is a graduation requirement for all Pine Manor College students. The portfolio contains evidence of and reflections upon student learning related to the general education outcomes and accomplishments within the major.

Outcome 1: Effective Communication
The ability to communicate effectively in speech, in writing, and in visual images.

Outcome 2: Information Literacy
The ability to identify, access, evaluate and present information via electronic and print technology.

Outcome 3: Computer Proficiency
The ability to use common software applications.

Outcome 4: Critical Thinking
The ability to think in ways that encourage creative and effective problem- solving and sound judgment

Outcome 5: Quantitative Reasoning
The ability to use mathematical concepts and logic to analyze relationships, solve problems, and communicate.

Outcome 6: Application of Knowledge
The ability to recognize relationships between different areas of knowledge, and to connect theory and practice intellectually and in practical situations.

Outcome 7: Effective Team and Inclusive Leadership Skills
The ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a group, assuming leadership when appropriate and facilitating its appropriate assumption in others.

Outcome 8: Multicultural Perspective
An understanding of how race, class, ethnicity, culture and gender affect contemporary society.

Outcome 9: Ethical Perspective
The ability to understand and reflect upon ethically and socially responsible behavior.

Outcome 10: Creativity and the Arts
An understanding of the creative process through experiencing the arts.

Outcome 11: Breadth of Knowledge of the Contemporary World and it Roots
Familiarity with a range of perspectives (historical, economic, political, social, cultural, literary, scientific, etc.) useful for understanding the contemporary world and it roots.

Outcome 12: Depth of Knowledge
An in-depth understanding of a disciplinary or interdisciplinary field of study.