STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
Key
Performance Indicator 1
Student Affairs' Activities & Programs Engage Students in Active Learning
| Long Range Goals: | Achievement Timelines: |
| Establish a campus environment which maximizes learning. Within this context assist students to understand their impact upon others; their strengths and weaknesses; promote self reliance and autonomy; |
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| Refine how Student Affairs services help students process the "learning" in designed programs by providing opportunities for in-depth reflection on active learning experiences. This must be done with a knowledge of learning styles, stages of emotional development and developmental process. | 2 years |
| Working Objectives: | Timelines: |
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Ensure program development is committed to the design of intentional learning objectives through the implementation of new program models. |
2 years |
| Structure programs to provide opportunities for active learning through involvement, interaction, decision-making, critical thinking, one on one experiences, modeling, coaching. | 2 years |
| Explore technology to enhance programming and active learning such as chatrooms or list serves designed for students. | 1 year |
| Programs currently in place which place emphasis upon active learning such as Student Programming Board, Student Government, and Student Justice and Advocate society should be supported and evaluated for additional opportunities to enhance the development of students and subsequent critical analyses of events and learning opportunities. | 1 year |
| Create an environment which supports leadership development through - risk-taking, flexibility, personal responsibility, the development of trust and respect for the dignity of others, seeking potential within yourself and others, becoming involved in promoting civic responsibility. |
2 years |
| Become more involved with faculty in order to draw parallels between active learning and Student Affairs programming. | 3 years |
| Enhance relationships with area community agencies in order to support our commitment to community service thereby enhancing the educational process. | 1 year |
| Seeks way to communicate to and involve faculty and administration in the application of skills learned outside the classroom through student programming. | 3 years |
| Assessment: | |
| To be developed by the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and on Assessment Committee. | 1 year |
| Priority Action Plan: | |
| Actively pursue a service delivery that emphasizes "student engagement in various learning experiences." Students become partners in learning. This would mean that programs and activities would focus more on the active learning benefit and would require a paradigm. Students should become partners in learning. | |
