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SP200 Community Feedback – Online Survey

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

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  • Reaching the across borders, discrimination, gender bias, and including as many as possible while maintaining the standard of excellence we are known for.
  • Strength of community. To be known as a prideful and unified family environment and home for the four years of undergrad and a lifelong network once the students leave. In the age of social media, it will be very powerful if alums, faculty and staff show their pride and sense of true community outwardly so that we attract young people that will continue to contribute to the reputation of the college. The students need to feel the support of the community by celebrating achievements across athletics and academics, with one celebrating the other in a genuine and reciprocal way.
  • A curriculum that is comprehensive and encompasses the literary classics and areas of study.
  • Continue the strong commitments to Liberal Arts education and improving the diversity of the environment.
  • Offering support and resources for first generation college students to achieve and succeed, lifting their families out of working poverty. This connects to the very powerful original mission of the College and its Dominican identity. Realistic repayment plans that are contingent on full time work post-graduation for first generation college students would be exciting to debut, and would help tackle the beast that is student debt.
  • Excellence in providing a well-rounded, 21st century liberal arts education, that recognizes the scholarship and cultures of peoples across the globe.
  • The college should go needs blind as it pertains to Admissions. This is the most noble, most compassionate, and most meritorious general approach to Admissions.
  • Producing graduates who are employed by top companies worldwide and are geared to be successful at the top graduate programs in the world.
  • Greater inclusion on all levels-faculty, staff and students
  • As an elite liberal arts / undergraduate institution, we should be striving to be like our aspirant schools (Villanova, Holy Cross, BC, and others) and outpacing them.
  • Counseling program
  • Known as the leading college in the United States that provides a distinctly Dominican-based approach to what the Western Civilization tradition of inquiry offers students to help them make their way as leaders in the 21st century.
  • Well rounded school with a quality degree
  • An undergraduate focused Catholic college with a faculty devoted to their students and their achievement of high academic standards.
  • Excellence in higher education built on a strong foundation of Dominican/Christian values
  • Academics
  • Education for global citizenship
  • Somehow measure quality of future employees PC Creates. Job Placement rate is one measure. But creating students who are articulate, strategic in their thinking, willing to put their time in, understand the role that technology should (and shouldn’t) play in their lives.
  • An institution that responds to Jesus’ call in the Gospel to love and service to God and neighbor
  • Diversity
  • Its business school
  • A strongly Catholic and Dominican college where the liberal arts guide our academic education for all academic disciplines
  • Providing a quality education
  • The liberal art education
  • A great core curriculum.
  • Being a safe space for students of color (not focusing on quotas or numbers, but focusing on campus climate itself so that students feel welcome when they come here). Celebrating diversity in different ways– beyond just race.
  • Academic Excellence, rooted in a traditional liberal arts education but also forward-thinking in terms of pedagogical approaches, cutting edge research, etc. The best blend of tradition and progress.
  • An uncompromising commitment to Catholic values and teachings that prepares students to live moral lives.
  • Good academics that consider the whole person – graduating responsible adults that can make a difference.
  • Welcoming diverse campus. Solid academic reputation.
  • The excellence of the total- education that it provides to its students
  • A non-secular, unbiased school that is not focused on business but focused on a wide range of topics that will prepare us for jobs and for life by helping us in our faith and knowledge.
  • PC should be known for being a school where the atmosphere is at once authentically Catholic and intellectually rigorous.
  • The success of graduates within only a few years of graduating.
  • Quality of student experience both in and out of the classroom
  • A liberal-arts education that is strongly Catholic in the following senses: (1) fully engaged with the Catholic intellectual tradition; (2) in direct and ongoing conversation with the Church, locally and globally; (3) deeply integrated with “Catholic” elements of campus life such as Campus Ministry, the Theology Dept., etc.
  • A virtues-based (note: not values-based) education. Virtues are seldom spoken of – anywhere – these days and colleges are confusing or, worse, purposely conflating virtues and values. A Dominican, Catholic college should be on the front lines in this fight – the cardinal virtues and theological virtues offer a foundation upon which all majors should reflect on in the DWC program and be asked to integrate into their chosen fields of study.
  • Great academics.
  • Should be known for business with strong core catholic and liberal arts values
  • Our close-knit community.
