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We create opportunities for students to embark on a transformative journey that fosters self-discovery, active learning, belonging, and community engagement.

Division Goal 1.1 – Promote personal growth and self-exploration to identify and build essential life skills.

Year 1 (2025-2026) Objectives:

• Graduating students will demonstrate career readiness by participating in targeted professional development workshops and completing career preparation activities, resulting in at least 90% reporting confidence in their ability to succeed after graduation, as measured by post-program survey data.
• The Center for Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services will establish a peer-led awareness and education model that supports students impacted by sexual harm. This approach draws on research showing that healing and prevention are strengthened when students learn from and support one another.
• To help students connect the skills and knowledge they are gaining in the classroom with their employment, at least 25% of departments within the Division of Student Life will build a plan and utilize the Flashes GROW framework (Guided Reflection on Work) for their student employees.
• University Housing will implement a residential curriculum, centered on four learning goals: Creating Supportive Systems, Developing Empowered Adults, Emphasizing Safe Practices, and Building Connected Communities. Success will be measured by training resident assistants in curriculum delivery and achieving a 10% increase in student response to the prompt ‘to what degree has living in on-campus housing positively contributed to your sense of belonging to ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’ on the next administration of the Quality-of-Life survey.

Year 2 (2026-2027) Objectives:

• To engage incoming students and orient them towards leadership experiences on campus, an Emerging Leader Institute within the Center for Student Involvement will be created.
• Flashes GROW (Guided Reflection on Work) will be adopted throughout all Division of Student Life units.

Year 3 (2027-2028) Objectives:

• Departments will evaluate/assess the success of the Student Life employee experience after Flashes GROW (Guided Reflection on Work).

Division Goal 1.2 – Establish a comprehensive support system that emphasizes resilience and campus engagement for non-residential, graduate, and online students.

Year 1 (2025-2026) Objectives:

• The Student Organization Support team within CSI will hold individual meetings with at least 85% of registered Student Organizations to strengthen organizational engagement and support, as measured by meeting attendance records and post-meeting feedback.
• To increase use of the CARES Center by online students, the CARES Center will launch a dedicated webpage that outlines available basic-needs resources.
• To assess remote students’ basic support needs the CARES Center will launch targeted campaigns to discover remote students’ challenges and resource awareness, including virtual Q&A sessions and surveys.
• The office of Gender Equity and Title IX will increase the number of student-involved sexual harassment prevention education sessions by 15%, as measured by session count and attendance records.
• To support student completion and strengthen connections the Center for Student Involvement will design and implement a comprehensive co-curricular engagement strategy. The strategy will lead to a 30% increase in student engagement as measured through participation data and engagement surveys.
• The Office of the Dean of Students and Academic Engagement will collaborate with ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Online to research the feasibility and benefit of creating online-focused communities for remote learners.

Year 2 (2026-2027) Objectives:

• The Center for Adult and Veteran Services will create co-curricular offerings and engagement strategies for non-traditional students by leveraging the work of the Adult Learner and Parenting Student Task Forces resulting in increased engagement of the population by Division of Student Life units as measured by pre- and post-strategy adoption survey results.

Year 3 (2027-2028) Objectives:

• The Center for Adult and Veteran Services will create an impact report of non-traditional student engagement strategies by assessing the population resulting in 80% or more of participants agreeing or strongly agreeing that they feel like they belong and are appropriately engaged as measured by focus groups and a student survey instrument.
• The Center for Student Involvement will launch a student leadership peer mentor network that will allow students to support students with their student organization needs and questions.

Divisional Goal 1.3 – Foster lifelong learning and career readiness through improved communication and problem-solving skills.

Year 1 (2025-2026) Objectives:

• Counseling and Psychological Services will increase clinical capacity by partnering with academic colleagues. This increase in training positions will also provide graduate students with experiential learning opportunities.

Year 2 (2026-2027) Objectives:

• A divisional working group will provide structure and guidance for a student-led professional development conference for all Division of Student Life student employees.

Year 3 (2027-2028) Objectives:

• A student-led professional development conference for Division of Student Life student employees will be executed.

Divisional Goal 1.4 – Cultivate leadership development, collaboration, resilience, and global awareness to thrive in a connected world.

Year 1 (2025-2026) Objectives:

• The Center for Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services will increase the number of students, staff, and faculty who receive evidence-based and data-driven prevention education by at least 5% annually during the next three years.
• To emphasize University Core Values, the Center for Student Involvement will launch a leadership series that shares critical skills such as communication, community building, conflict resolution, and teamwork. Resulting in 75% of attendees reporting increased knowledge of leadership and the university’s core values.
• To expand support for students through student organization programming and support, a new student organization allocation process will be implemented.
• To assist student organizations in fostering belonging and community, student leaders will participate in a Leadership Summit that emphasizes the university’s core values and achieves an 80% participant-reported increase in understanding their role in fostering belonging and community.
• To better support a thriving and vibrant campus community, the Center for Student Involvement will leverage the more than 350 registered student organizations to strengthen engagement and support for students. CSI will have held individual meetings with at least 85% of registered student organizations to ensure information and access to support and resources is available and understood.

Year 2 (2026-2027) Objectives:

• To ensure new student leaders are prepared for their roles, the Pepsi Leadership Center and Student Organization Success team within the Center for Student Involvement will co-create a series of transition workshops with success measured by pre- and post-assessments of students’ knowledge of policies, procedures, and available resources.
• The Student Organization Support team will create an established curriculum for student organization leaders that delivers on necessary skills and knowledge needed to be a successful student organization leader.

Year 3 (2027-2028) Objectives:

• The Community Action Fellows program will engage sixteen students in completing a year-long project within a ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Area of Impact (e.g., food security, civic engagement) and demonstrate growth and local impact through required pre- and post-program reflections.

Divisional Goal 1.5 – Develop a supportive and accessible environment, with attention on the cultivation of spaces and opportunities for self-expression.

Year 1 (2025-2026) Objectives:

• Faculty and staff who participate in Student Accessibility Services trainings will demonstrate increased awareness of how to support disabled students or foster accessibility by correctly identifying at least three effective support strategies in a post-training assessment, as measured by a survey.
• University Housing will complete a comprehensive evaluation of the current Living-Learning Program, using existing data, surveys, and focus groups, to create a new model for housing-based communities that will promote students’ sense of belonging.
• To address student, faculty, and staff concerns resulting from SB1 actions, the Division of Student Life in partnership with University Communications & Marketing will implement a campaign that emphasizes belonging and care to students.

Year 2 (2026-2027) Objectives:

• Conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the Flashes Parents and Families Council by interviewing all active participants, analyzing qualitative and quantitative feedback, and identifying three specific, evidence-based strategies to enhance family participation, engagement, and impact.
• The Center for Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services will reimagine gathering spaces and opportunities, with a focus on survivors, commuters, graduate students, and non-traditional students.
• Launch a pilot Arts Showcase in the ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Student Center for student artists and establish protocols for continuity of updates.

Year 3 (2027-2028) Objectives:

• The Center for Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services will develop a process for students to submit art that speaks to their student experience at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State to be displayed on the Judy Devine Gallery wall. Priority will be given to self-expressive art around violence prevention and survivors; however other self-expression will be considered.