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Residence Assistants, Hall Council, Off-Campus Coalition

1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Session: Residence Assistants, Hall Council, Off-Campus Coalition
Date: March 1, 2017
# Attendees: 100

2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 Question 1: If PC were to be best known for 1 thing (only) within the next 10­20 years what should it be?

3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 Diversity, Equality, & Support

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  • Diverse and inclusive
  • Equal Opportunity, so every student has an equal opportunity for education/resources
  • Diverse and inclusive
  • Acceptance of all backgrounds, endurance through turbulent times
  • Support for minority students
  • Diversity/inclusiveness
  • Opportunity for all
  • Cultural appreciation/inclusive atmosphere
  • More acceptance of students who are undocumented immigrants
  • Diversity and inclusiveness
  • Endurance referring to diversity, good support systems/staff during tough times

5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 Academics

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  • Quality of education
  • A great education
  • High quality education
  • Transferable credits
  • High quality professors
  • Well-rounded education for students through the core curriculum
  • Better advising
  • Credits that can transfer
  • Academic rigor with well-rounded students (can perform outside the classroom, students that think on their feet)
  • More real world experience/opportunities
  • Close to liberal arts roots
  • Demands of STEM major is overwhelming
  • Creation of 10 new majors/minors ­ need more diversity and making more majors available as a minor

7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 Graduation & Career Services

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  • More support from career services
  • Expanded career services
  • Expansion of career expo, only business ­­> expand options of career genre
  • Expand career expo beyond just companies recruiting business majors
  • Bridging the gap between the college life and adulthood post-graduation
  • Making sure everyone is prepared and improving transition between graduation and workforce
  • Great graduation rate
  • High post­graduate employment rate with strong alumni connections
  • Retention of all students
  • Scheduled meetings with the clubs on campus/leaders of clubs on campus to increase student outreach.
  • More than a 4 year experience

9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 Community & Service

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  • Connection with the local providence community
  • Openness and community service
  • Community service
  • Connected to local neighborhood
  • The Friar Family
  • Having a great community
  • Great PC Community
  • Small Community, safe environment, the friar family
  • Forming lifelong friendships
  • Closer and comfortable residential communities for all

11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 Catholic Tradition & Beyond

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  • Students who resemble Catholic Values on and off campus
  • Being a traditional college that is quick to adapt and transform with the world
  • well-rounded intellectual formation intertwining Dominican values into everyday life
  • Students demonstrate Catholic and Dominican values in all parts of life
  • A school that promotes different point of views
  • Creating whole individuals
  • Producing exemplary students and citizens

13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 Athletics

15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 Financial Aid

17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 Size

19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 Misc.

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  • Excellent study areas
  • Great student services
  • Great food
  • Transparency of issues throughout/off campus (communication beyond mass emails)
  • Change mascot to a squirrel

21 Leave a comment on paragraph 21 0 Question 2: What should the college be doing in the next 10­20 years that it isn’t doing today?

22 Leave a comment on paragraph 22 0 Financial Aid, Tuition & Admission

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  • More financial aid
  • Meeting all financial aid need
  • Lower tuition
  • More need-based scholarships
  • More financial aid
  • Financial aid for everybody who needs it
  • Lower tuition
  • More scholarships overall
  • Consider more impoverished areas in the admissions process

24 Leave a comment on paragraph 24 0 Administration & Faculty

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  • More diverse faculty
  • Increased faculty diversity
  • Hire more diverse faculty
  • More one on one time with administrative and faculty
  • More visibility of leaders (ex: Father Shanley)
  • Improve faculty diversity
  • More professional professors
  • Better advisors
  • More diverse faculty members
  • More biology professors

26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 Residence Halls & Renovations

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  • Build new residence halls
  • We need more modern residence halls
  • Update/build new residence halls
  • Quality of residence halls, make halls representative of the quality of our school
  • Update Aquinas Hall
  • Renovate old classrooms
  • Been building new athletics facilities and classroom spaces, but not new places for use to live
  • Add a new library
  • Build a new residence hall
  • Add another pool or give increased access to the general student body

28 Leave a comment on paragraph 28 0 Food & Dining Options

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  • Improving food quality
  • More food choices
  • More dining options (add another dining hall)
  • More food options
  • Better food quality
  • More options for those with dietary restrictions
  • More places to use your meal plan
  • Increased hours or possibly a 24hr option
  • New dining hall
  • Healthier food options in alumni
  • Improve quality of food
  • Different/more food options
  • Add a “the Abbey” on campus

30 Leave a comment on paragraph 30 0 Diversity, Equality, & Support

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  • More diversity, and inclusivity on campus
  • Support for and retention of diversity of students (not just looking at statistics)
  • More diversity and inclusivity demonstrated by all on campus
  • Diversity and inclusivity demonstrated by ALL students
  • Mandatory training sessions for professors about race, religion, sexuality
  • Established multicultural center
  • Better services for underrepresented students

