Slippery Rock University MSCHE 2011 Self-Study
Chapter One
submitted its 2006 Periodic Review Report. Our Liberal Studies Program Committee has required all departments teaching courses within the program to submit plans demonstrating how student learning outcomes designated for those courses will be assessed. Departments have begun reporting results demonstrating student achievement of course outcomes. Liberal Studies courses must also be incorporated in the earlier-discussed degree coherence matrices, making visible the roles such courses have in meeting the learning goals of degree programs. To date, 78% of all Liberal Studies goal courses have approved assessment plans and it is expected that changes based on those assessments will begin to directly influence program content and teaching approaches. Standard 7-A and B, Standard 11-D, Standard 12-F, and Standard 14-K and S
Student Life Several of the ways this division works to make Slippery Rock University a premier public residential university have already been mentioned in the discussion of how the institution has managed its enrollment growth over the past decade. Student Life personnel strive to apply best practices in all offered services, including the Office for Multicultural Development, the Counseling Center, and Student Health Services, as well as among the members of the Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT). Given the university’s aspirations, one of the greatest challenges in recent years has been to create a campus atmosphere in which a variety of cultural perspectives and experiences are accepted and honored. As a rural campus with a student body primarily made up of people who grew up in a historically dominant culture, Slippery Rock University must consciously work towards being a welcoming place for students who are of different backgrounds. Standard 2-A, Standard 6-G, and Standard 9-A and B Figure 1.4: October, 2010 a campus climate survey was presented to all faculty, staff and students at SRU. The response rate of the survey was 25% (N=10,243) . Results of the survey will be shared with the campus community in Spring 2011 .
That work is extensive and ongoing. Several offices and presidential commissions offer educational programming intended to foster tolerance, understanding, and appreciation of peoples and cultures with ethnic or gender identities distinct from those of the majority of students. Services and programs are offered by the Women’s Center, the International Services Office, the Office of Multicultural Development, and the Frederick Douglass Institute. There are four President’s Commissions: Status of Women; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning and Intersex (LGBTQI); Racial and Ethnic Diversity; and Disability Issues, along with a Presidential Task Force for Cultural Awareness. In fact, such efforts have become so numerous and have spawned such a variety of activities that a lack of coordination in both fact-finding and programming became a discernible problem. To address that lack, the president created a new position in Fall, 2009, a Senior Officer for Diversity and Inclusion. Standard 5-D and J, and Standard 6-G The Senior Officer for Diversity and Inclusion reports to the President and provides leadership in the development, implementation, and maintenance of policies, programs, and systems to achieve 25 | P a g e