  • Diversity, compassion, community service, liberal arts higher education. Also, I feel like as a liberal arts Christian college, we should be taking a strong stand against the discriminatory practices in current politics.

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  • PC should be known for miraculously shedding it’s WASP culture (yes even though it is a Catholic university) and becoming a more accepting and less puritanical place.
  • A primarily undergraduate institution with a liberal arts core
  • It seems like at this rate, it will be rampant sexual assault, excessive drinking, and racism.

5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 Question 2: What should the college be doing in the next 10­20 years that it isn’t doing today?

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  • More affordable for students
  • We would be wise to invest in the surrounding community in a more visible way as much as we have invested in the campus itself. Being someone that interacts with lots of “prospective students” I hear a great deal of concern about the safety of Providence simply because of the appearance of the surrounding community.
  • More on-line classes for SCE.
  • Contain the cost of tuition. It is enormously burdensome. Promote independent thinking in students and tolerance of diversity of perspective among students. Also, I have heard from homosexual students that they do not feel valued on this campus at times. I think they feel tolerated- which is much different. This does not seem to be an issue among their fellow students, but rather within the college environment in general.
  • As health care seems to fall through out fingers, anti-immigrant rhetoric gets louder, and reliable, meaningful jobs in Providence become more scarce, especially for people of color, we can expect the low-income neighborhoods surrounding PC to be especially hard-hit. Dedicating more resources and more effort to building cooperative, non-patronizing relationships with the surrounding neighborhoods will only become more essential (first because it is the right thing to do as Christian neighbors, but also) to reduce the risk of class tensions escalating to violence. Offering business, language, and other community classes for low-income people who live around PC would be a great place to begin. Waiving tuition for the families who work as janitors and food service workers (and their children) would be another.
  • All students should have some sort of short-term international immersion experience. Whether through a semester long study abroad, faculty led Maymester program, Global Studies global service-learning course, or a Campus Ministry trip. The students that currently participate in these kinds of programs often cite their experience as one of the most transformative learning experiences of their college career…why not ensure that more students could have such an experience, while also preparing them to work in our globalized world?
  • The college should reduce the gap between need and aid award to zero. Currently it appears that the award is approximately 80-85% of need. Reducing that 15-20% gap is beneficial. The college should consider a reduction of “merit-based” aid and focus more on “need-based” aid. It could consider naming or awarding the last 10% of all need based aid merit if it desires, as the needs blind admissions focus would be more meritorious anyway. After fulfilling the first two items, the college should consider reducing the overall loan amounts to UG students to $25,000 or below. Students are coming out of college with heavy debt burdens, it appears. The college should try to consider a requirement of more support from the non-custodial parent. In many cases, this parent is the stronger one financially and can support more of the student’s needs.
  • The college could return to “more of its roots” by adding a new “specialty” focus to admissions. Just as Admissions considers gender, ethnicity, first generation, geographic and international issues as key to their overall enriched admissions plan, they could also consider increasing the Rhode Island population and in specific parishioners to this list. It appears that Rhode Islanders have decreased from 13% to 8% over the last 16 years. The Rhode Island numbers may have even been higher in years before 2000. A reasonable goal may be to sustain 15% Rhode Islanders. Further, of the Rhode Islanders, half might be parishioners of Rhode Island. Another important specialty focus that by default is eroding is economic or income diversity. This could seriously jeopardize the richness of the Admissions program. The middle income group, not unlike the country, is disappearing, with potential negative consequences. Could a metric be developed to insure that we not only have high and low income students, but middle as well?
  • The college could consider more on-line/mentor/teacher blended courses for basic instructional courses. By that is meant that typical “101” courses – entry level courses to any particular discipline – might be the best on-line courses available in the country, but paired with a specific teacher/mentor who helps guide the students through the course and keeps the student motivated. There have been studies which suggest that for some students, on-line courses are more advantageous, yet there are detriments to on line courses. These detriments might be mitigated with an instructor who does not teach the course but serves as a mentor and guide to strengthen the student and the course material. This might free up faculty to spend more time on their specialty courses, offering a more enriched discipline program. It may also be used to potentially reduce faculty resources spent to teach generic program courses. With this approach, faculty could possibly move away from teaching the basics to teaching even more of the interesting, enlightening courses in their field.
