MASTER PLAN
student responsibility
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Goal 1. Increase responsibility around upkeep of residence hall bathrooms and kitchens
- Provide cleaning supplies in kitchens
- Post a kitchen use checklist and tips on how to avoid fire alarms
- Provide clearer expectations for trash disposal
- Make students responsible for cleaning own bathrooms for on-going problems
- Develop protocol for community consequences including potential removal of amenities
Goal 2. Decrease floor vandalism
- Develop a plan to effectively deal with vandalism
- Create consistency with housekeeping/facilities response to damage (open communication)
- Use a developmental approach of community expectations and resident-generated programs to increase student attachment and responsibility for floor
- Allow students to alter their physical space – encourage murals, etc
- Increase student sense of ownership by creating community guidelines
Goal 3. Help students establish a sense of community
- Develop roommate 101 module for all incoming students- require them to complete before they can select housing
- Have more strict expectations on roommate agreements – require all 1 st year students to complete them
- Require mediation with reference to roommate agreement prior to any student moves
- Identify incentives for faculty to be more involved in floors
- Maintain current residential learning communities
- Establish, where feasible, lounges as academic spaces – install internet and whiteboards
- Have professional staff discussions with students about their GPA
- Help Resident Assistants better educate students on community guidelines/responsibilities through pre-packaged bulletin boards and other methods
Goal 4. Increase behavioral responsibility
- Assess and evaluate current sanction program
- Create a broader range of creative/experiential sanctions (i.e. civility)
- Explore methods of greater accountability for not completing sanctions – i.e. housing restrictions, etc
- Send parent letters whenever we believe it would benefit the student
- Offer “Don't cancel class” programs to faculty on behavior issues (i.e. have a group of staff and students who can present canned programs on non academic topics when a professor will be out)
- Create objectives for hearings based on type of violations
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