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Friars Club Big Thinking Session

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2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 I. What should Providence College be best known for? (What should we be known for?)

1.  The essence of community

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  • Community that helps, fosters, and caters to not only the student body but also anyone that matters and creates this community
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    • The school is open to everyone with equal opportunities
    • “We are here for each other,” especially emphasized during such time of crisis
    • Faculty and staffs working in unison with students

2.  Student ownership of their education

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  • Excellence in business and science majors
  • Emphasis on ethics in academics, in addition to the idea of being a liberal arts college
  • Research and financial support
  • The well-rounded experience of finding oneself in what they major

3.  Faculty support

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  • The inclusion of diversity
  • The relationship of our school with the surrounding environment to which we always remember to give back and create great relationship within and outside the community

10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 II. What we are not doing that we should have done or should do or should do better?

1.  Academic diversification

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  • More emphasis on diversifying majors, curriculum, and application
  • Certain majors not providing a corresponding minor, and vice versa
  • Aiding in matching advisors to the students’ specific interests for the students’ benefit of pursuing their career pathway

2.  Department improvement

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  • Inclusion of ALL majors for all students, in regards to the career center and its service (i.e. Career Expo, Alumni Networking, Internship)
  • The career education center is not necessarily helpful for science major
  • Study abroad and Center of International Studies
  • Improving on allocating resources on campus

3. Academic pursue

4.  Financial Aid

26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 III. If you have $100 million, what would you do?

1.  Financial bridge

2.  Residential and social aspect

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  • Construction of another dorm and the huge financial gap of living in one residential building vs. others
  • Another student centers, besides new construction of sport fields
  • Student feedback
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    • Group meeting and alternative ways to help students, who are not executive members, attend the meeting
    • New ways of receiving student feedback (open forum)

3.  Extracurricular and Student affairs

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  • Allocation of money for creating and improving clubs
  • Create more programs
  • More fund towards Fr. Smith Fellowship Program and Service Learning programs
  • The quality of the food and nutrition on campus
  • The relationship between Sodexo and employee staffs is conducted poorly

33 Leave a comment on paragraph 33 0 IV. How do we measure our success, as a college?

1.  Post-graduation success

2.  Alumni network

3.  Admission

4.  Research

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