  • The college could consider making a commitment NOT to   a) reduce the medical contribution it provides to employees for medical expenses b) reduce the pension contribution it provides to employees to TIAA-CREF nor require the employee to contribute in order to “earn” it. [The average person doesn’t have $450 in a savings account. How can a person earning $30-$50,000 park up to 6% or $1,800 – $3,000 a year in pension? Many live hand to mouth and can barely afford rent. As it is, given what is being currently recommended, even if an employee does contribute 2.9% or less, their overall contribution of PC money and their own money would be less than what they’re getting today And they had to donate 2.9% to even get there, where they didn’t have to in the past. There should be demonstrated proof that this pension sharing contribution approach has actually increased the total contribution made to a person’s pension at other schools. We should not simply copy what other schools are doing. c) reduce the medical plan benefits it currently provides employees given rising medical costs, especially pharmaceutical costs.   This would signal enduring compassion and commitment to both faculty and staff. “
  • Stop raising tuition or meet 100% of financial need for ALL students
  • Promote/advertise academic/research achievements by faculty & students-we need to brag more about accomplishments – creating more corporate sponsorships/connections to improve internship opportunities for students-create more short-term international travel opportunities for students-seek further diversity in the faculty
  • Grow its endowment
  • Investing in academics. Faculty hires, endowed chairs, programs (interdisciplinary etc.) and more
  • To develop the international market, and recruit more international students.   I can help. My contact information is available in the survey data.
  • It needs to be more publicly confident that its Dominican approach to learning is what is needed today. It needs to increase its visibility in markets outside of New England.
  • It needs to make sure that its effort to include ethnic or racial minorities doesn’t unintentionally segregate or balkanize the student body and doesn’t dilute the strength of the DWC program. The Catholic Church is universal, across all cultures and all historical epochs, and ultimately that’s the strength of the program.
  • Investing more in the science department
  • Ensure that all of our students, regardless of major, learn to write coherently and demand more academic accomplishments from bureaucratic overseers. Also, cut back on them.
  • Leverage technology to its fullest to attract and retain the best and brightest diverse body of students from around the world
  • Making it harder to get into. Only accepting students with a solid 4.0 GPA
  • Become less sexist, less disinclining of women in real leadership positions
  • I have a student there now. It’s going very well, I have no specific suggestion here. I love that DWC is still a component of the curriculum.
  • Asking even more questions as to how to make the College a school for the Providence community. What about the youth and the communities who live outside the campus? What can we do to offer them opportunities to come to PC?
  • Fixing the diversity issue/the sexist remarks our campus and many of its clubs foster
  • Increasing diversity, improving the food! Allowing students to graduate early if they have enough credits.
  • Building up the Catholic and Dominican identity, and bringing world renowned scholars to bolster our academic prestige.
  • Upgrading residence halls, focusing on all students and not just athletes
  • Promoting diversity. The school is having a wonderful studying abroad program. It shows that the PC students are very curious about other cultures and are willing to explore them. I truly support this trend of PC, especially when we are in the 21st century. Yet, as an international student, I believe diversity includes, well, a diverse study body. The most important and available metrics that an international can have are, well, rankings, endowment, promotion, etc. Even through I understand that PC value would go far beyond any mere number, I believe that PC can work on this issue. I truthfully and practically realize that PC’s strengths can be compatible to those of top educational institutions in the United States.
  • Recruit faculty who are committed to teaching undergraduate classes at all levels.
  • We should develop a formal group of Prerequisite Concentrations which can be achieved within the Core Curriculum and within the requirements of our current majors to prepare our students to be competitive in gaining entrance into certain Graduate Programs. Currently in ESE we advise many students across campus about Speech and Language Pathology Graduate Program prerequisites. Through six courses, Introduction to Communication Disorders, Statistics, Human Biology, Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism (at RIC), Introduction to Audiology (at RIC) and Linguistics (PC Independent Study) students have a greater chance of gaining SLP Graduate School entrance. The UG Dean has been very supportive in this effort by cross-enrolling students in the needed RIC courses, and the other recommended courses can all be taken at PC. The ESE Department has developed a handout of guidelines summarizing the American Speech Hearing Language Associations (ASHA) graduate program prerequisite requirements for advising students interested in this area. Additionally ESE has a SLP Prerequisite Committee chaired by Dr. Kate Keating with Committee members Dr. Hauerwas, Dr. Allcock, and Dr. Zipke . Currently we have helped about 15 students across campus prepare for SLP Graduate School. I think the College could develop Prerequisite Concentrations in other areas such as Nursing, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy. I feel that by doing this we could increase our marketing to students wanting a Catholic and Dominican Identity, as well as a Liberal Arts Education, and develop a strong foundation from within PC for Graduate studies in these very popular disciplines.
