Goals and Outcomes/Objectives
1. Develop and manage human, financial, physical, and technological resources effectively
and efficiently.
- Maintain on-campus housing occupancy and supporting revenue
- Plan, provide, and maintain “state of the art” technology services to on-campus
residents and department staff - Provide an on-campus housing supply according to the following:
- Plan, provide and maintain “state of the art” housing facilities for on-campus
residents. - Recruit and retain a highly qualified and diverse staff
- Demonstrate fiscal responsibility as prescribed by the University system and
institutional policies and procedures - Continue to enhance the best business practices
2. Enrich and enhance the academic experience and the academic success of student campus
residents
- Develop, renovate, construct and maintain academic support space across on-campus
housing facilities - Implement the Residence Life Academic Support Strategic Plan in 2015
- Integrate academic initiatives into the residential setting by maintaining and adding
residentially-based living learning communities, providing college/departmental based
clustered housing, and/or exploring academic housing districts with specific colleges
in partnership with faculty, administrators, and staff from academic units - Investigate positives/negatives of clustering specific major courses of study in
designated areas of campus - Collaborate with Scholarships & Student Aid to provide on campus housing in support
of Regents’ Scholars, Terry Foundation Scholars, POSSE Foundation Scholars,
National Merits, and Gateway to Success students.
3. Provide evidence of quality facilities, services, programs, and opportunities that support the
university’s mission in the recruitment, retention, and development of students
- Establish an assessment plan annually to contribute to the evidence-based practice as
defined by the department’s mission. - Engage in ongoing assessment, evaluations, and benchmarking.
- Update and market the benefits of living on campus based on assessment data and
research that support the university’s mission in the recruitment, retention, and
development of student opportunities. - Investigate partnering with Academic Affairs to design and conduct a longitudinal
assessment addressing retention, graduation rate, and progression to the degree of
residential students - Maintain a designed, implemented, and assessed residential curriculum for on-campus
residents, facilitated by resident advisors.
4. Promote the University’s mission to build a diverse, respectful, sustainable, and safe
community.
- Cultivate a campus climate that is welcoming, supportive, and affirming for students,
staff, families, and the public. - Cultivate an on-campus climate that understands the long-term implications of
sustainability on our global environment. - Cultivate an on-campus housing climate that promotes an understanding of safety and
unsafe behavior.