Goal 1. Implement strategies to connect residential students to their community
- Use focus groups to gather data on disconnect between students saying they need more connection in residence halls, but not more interaction or programs from RAs
- Review Resident Assistant training and commit to a focus on community development
- Review role of Resident Assistant in relation to community building and development
- Focus on international students' connections to community
- Focus on returning students' connections to community
- Close Sunday opening check-in from 5:00-7:00 p.m. so all halls can hold floor meetings with all RAs
Goal 2. Assess programming/community development expectations for non-specialty housing
- Collaborate with Residence Hall Association on community expectations and programming
- Look at roommate agreement form/process and make more useful for students
Goal 3. Develop department marketing to reflect focuses, including community focus and diversity
- Explore use of tagline or other symbols in marketing
- Promote marketing through various methods – stationary, website, etc
- Assess effectiveness of marketing
- Work to implement the marketing in the residential learning communities
Goal 4. Intentionally work to bring learning outcomes into halls
- Communicate learning outcomes to students in meetings, judicial meetings, orientation, etc
- Reflect learning outcomes in all written/on-line materials
- Incorporate the learning outcomes into housing agreements and review in first floor meeting
- Committees will incorporate the learning outcomes into their work
- Put learning outcomes in all professional staff offices
- Incorporate information about the learning outcomes into Resident Assistant training
- Incorporate the learning outcomes into departmental goal setting processes
Goal 5. Incorporate assessment plan into departmental operating procedures
- Train staff regularly on their roles in tracking data
- Utilize the assessment plan in department goal setting processes
- Create mechanisms for on-going tracking of various learning outcomes
Goal 6. Work to enforce quiet hours in buildings
- Create clear study spaces in all buildings
- Teach students confrontation skills so that they can approach each other effectively over quiet hours and other issues
- Train Resident Assistants to enforce quiet hours in terms of community expectations/development
- Create building signage/magnets with quiet hours information