32 Leave a comment on paragraph 32 0 Academics

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  • Focus more on the classes that are needed in the science profession (emphasize strong basis that science departments have and build upon them)
  • More science/STEM classes
  • Attract a students who are interested in different studies (Nursing, PA, STEM classes)
  • Better and more efficient registration process
  • More majors and minors
  • More acceptance on picking up a minor outside of your major or your school
  • Engineering department shouldn’t force students to go to a different school senior year
  • Focus on more than just the money makers
  • More opportunities for the arts

34 Leave a comment on paragraph 34 0 Curriculum

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  • More diversity in curriculum
  • Better way to go about the diversity requirement­­>more standardized
  • Add more perspectives to curriculum
  • More diverse course options and course materials
  • Expand the academic program
  • There needs to be more classes counting for the core because there are a lot of classes that don’t count that should

36 Leave a comment on paragraph 36 0 Clubs & Organizations

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  • Having involvement fairs for specific interests
  • Increase funding for clubs/organizations
  • Support/promote student leadership and club creation
  • Enhancing communication from clubs for outreach to student body

38 Leave a comment on paragraph 38 0 Counseling Services & Mental Health

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  • Hire more counselors for the counseling center (constantly booked)
  • Have mental health workshops for professors
  • Greater emphasis on mental health awareness and breaking down stigma
  • More mental health initiatives

40 Leave a comment on paragraph 40 0 Department Resources

42 Leave a comment on paragraph 42 0 Going Green

44 Leave a comment on paragraph 44 0 Health Services

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  • Better health services, like being available on the weekends
  • Health center improvements (make it more of a clinic, longer hours, treatment options)

46 Leave a comment on paragraph 46 0 Housing, Policy & Accommodations

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  • Housing organization may need to be reevaluated, juniors living on campus will overcrowd housing options available in near future
  • Don’t require people to have certain meal plans
  • Revise the alcohol policy
  • Better accommodations for individuals moving in from a far distance (moving in early, support for regional differences)

48 Leave a comment on paragraph 48 0 Parking & Accessibility

50 Leave a comment on paragraph 50 0 Providence Community

52 Leave a comment on paragraph 52 0 Title IX

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  • Greater awareness of sexual assault and spreading sex education knowledge
  • Talk more about Title IX, safe sex, and consent
  • Provide more support for sexual assault victims

54 Leave a comment on paragraph 54 0 Misc.

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  • Better communication
  • More consistent with mission/transparent in decision making
  • Updated the shuttle system/route
  • Treat the athletes as regular students, not above the rest
  • Safe place for all religions, places of worship

56 Leave a comment on paragraph 56 0 Question 3: If you had $100Million+ new money to spend, how would you spend it?

57 Leave a comment on paragraph 57 0 Residence Halls & Renovations

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  • Renovate residence halls
  • Build new residence halls
  • Renovate and expand the library
  • Build more study spaces
  • Give each major its own building
  • Modernize existing residence halls
  • Expand the library, redo the existing
  • Build new residence hall
  • Renovate the library
  • Make a better “common grounds” coffee shop
  • Provide air conditioning for residence halls
  • Make the campus look more beautiful
  • Renovate residence halls
  • Give all departments money for renovations
  • Build at least one new, modern, residence hall
  • Renovate classrooms and bathrooms on campus
  • Renovate Aquinas, Fennell, Moore

59 Leave a comment on paragraph 59 0 Financial Aid, Tuition, & Admission

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  • More financial aid
  • Lower tuition
  • More tuition assistance
  • Assist in admitting new students
  • More/new scholarships
  • More scholarships
  • Reduce tuition
  • More financial assistance for students applying
  • Develop scholarships not related to honor’s program
  • More financial aid
  • Have less money going toward athletic scholarships

61 Leave a comment on paragraph 61 0 Food & Dining Options

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  • More food options
  • Improving food quality
  • New food provider
  • More food choices
  • More options of places to use your meal plan
  • More options for vegans and vegetarians
  • Better food quality
  • New dining facility
  • Get rid of Sodexo
  • Add a 24hr option
  • Lower prices on food options (in Slavin, etc.)
  • Add a student run work-study food court

63 Leave a comment on paragraph 63 0 Diversity, Equality, & Support

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  • Diversity training throughout campus, during freshmen orientation, etc.
  • Campus wide diversity training
  • Diversity training for all class years
  • New multicultural center
  • Create/add a multicultural center
  • A multicultural center

65 Leave a comment on paragraph 65 0 Parking & Accessibility

67 Leave a comment on paragraph 67 0 Student Services (General)

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  • Expand resource centers (health center, tutoring center, counseling center, etc.)
  • Expand fixit
  • Invest into better Wi-Fi and IT support throughout campus
  • More student resources – health services, tutoring, counseling
  • Expand fixit
  • Expand accommodation services

