Student Life

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Tactical Priority 5

DSL Tactical Priority 5, Campus Culture & Environment, focuses on fostering a campus culture and environment that emphasizes awareness, knowledge, and skills related to social justice and inclusion.

Hats off to the team at RecSports and the Multicultural Student Life Diversity Educators for their collaboration last August in providing social justice training to 178 undergraduate student employees, 10 graduate assistants, and 14 full-time staff. The training was geared toward promoting general growth and focused specifically on social justice understanding through the lens of privilege.

Professional Development

2019 Assessment Symposium- Click the image for more information

Symposium Time!

More than 75 faculty and staff from across the institution are expected to attend the May 17 Assessment Symposium, which will feature sessions on strategic planning, alternative assessment methods to surveys, and social justice and culturally-responsive assessment.

Agendas and other information will be posted here on the OASI Website as they come available.

Going Beyond the Survey

Get a head start on Dr. Matt Jackson's "Alternative Assessment Methods" symposium session with this OASI blog post, Beyond the Survey - Try one of these Alternatives. Dr. Jackson's session will acquaint participants with many of these alternative assessment tools, from checklists and rubrics to instant student responses, document analyses and more!

Updates

Surveys in Student Life: New Process!

Beginning this month, surveys in Student Life will be better and easier than ever to administer.

All surveys for the upcoming academic cycle will be discussed and pre-approved by the department Directors during the OASI Annual Assessment Planning Meetings. Each survey will have standard Request and Summary forms to ensure best practices and continuity.

For more information on the new process, visit the OASI website.

Upcoming Assessment Deadlines

Annual Assessment Planning Meetings. Every department needs one! View the agenda, learn how to prepare, and schedule your department's meeting between May 20-June 14.
Spring Activity Codes Due May 15. Reach out to OASI with questions and for help!
Jan 1- May 15 Spring KPI data can be submitted any time before June 30.

Resources

Check it out! Webinar Recording

You can now access the recording of OASI's recently hosted webinar, Assessment: Determine Your Message, Visualize the Data & Impact Change, in the shared assessment folder of the I-Drive (vol06 –> VC Student Affairs –> _Share – Assessment). Materials available include the following:

Full webinar, which includes lots of tricks for creating infographics, charts, and other data visuals using Excel, Powerpoint, and other free tools
PPT slides
Key takeaways handout
Group discussion questions

Vol Trivia

What symbol of success does the Torchbearer statue hold in its left hand?

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