The SENSES Project: It's good to have goals.

Visitors sometimes ask us, "What's the purpose of SENSES?" Great question! Below is our Project's goals and objectives.

SENSES Goals/Objectives:

1. Create a unique campus community to increase sense of belonging.

2. Positively impact retention and graduation rates.

3. Positively impact retention by providing opportunities for students interested in sound recording, regardless of major.

4. Provide students the opportunity to build marketable skills in sound recording, multi-modal creation, editing, teamwork, and collaboration.

5. Provide new mechanisms for faculty-led research to explore areas ranging from education to social work, music industry, sound recording, and writing and rhetoric.

6. Create a space where faculty can collaborate on interdisciplinary research. Future research topics could include: community formation, identity development, storytelling, dialogue, performance, poetry, learning and memorization, and other interdisciplinary investigations.

7. Situate Syracuse University as a model for other universities to follow by implementing a creative, cutting-edge, solution-focused intervention that improves campus climate by practicing the values of diversity and inclusion.