The 2019-2023 Plan

Student Housing and Residential Life supports its mission, vision, and values by focusing on the following strategic objectives and goals:

Physical Environments

Objective – Establish and enhance institutional and departmental brand with-in residential communities

• Envision opportunities to enhance aesthetics and décor.
• Update way-finding within residential buildings.

Objective – Maintain and enhance physical spaces

• Identify a cycle for common area furniture refresh.
• Create outdoor amenities and upgrade outdoor community spaces.
• Finish furnishing all residential apartment spaces within the University Lofts.
• Upgrade and enhance lock systems within residential facilities.
• Annually review and execute facility assessment plan.
• Increase cameras within residential facilities.

Objective – Execution of the Housing Master Plan

• Quad Replacement by August 2020.
• Moody Tower Replacement by FY 2022.
• Bayou Oak Project FY 2024.
• Graduate Student/Upper-Class Apartments by FY 2024.
• Graduate Student Family/Faculty and Staff Housing by FY 2025.
• Initiate refresh of Housing Master Plan by FY 2025.

Affordability

Objective – Explore avenues to increase fundraising efforts

• Build alumni and friends engagement opportunities.
• Explore potential grant opportunities to support funding efforts.
• Leverage new construction to foster additional giving opportunities.

Objective – Sustain initiatives that support affordability, access, and amenities within SHRL

• Collaborate annually and support existing scholarship opportunities.
• Annually evaluate rate structure.
• Assess and evaluate conference services and guest housing model.

Objective – Enhance and evaluate community development plan

• All staff will be able to articulate the purpose of the community development plan.
• Assess goals/objectives of community development plan.
• Increase the utilization of existing campus partner programming.

Objective – Increase the utilization of our Faculty in Residence

• Increase the number of Faculty in Residence.
• Review SHRL engagement in the structure of the Faculty in Residence Program.

Objective – Increase the offering of Living Learning Communities

• Execution of the Minority Male Leadership Living Learning Community.
• Execution of the First Generation Living Learning Community.
• Creating Living Learning Communities for the Quad Townhouses.
• Review current Living Learning Community offering.

Student Satisfaction

Objective – Utilize student feedback to improve satisfaction

• Starting Fall 2020, administer satisfaction survey every other academic year.
• Identify and formalize alternate feedback methods.

Objective – Identify paths for students to navigate SHRLs administrative processes

• Benchmark Frequently Asked Questions for website and publications.
• Benchmark institutions Resource Guide.

Student Success

Objective – Student Housing and Residential Life will positively influence GPA, retention, graduation rates, and completed course credit hours of residential students

• FTIC retention will increase annually.
• Support behaviors known to influence student success annually.
• Intervene in behaviors that negatively impact student success annually.

Objective – Develop student learning outcomes for all student positions

• Create Student learning outcomes for Resident Advisors, Desk Assistants, Community Mentors, Resident Hall Association Exec., and National Residence Hall Honorary Exec.
• Create Student learning outcomes for remaining student positions (Graduate Assistants, Senior Desk Assistants, Conference Assistants, Department Student Assistants).

Department Cohesion

Objective – Student Housing and Residential Life will foster greater
connections among department staff

• Addition of a staff connections committee within the departmental committee structure.
• Establish a department tradition.
• Foster partnerships and collaboration among departments and across the division.

Objective – Student Housing and Residential Life will provide opportunities for (Personal/Relational) Professional Development of its staff members

• Every staff member will have an intentional professional development plan.
• The department will provide an environment that will enhance the Diversity training/experience our staff member.

Objective - Utilize technology to enhance staff communications

• Accessible SharePoint utilized by all staff.

Objective - Staff Recruitment, Onboarding, and Training

• All staff trained on technology such as Outlook, SharePoint, Lenel, Mercury, Maxient, etc).
• Comprehensive Onboarding Plan for New Employees.
• Develop comprehensive plan related to the recruitment and selection of professional staff.

• Physical Environments
• Affordability
• Student Satisfaction
• Student Success
• Department Cohesion