  • Celebrating nontraditional ideas of diversity. Viewing students as co-creators in their education (it does not always have to be so top-down).
  • Investing in STEM and the Humanities. Creating endowed chairs or rotating chairs for existing faculty to improve their scholarship, engage in public intellectual work, and make a name for PC. Supporting students with scholarships and increasing access. Also, green energy and policies. We are so far behind our competitors when it comes to our sustainability practices. Ensuring a greener community, with a sustainability officer, climate action plan, better recycling, etc. is vital for future generations and consistent with our Catholic mission of being stewards of this earth.
  • It should be hiring teachers that are willing to take oaths of fidelity to the teachings of Holy Mother Church.
  • Offer more aid to students interested in Science and Math.   We need to also improve our computer science program.   Compared to peer schools – we are lacking (and I’m not a computer science faculty member).
  • Expansion of the diversity of the College’s student, faculty and staff. A lot of positive work has been done, as such keep up this essential effort.
  • Trying to make the College a more hospitable and attractive place for students who want to excel academically, especially to first generation college students.
  • Be Catholic
  • Inviting and incorporating the whole campus community—faculty, staff, and students—into the Dominican charism and identity. Few of the lay people on campus can easily articulate that identity, and even fewer know how to appropriate and incorporate it into their lives and work here at PC.
  • Emphasizing on computers! Offering basic programing classes, make computer applications in business more rigorous (I personally wish I got a little more out of the class).
  • Focusing on student needs. Improved housing conditions, parking, and dining are essential as the school grows in size.
  • Offering “thick,” multi-pronged support to first-generation students on campus.
  • The College is uniquely positioned to offer an authentic and brave traditional education based on virtue. All corners of the college – including the new PCSB – could devise a creative delivery of these virtues in their classes, in their research and in the character of the campus. The current climate looks too distracted by identity politics and the causes of the day to do this but it’s a shame – while there is so much potential to truly differentiate and provide applicants with something different, the college appears poised to be become like everyone else.
  • Continue to understand the complexities of college tuition and fees to make things affordable for students of all socioeconomic backgrounds.
  • Focusing on student life. So improving dorms (st joes is gross) or building new dorms, finding a new food service because that’s what students want.
  • Emphasis on incorporating technology into more facets of education. Have every student get exposed to a computer science class.
  • Focus on promoting the amazing visual and performing arts programs in order to fully reflect the true Dominican mission.
  • Developing practitioner faculty positions outside of the business school context.
  • Prioritizing current students and making sure their time here is enjoyable instead of prioritizing alumni and donors.
  • Engaging the local community – focusing on K-12 preparation and partnership opportunities between PC and local high schools (living our mission); creating deeper support opportunities for diverse students once they get here
  • Actually dealing with sexual assault/relationship violence, and racist issues on campus through fair and unbiased Title IX Investigations that would be finalized by external investigators that do not care about protecting the school’s reputation.

7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 Question 3: If you had $100Million+ new money to spend, how would you spend it?

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  • Community Outreach programs to encourage young people to work hard for academic success and connect them w/ teens who receive scholarships. Dedicate a building on campus solely for this purpose and allow them and their families to feel welcome.
  • Purchase the remainder of Huxley Avenue and a small section of Admiral Avenue to create a safe haven of shopping and restaurants for our students and the community in order to draw fans to campus for athletic events and to invest in the surrounding community.
  • That spending would include philanthropy and it would be gifted to organizations who embrace Christian action.
  • Lower the burdensome tuition. Improve the dorms and dining facilities
  • I would pay some in taxes to the City, and the rest to create a greenhouse and multi-disciplinary environmental studies hub on campus, perhaps in the business school. We should assume that environmental crisis will only find its way into classroom discussions and the economic futures of our students more readily in the years to come.
  • To fund short-term international immersion experiences for all students!
  • Financial Aid – but not parked in Endowment, where you can only use 4.5% annually. Also, stock market may reduce endowment if you park it there.
