RIT - Student Affairs Assessment

CENTER	2009-10 ONGOING PROJECTS
Academic Support Center	The Academic Support Center will conduct an assessment of the ASC Math/Physics Study Center services in Bates Study Center. Specific target questions include: • Is this a viable collaboration between the ASC and COS? • Are students accessing the services at the same rate, lesser rate, increased rate than in previous years? • Is the facility in Bates adequate and appropriate for tutoring services? • Are there special challenges to supervising tutors providing services in this location?
Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation	The Center for Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation seeks to understand how the work of the center impacts school spirit and to what degree.
Campus Life	The Center for Campus Life seeks to engage in a center-wide assessment of structure and practice. To this end the center will conduct a best practices and current practices evaluation.
Counseling Center	The Counseling Center seeks to gain an enhanced understanding of the nature and severity of students seeking counseling services.
Disability Services	The Disability Services Office will complete a project designed to understand how they might help students with disabilities become more independent and skilled at taking notes.
English Language Center	The English Language Center will undertake a survey to determine what affect the ELC has had on the lives of students after leaving the program. We will also seek suggestions for improvement.
First Year Enrichment	FYE will assess how the program can adapt with respect to the requirements of the Greater Expectations plan. A specific foucs will be on setting a process in place to map out stages of change that will bring about a successful metamorphosis of the program.
HEOP	The RIT HEOP office will conduct an assessment to address the following question: Would a 5-week pre-college program that includes a credit-bearing course in addition to a skills curriculum further enhance the successful transition of new HEOP students from the pre-college program into the first year at RIT? Means of Assessment: • gather information from other baccalaureate colleges whose HEOP pre-college program includes a credit-bearing course • conduct a student satisfaction survey at the end of winter quarter to evaluate the degree to which this year's incoming HEOP students believe the existing summer program prepared them for RIT coursework in their first two quarters • hold student and faculty focus groups to evaluate the rigor of the coursework in the pre-college program as compared to regular RIT classes • complete a projected cost analysis of extending the program to include a 5-week credit-bearing liberal arts course
International Student Services	ISS can be valuable to engaging RIT students in a more meaningful way with the global community. To this end the ISS Office will be looking more closely at some programs that bring international and domestic students into closer contact, and how the outcomes of such contact can be evaluated.
Leadership Institute & Community Service	RLI & CSC would like to address two main questions this year. The first is, “What skills are students developing in their leadership roles and how is the experience preparing them to be effective leaders in their professional lives?” Additionally, the CSC would like to know what are the best practices for service learning and community service programs and what could the CSC do differently to better educate and engage our students in social issues. To address these questions the RLI will develop an assessment tool to measure student leader skill development, create a survey and possiblly run focus groups. The CSC will benchmark our current program against other universities and research different ways to educate and engage students in service initiatives.
Margaret's House	Margaret's House plans to gather and analyze data on why staff members leave their teaching positions and how to improve retention of staff members. While Margaret's House does not experience the very high turnover rate that a number of child care centers deal with, we find that we have been losing 1 or 2 staff members each year.
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Orientation
Religious Life	The Center for Religious Life will assess the newly operative CRL Facebook site as a vehicle to facilitate student/staff communication and information over the 2009-1010 academic year. This assessment will examine the CRL Facebook as one means to provide and enhance programming, services and opportunities that contribute to the creation and support of a strong RIT community.
Residence Life
Student Conduct and Conflict Management	The Student Conduct and Conflict Management Office seeks to understand the impact Disciplinary Suspension has on the academic success of a student at RIT. Specific metrics to be included in the analysis are: GPA (prior to and following suspension), return rate to RIT, and graduation rate.
Student Health Center	The SHC seeks to understand the impact/value of students' experiences with the Volunteer Ambulance Corps in preparing them "to live a life" beyond RIT. While the value added to the community has been reviewed, there has not been an attempt to formally evaluate the value of participation to the volunteer students themselves.
TRiO	TRiO would like to assess the degree to which TRiO support (i.e. tutoring, working with math instructor, personal, etc.) makes an impact on students' retention, graduation, and good academic standing? A snapshot of this now and in two years, following some major programmatic changes, will provide valuable data.
Women's Center	The Women's Center seeks to understand how the RIT Women's Center compares to centers at other technology and innovation universities. The analysis will involve a comparison of programs and services at benchmarking institutions and an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of our center as reported by key stakeholders. Collecting and analyzing this information will help us identify priorities for future planning of our programs and services.