69 Leave a comment on paragraph 69 0 Administration & Faculty

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  • Expand amount of faculty on campus
  • More faculty
  • Diversify staff for professors in different departments
  • Have more evaluations on professors

71 Leave a comment on paragraph 71 0 Academics

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  • Have internship and coop programs built into some/all majors
  • Open some majors to having a minor option
  • Adopt more majors and minors, or more departments in general
  • Expand May-mester and study abroad opportunities
  • Theology expansion to other religions

73 Leave a comment on paragraph 73 0 Athletics

75 Leave a comment on paragraph 75 0 Clubs & Organizations

77 Leave a comment on paragraph 77 0 Department Resources

79 Leave a comment on paragraph 79 0 Health Services

81 Leave a comment on paragraph 81 0 Providence Community

83 Leave a comment on paragraph 83 0 Misc.

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  • Provide funds for students looking to pursue religious vocations
  • Improve shuttle system to provide students with more access to off campus
  • Increase the number of RA’s staffing Meagher Hall

85 Leave a comment on paragraph 85 0 Question 4: What should be the most important measure or indicator of the college’s success? Why?

86 Leave a comment on paragraph 86 0 Academics

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  • Quality education
  • A great education
  • Opportunity for people to fall in love with learning, holistic learning
  • Continued small class sizes
  • A great learning environment
  • More flexibility with Civ
  • Being able to apply majors
  • Engineering program: closer association (maybe Boston Schools)
  • Not just for business majors

88 Leave a comment on paragraph 88 0 Happiness, Growth & Success

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  • Student happiness levels and how they feel after college
  • The growth/development experienced during college, not just academic, but life
  • Growth and development of a student’s life is important measure of college’s success
  • Happiness with your life – post college
  • Longitudinal measures of happiness and success
  • Searching for challenge and adversity in relation to happiness
  • How the students feel during their stay and how what has been done improves later life
  • How happy/fulfilled alumni feel later in life
  • Delayed survey on success, allowing students to be in the workforce and reflect later

90 Leave a comment on paragraph 90 0 Alumni

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  • Strength of alumni network (alumni looking out for each other)
  • Alumni network
  • Alumni network
  • Alumni giving back (The more give back, the more found their experience valuable)
  • Alumni donations
  • Alumni donating and giving back
  • Asking why people are giving back and where they want to see their money go
  • Somehow capture the special affection that alumni still have long after graduation

92 Leave a comment on paragraph 92 0 Student Resources, & Support

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  • Supporting students in all aspects including ability to enter/exit: financial, mental health, cultural agility, LGBT efforts, sexual orientation, gender, class, etc)
  • Supporting ALL students from all backgrounds – economic, sexual orientation, race, gender
  • Supportive & strong resources (only as strong as your weakest link)
  • Strong support resources
  • Accessibility of resources
  • More resources for alumni with humanities majors
  • MLK scholar rates of retention are low because of a lack of resources
  • Accessibility of resources, like the Health Center and Personal Counseling Center

94 Leave a comment on paragraph 94 0 Retention, Employment & Debt.

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  • Retention rate
  • Retention
  • Employment, a return on the investment
  • Employment
  • Consistent reduction of students graduating with debt
  • Make tuition, books, living more affordable
  • Lower debt outside of college

96 Leave a comment on paragraph 96 0 Diversity, Equality, & Support

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  • Equality as a whole
  • Equality
  • Wanting more opportunity for all students to learn that growth and discomfort
  • Learning from each other’s struggles and combating them together
  • Selling the university as a diverse and inclusive institution
  • Knowledge in all identities
  • Overcoming stress and adversity as a person of color and get out of comfort zone
  • All social econ. & backgrounds must have support
  • Get out of comfort zone to better PC, try to burst the bubble PC lives in

98 Leave a comment on paragraph 98 0 Administration & Faculty

100 Leave a comment on paragraph 100 0 Beyond The Classroom

102 Leave a comment on paragraph 102 0 Community

104 Leave a comment on paragraph 104 0 Dominican

106 Leave a comment on paragraph 106 0 Internship & Career Opportunities

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  • Hands on working activities to go out and practice (whatever it is) in industry
  • Having more internships or co-op opportunities & not just during the summer
  • Expand business and career center

108 Leave a comment on paragraph 108 0 Misc.

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  • Allowing people to grow on their own
  • Make it more legit than something we say, but actual relationships and thriving
  • People will not thrive in work place unless happy with educational backgrounds
  • Wanting more equality in experience, not needing to struggle to find similar experience of the 80% of the students on campus
  • Ensuring students are not just going through the motions of education and are actually passionate about their studies
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