  • Invest in the students and faculty – not just the infrastructure. Increase student employment opportunities on campus. Offer more faculty research grant opportunities.
  • Upgrade McVinney study lounges that have a million dollar view. This is a Freshmen dorm…. great selling point on tours when upgraded.
  • Add at least $25 million directly to the endowment, offer significantly more merit-based awards, specialized scholarships for students from non-local territories, create travel reimbursement budget for prospective students who wish to visit and annual budget for visiting high school counselors, rehab older residence halls, return several athletic programs to campus and introduce 1-2 additional teams, add a few new majors/programs (2-3) & make some current minors, full majors.
  • Provide more housing on campus for students
  • Academics and the construction of on campus academic facilities.
  • Expansion of the campus and develop International market.
  • PC is too good not to be better. Therefore, I’d spend most of the money simply making better those things that best distinguish PC: reinforcing the Dominican identity, making sure the DWC program stays strong, paying for more Dominicans to teach at the college, fortifying the family atmosphere on campus (probably trying to tone down the off-campus partying), and making sure the students have the resources they need to succeed after they graduate. I also would ramp up the study abroad program; its internal operations need to be improved.
  • Put it towards biology department to offer more classes and hire more professors
  • I would devote a lot of it to scholarships so that deserving students of any background would not be priced out of all we have to offer. I would also devote some of it to faculty salaries so that we wouldn’t fall behind comparable institutions.
  • Scholarship for deserving students, further development of on-campus housing designed to contemporary needs of students, faculty development
  • On professors
  • Scholarships for able students from low-income families and outreach to the wider Providence, RI community with workshops on global citizenship and Catholic spirituality
  • Renovate Library – it doesn’t fit with the other buildings. Create more suites/apartment style living for upper classmen.
  • Investment in student scholarships, as well as college preparatory programs for students in the local community, as well as partnerships with local programs. Let’s take the College’s existing relationships with the community and deepen them so as to offer new and fruitful opportunities for members of the community to earn a degree from PC.
  • Adding in more diversity programs/healthier dining food (get rid of Sodexo)
  • Build a student body with greater diversity. Use the money to give financial aid to underserved populations such as Latinas, African American students
  • Develop nursing and engineering programs; build or acquire a retreat center off campus that could be used for retreats conferences, staff development, etc.; and build a new library
  • Improve the quality of the food, upgrade the residence halls
  • Most would go to increase the education value. We already have a beautiful and modern campus. Therefore, those money can be used for financial aids (to attract good students from different backgrounds), increase ranking (to promote the school’s reputation), tighten relationship with alumni (I know some schools even have a building for alumni to stay when visiting school), and integrate technology (the business school is a great example).
  • By replacing part time faculty with full time.
  • More money would go into the cultural center being made out of Moore Hall (at students discretion to use). We need another dorm building. In addition to this, less money should be spent on business and more money should be created to actually give space to majors like Women’s Studies, Computer Science, etc. Currently, they are in the basement of the library and that is not fair.
  • Honestly? Endowment. We’ve got to find a way to boost that in order to support our academic and institutional aspirations.
  • I would spend it on a new facility for the Theology and Philosophy departments, because they should be the capstone departments of a Dominican Catholic School.
  • Better Science Facilities (more than just the improvements being done now) – and I should note that I am not a science faculty member (I am faculty).
  • Allow the College to attract a diverse student body. As we become more expensive, or as College is more costly, we need to help good students come here that will enrich our community (socially, economically, racially, etc.)
  • I’d see what I could do by way of improving financial aid packages and with whatever was left over after I’d done that I’d re-focus attention on the Liberal Arts and Sciences and especially on the Sciences and Mathematics.
  • Improve the dorms and reduce tuition
  • On campus basketball arena
  • I would create 2 endowed chairs in every major department on campus: one for a Dominican friar and one that is specifically devoted to engaging the mission of the school with that field, and which would be reserved for a lay faculty member (e.g., an endowed chair in “Economics and Catholic Social Thought” or “Religion and Psychology”). The former would guarantee that every student has the opportunity to learn from a friar who is deeply involved in his or her area of interest, while the latter would guarantee that the mission of the school is not the sole property or responsibility of the friars.
