Residential Education Assessment

Residential worked on the development and implementation of four goals over the past academic year. These included: (1) The development of intentional outreach processes for freshman students reported as having academic difficulty, (2) the creation and implementation of increased diversity programming, training and collaboration efforts, (3) the establishment of four paraprofessional internships, and the construction of a Life Skills curriculum.

We achieved several successes with the implementation of these goals, including increased retention in the fall 2008 semester for residential students of 98%. Another success included newly developed programs and trainings in the area of diversity where we reached over 500 students with programming. Our Travelling Residential Informational Programs continue to need development to reach the numbers of students that we aspire to connect with, but we are hopeful that with some modifications, the program will grow in popularity and importance to the residential population. Lastly, we had two students who have completed successful internships and will have two more participating in different types of internships for academic credit this summer. Our hope is that each year, we can house even more internships from a variety of academic departments within Residential Education.

We have learned a lot this year about our efforts towards goals and visioning and look forward to the opportunity to plan our goals for the coming year, which will likely include revisions on current goals seen here as well as the inclusion of new ones.  Complete Residential Education Assessment Report (PDF, 137KB)
2010-2011 Residential Education Assessment Report (PDF, 31KB)
2011-2012 Residential Education Assessment Report (PDF, 142KB)