Recommendation from the Student Life Task Force:
Mentor Gustavus men intentionally and actively for academic success, leadership, and appropriate engagement with curricular and co-curricular opportunities.
Additional explanation:
This would involve a partnership between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs and include identifying the needs of men, creating and implementing strategies and assessment measures. This initiative addresses a campus and national trend of decreasing male participation in leadership roles, community service involvement, academic motivation, and appropriate use of alcohol.
This recommendation was placed in the Personal Growth and Development Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language:
Further develop a campus wide advising/mentoring community that aims to meet the growing number of diverse advising and mentoring needs of all our students, including the recent work of the Men’s Leadership Initiative.
This recommendation was placed is Tier 1 and is being monitored by the Provost and Dean of the College.