  • Upgrading the library. Incorporating more group study rooms (such as are in the Ryan business center), more desks for individual work, a bigger group project area, more computers, and upgrading the bathrooms! Additionally, I would like to see a basketball stadium built on/near campus. It would bring a greater amount of people to the campus for basketball games. This would help display our beautiful campus! An increase in student parking so that undergrads from far away places can drive to school. I myself have easily spent over $1,500 on Amtrak tickets in my time here at PC.
  • Better food, more on campus dining options for students
  • Support for faculty, including a large and comfortable “faculty lounge.” The latter could also be accomplished by housing the President at the priory and turning the presidential house into space for this, as well as for the formal functions the President hosts.
  • I would fund an endowed chair in each of the college’s schools in the area of a virtues-based education. These chairs would be responsible for developing school-based programs centered on teaching, applying and learning virtues. These chairs might together host an inter-disciplinary conference held on campus for Catholic educators from around the country. PC would become the brand known for virtues-based Catholic education. Hurry up – Catholic University’s business school has picked up on this need within the past 3 years and has a first-mover advantage.
  • To give scholarships for students who have earned it and to have more humanities forums for all students to enjoy.
  • New or updated dorms and new food service
  • I would allocate a quarter of it to scholarships, and I would use the remaining amount to fund educational innovation to ensure PC is on the cusp of technological advancement in the collegiate environment.
  • Parking lots! Day care. Arts College promotion. More diversity training FOR STUDENTS, as this is where I see the most troubling behavior.
  • Create full-time positions for adjuncts.
  • On academics, more useable books in the library, better cafeteria, enough housing so that people aren’t forced to live in tenements.
  • Investment in IT infrastructure to bring technology support to current time or addition to the endowment to provide scholarships on an annual basis
  • Sexual assault awareness, education (every semester), and external investigators (Kristie McCann). Bring “It’s On Us”, “One Love”, and “He For She” to campus.

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  • Research in education
  • Alumni and student pride. Providence College is still in the shadow of the Boston schools simply because our network is not as loud or as big.
  • Rigorous curriculum coupled with high graduation rates.
  • The success of our students- defined by their personal happiness and their contribution to society. Not by their incomes.
  • I think the College is doing a great job around student retention. We offer small class sizes, accessible faculty, and incredible student supports.   I’m proud to be a part of that. The graduation rate of students of color and first generation students is especially worth looking at more closely.
  • This is the hardest question for me to answer. Perhaps if students/alumni identify themselves as lifelong learners, critical thinkers, and civically engaged, community-minded individuals–after all, these are qualities that any employer would look for!
  • Commitment to students through financial aid and a truly diverse ethnic and income level population, and a commitment to faculty AND STAFF on benefits, motivating and attracting a highly qualified employee base.
  • Job placement for graduates and alumni giving to the annual fund
  • 4 year graduation rate and job/grad school placement – as the value of higher education and the value or need for liberal arts degrees continue to be questioned, these factors are still paramount in families minds in how they define success or what a “great school” is.
  • 100% post-graduation placement
  • The school’s reputation and profile. We want and need to continue to be selective and focused on the intellectual experience.
  • The faith. God made everything, and will still do that.
  • Whether PC is true to its roots as it moves through the 21st century. Mike Leonard’s video said it all. The key is to use the same founding principles and make them vibrant in a new time that brings new challenges.
  • Graduation rate and success after college
  • The character and intellectual ability of the students whom we graduate because that’s what we’re in business for.
  • PC graduates impact on society in public and private sector
  • The students and where they end up post graduation
  • Number of applications to undergraduate and SCE programs and number of Providence, RI community members who are attracted to workshops on campus
  • Engaged alumni. Number of potential candidates of alumni. I left PC 1990 with a sense of family in the friends I met there, and well prepared for my future. I want my children to experience the same feelings.
  • The most important measure of the college’s success would be its ability to shape students into educated, well-rounded individuals who pursue truth and act on that truth. Students who are able to pursue truth in their own lives and more importantly act upon that truth will be the ones who have fully succeeded.
  • Ability to have many people feel comfortable on this campus
  • That the integrity, work ethic and moral compass that Providence gives the students will serve them through their lifetime. When they leave PC, that they will always identify with it, and have fond memories
  • How faithful we are to the Catholic and Dominican identity of the college. Without this, we become the same as so many other colleges and lose the chance to provide a completely unique educational opportunity. If we utilize the Dominican charism to our advantage and infuse everything on campus with it, then PC can truly provide a one-of-a-kind education in the country.
