Draft Strategic Plan: Goal 3.D.7

 

Strategic Plan Feasibility Study

Summer 2011

Goal 3D7

Final Version

  

Develop new models for orientation and for student life in the freshman year that support bonding with the College and student retention and success articulated above.

  

  

  

Research Team Leader(s): Mladen Cvijanovic, Karin Gollin, Wes Lawson, John Ramsay, Shawn White, Bob Herdegen, Christa Fye, David Klein

  

  

Proposed action/plan to achieve goal:

1.      Develop an orientation program that focus on "adjustment" to college life after considering the following possibilities:

a.       All new students take a freshman seminar designed to provide adequate academic rigor coupled with a consideration of common "adjustment issues" for traditional age freshmen;

b.      Additional reflection upon vocation (1:4, 6 and 7); what it means to be a contributing member of a community (1:2, 1:8, 1:9, 1:10, 2:B3, 2:C1, 3:A2,3:A4, 3:D2)

c.       And what it means to be a responsible citizen

  

Metric(s):

1.      Evidence through any number of survey instruments that suggests this program results in:

a.       An increased sense of engagement in the College community;

b.      A more maturely developed sense of one's place/role in the world;

c.       A more satisfactory adjustment to college life;

d.      Better equipped students to negotiate and advocate for themselves

e.       A reduction in parental interference in the work their sons need to do.

  

Timeline:

Study to begin late Fall 2011.

Implementation beginning late summer 2012

  

Cost:

·         ~ $20,000 for the new advising program

·         ~ $10,000 to support out of class events sponsored by advisors

  

Other factors:

            Three things need to be studied carefully:

1.      A comprehensive curriculum review

2.      A campus-wide consideration of a coordinated co-curricular program designed to complement the academic mission of the College and answer the very real issue of ill-prepared graduates in skills clumped together and referred herein as "life skills".

 

Strategic Plan Feasibility Study

Summer 2011

Goal 3D7

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3.      The relationship any programs that fall outside these two sectors have to the mission of the College and the extent to which it complements the College's mission.

  

  

Impact on other goals:

1:1, 1:3, 1:4, 1:6, 2:A3, 2:B3, 2:C1, 3:A1, 3:A3, 3:A7