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Potential changes ahead for Student Affairs post consolidation University administrators are optimistic about the state of the student experience on each campus, despite the challenges.
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Consolidation of USF’s three campuses — Tampa, St. Pete, and Sarasota-Manatee — will become a reality by 2020. Departments are already beginning to prepare, including those within Student Affairs. Student Affairs essentially facilitates the college experience across campus. Some of the departments operating under it on the Tampa campus include the Center for Student Involvement, Campus Recreation, the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement and the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Although each campus has similar departments in their Student Affairs division, they are all personal to the specific
campus. How will USF attempt to consolidate such campusspecific departments then? That is a question that has yet to be answered, but the conversations have started. It is unclear at this time if such departments will be consolidated as well, or on which campus they will be housed. On Oct. 25, the Student Success Subcommittee of the Consolidation Implementation Committee, which has representation from each USF Student Affairs includes the departments generally responsible for the student experience, which may campus, met to begin talks of face changes after consolidation. ORACLE FILE PHOTO consolidation. No conclusions were reached, according to Vice President of optimism. recommendations on how to next month. Tampa’s Student Affairs and “There’s a lot of good work make this work,” Dosal said. The subcommittee first talked Student Success Dr. Paul Dosal. that can and should be done These recommendations must to USF’s Huron Consulting Group, However, what came out of this right now while we’re all focused be presented to the Consolidation n See CHANGES on PAGE 3 meeting was an initial spirit of on trying to develop a set of Implementation Committee by
Parking citation course expected to be in place by the end of the year By Alyssa Stewart A S S I S T A N T
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Student Government’s (SG) Judicial Branch and Parking and Transportation Services (PATS) created a cost-free class to teach students about the rules and regulations of parking on campus. Students can take this onehour class in lieu of paying a first-time parking ticket received on campus. Individuals are eligible to participate in the class for parking citations including
improper permit display, out of an assigned area, facing traffic, parking over the line or having no permit displayed on the vehicle, according to Peter Tiberini, the assistant director of PATS. However, they can only take this class once. They will be given the opportunity to take the course when appealing for the citation by selecting the class module option that will be given. The class will be held in a conference room located
in PATS, which can hold about 15 to 20 students during each session, according to Chief Justice Safa Shah Shah said SG and PATS are in the final stages of the project, but there is still a pending completion date for when the class will be available. The target completion date, according to Shah, is Nov. 4 or Nov. 5, but it may be prolonged due to finalizations within the Information Technology (IT) team — which is developing a system to track students who
have completed the course. Students who have completed the course will be recorded through the parking citation system, according to Aaron Nichols, the assistant director of Administrative Services. Contradictory to what Shah said, Nichols is expecting a later release day. “We are anticipating by the end of November, so students will be able to take the classes from then to early December,” Nichols said.
Although the dates are not set in stone, Shah said the class will either be held on a weekly or biweekly basis and will include multiple session times to accommodate student’s schedules. The parking citation class would consist of a presentation given by SG. According to Tiberini, the powerpoint has about 20 to 30 slides, which will take roughly an hour to complete.
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