  • The happiness of the students (during schooling and after graduation)
  • Clark University’s motto is “Challenge conventions”. Even though I do not have a good impression with that school, I can say that it strongly follows its motto. PC’s motto is Veritas. Therefore, I believe this should be the most important measure of the College’s success. How? Probably being bold and blatant, provoking the “politically corrected”, welcoming differences, etc. As uncomfortable as if it is unacceptable, Villanova can be a good example (I am not saying they are better than us!).
  • The happiness of students 5 years after graduation. Not the salary level, but the happiness level.
  • Being a diverse, safe space for students that is radically changing the way students view the whole world (NOT JUST THE WEST).
  • Student level of satisfaction with the educational experience. Giving students the abilities to not just get jobs, but get important and satisfying ones, all the while becoming better citizens and members of their communities. The measure should be not just economic value, but happiness as well.
  • The faith life of students should be the core indicator of success, because the Catholic Church’s ultimate goal is to help the church militant join the church triumphant in heaven.
  • Preparing for the future of students while they have fun. Don’t take away PC’s reputation of being a fun college. The culture that exists today will end and PC won’t be the same.
  • Our students’ success. The better our students do, the better we will be recognized.
  • Keeping open to both the changes and the tradition (Catholic and Dominican). That is, keep working to balance between the static and important part of who we and the dynamic and essential part of who we need to become.
  • I think an overlooked indicator of academic excellence in an individual department is the rate at which its graduates gain admission to reputable graduate programs because this measures not only how successful a department has been in nurturing and developing a student’s abilities and interests but also of a department’s reputation with it peer-group. So I feel that the College should have a target for the number of admissions to Level 1 university graduate programs in the arts and sciences.
  • The ability to have students move on to actual jobs or even higher education after college because it shows that PC prepared us for life after college instead of focusing on just statistics that make the school seem good.
  • Their understanding of, and ability to live out, the truth of the gospel after graduation, because what makes PC unique is the fact that it shares in the mission of the Dominican Order to preach the truth for the salvation of souls.
  • There is no one correct way to measure a College’s success. However, I believe the amount and quality of high school applicants applying to the school is the best indicator. The school is doing well getting more and more good quality high schoolers to apply in recent years. I would say keep up the great work and keep working to increase these things.
  • Happiness of its students, because that should take priority over everything else
  • The lives alums lead. Our goal is large and difficult-to-measure: forming intellectually energetic and competent Christians and citizens.
  • Concentrated faculty research produced in the area of virtues, educational deliverables (assignments, projects, etc.) involving student application of the cardinal and theological virtues and employers who actively recruit from PC knowing they are getting grads who can critically think and make decisions based on the good, the right and the moral.
  • The amount that students have learned before and after college.
  • Success of alumni and how happy students are we how the school is actually catering to them because pc can be great but if it isn’t backed by alumni or students that why would anyone go here, what value would pc really have.
  • Besides the degree, how many graduates felt their experience was worth their tuition? Everyone who graduates will have the title, and that applies to every college. Not everyone will have the same salaries, but as a collective consensus, if graduates continue to say the networks, relationships and values instilled through their institution are still paying their dividends, I believe that has incredible value as well.
  • That those endangered by the current political environment be protected, that there greater diversity and that we’ve given back to the community around us, including to homeowners in the area plagued by the party culture 9 months a year and also those in need in outlying areas. Also, we need to take care of our staff and faculty. We should be able to donate unused sick and vacation time. There should be flexibility in hours for staff with children or sick parents/partners. Often we are left to feel like we do not matter as humans. We are expected to perform more and more with not much pay increase. As a result, our personal lives suffer. Thank you.
  • Its students’ ability to reason and think, both verbally and in writing.
  • Happiness of students and active accumulation of knowledge. Students should not be complacent in taking mindless requirements.
  • acceptance rate and yield; alumni participation
  • SAFETY. No student can become successful if they do not feel safe and do not feel like they are heard, especially if their perpetrator(s) remain(s) on campus. Find the perpetrators accountable.
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Source: http://library.providence.edu/fhertr/index.php/sp200-community-feedback-online-survey/