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Expand and Remodel Lund Center
Recommendation from the Academic Programs and New Initiatives Task Force: Expand and remodel Lund Center in a manner driven by its mission of teaching/learning, health, wellness, and fitness. Additional explanation: Nursing (like Education) is housed in a temporary building (Mattson Hall). Health and Exercise Science has outgrown the space it occupies in Lund. As plans […]
Community Service Center Capacity
Recommendation from the Community Engagement Task Force: Expand the capacity of the Community Service Center, both in physical space and staff, to meet the needs of faculty, students, and community partners. Additional explanation: The Community Service Center is at the heart of community engagement on the Gustavus campus. The biggest barrier to growth is capacity […]
Teaching Communication and Conflict Resolution
Recommendation from the Community Engagement Task Force: Teach students a process of effective communication and conflict resolution in a civil manner during their First Term Seminar (FTS). Additional explanation: Learning the process is more important than debating a specific topic. By leveraging the FTS, the students learn tools they can use to handle the many […]
Theme-based Student Housing
Recommendation from the Community Engagement Task Force: Implement a structure to support a minimum of 25 percent of student housing be theme-based, including communities that link building assignment and academic courses with a faculty advisor. Additional explanation: Over the next five years this would involve: Designing a new master plan for Gustavus residence halls that […]
Engaging in Alcohol Dialogue
Recommendation from the Student Life Task Force: Develop a campus-wide training program designed to provide the campus with the knowledge needed to engage in alcohol dialogue. Additional explanation: This program would be for students, faculty, and staff to help identify potential high risk student drinkers; to engage these students and their affected peers in discussions; […]
Counseling Center Services Assessment
Recommendation from the Student Life Task Force: Conduct a comprehensive assessment of student needs and appropriate scope of practice relating to Counseling Center services. This recommendation was placed in the Personal Growth and Development Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language: Conduct a comprehensive assessment of student needs and appropriate scope of practice relating to […]
Community Service Center Infrastructure
Recommendation from the Interdisciplinary Programs Task Force: Expand the infrastructure of the Community Service Center to meet existing needs from faculty members, students and community partners to empower engaged student learning through community partnerships. This recommendation was placed in the Partnerships and Collaborations Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language: Expand the infrastructure of the […]
Community Engagement as Distinction
Recommendation from the Community Engagement Task Force: Make community engagement a point of distinction for Gustavus and receive the Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification. Additional explanation: Ultimately, community engagement should be a critical differentiator of the Gustavus brand, what the College is really known for. Gustavus has an opportunity to create a premier model of […]
Learning and Living Communities Assessment
Recommendation from the Interdisciplinary Programs Task Force: Develop an assessment tool to measure student learning outcomes related to learning and living communities. This recommendation was placed in the Personal Growth and Development Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language: Develop an assessment tool to measure student learning outcomes related to learning and living communities. This […]
Civil Discourse Commitment
Recommendation from the Student Life Task Force: Nurture a campus community committed to civil discourse and skilled in its practice. Additional explanation: This could happen by developing a non-curricular training workshop that is transformative for participants and creating regular community discussions of timely issues (local, national, or world) led by trained civil discourse facilitators. Targeted […]