Summary of Objectives & Goals: Student
Support & Campus Climate
Objective: To strengthen support for students through positive relationships
with faculty and staff and through a campus climate characterized by
integrity, an involved student body led by empowered student leaders,
and a strong sense of community.
Students identify their interactions with members of the faculty and administration
as memorable features of their undergraduate education. Wooster clearly
has one of the premier capstone experiences, which requires intense interaction
with faculty. However, the College’s scores in the NSSE survey are
lower in these categories than expected and below some key comparative
groupings of liberal arts colleges. Therefore, goals for improved interaction
are adopted.
GOALS
- To increase and improve interaction between students and members of
the faculty and administration outside the classroom in active and collaborative
learning and other situations, by:
- Increasing mentoring relationships between students and faculty as
well as between students and administrators and staff;
- Recognizing that adjustments to teaching requirements will provide
more time for interaction and for development of strategies for active
and collaborative learning;
- Seeking greater clarity in the Criteria of Evaluation for
such faculty interaction.
- To encourage greater involvement by faculty, administration, and staff
in admissions activities, student groups, and co-curricular and extra-curricular
campus events.
Beyond interaction with faculty and staff, three additional goals are
established for the purpose of maintaining a campus climate that is characterized
by high standards of integrity, by a sense of student empowerment, and
by a strong sense of community.
- To create and implement an honor code.
- To confirm or redesign the formal and informal structures of student
involvement in governance, social interaction, and campus programming,
and to improve the training of students in formal leadership positions.
- To conduct a comprehensive campus-climate study to determine ways,
in the context of multiple communities, to enhance the sense of community
and the overall student experience, particularly to identify what features
are important to campus social life.
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