Faculty Organization and Council
Student Life Committee
Members
Randy Brown, Chair (BUS)
Papiya Bhattacharjee (SCI)
Dave Causgrove (BUS)
Rich Englund (ENG)
Dharma Jairam (HSS)
Tony Mastroberardino (SCI)
Miriam McMullen-Pastrick (HSS)
Mike Willis (ENG)
Ken Miller, ex
officio
Jeff Tseng, president of SGA
Purpose
The Student Life Committee reviews and recommends policies, programs, and services which regulate and support student life on campus. The Committee promotes out-of-class programs that pertain to the academic mission of the College.
Charges for Current Year
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Coordination of the Committee’s work with the Office of Student Affairs may improve the work of the Committee. We recommend that the Committee chair and vice chair meet with Ken Miller and other relevant staff to discuss coordination efforts and identify common issues.
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Work on improving student attitudes and increase understanding of how teaching evaluations (SRTE) are used and why they are important.
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Work with Greener Behrend to create a culture where environmental sustainability is valued at Penn State Behrend. Develop recommendations for ways that students, faculty, and administration can be more involved in Behrend’s efforts at sustainability.
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Providing transportation to civic events. Investigate ways for students without cars to be more engaged in civic activities in the community. One particular problem is setting up a system to get students to the polling places to vote.
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Students often come to faculty with problems with housing and/or police and safety that impact on their academic performance. Most faculty members do not understand the process and procedures of housing and food services and police and safety, so when students come to them with problems and ask for help it is difficult to know who to call. The Committee may discuss this issue and decide if a survey to students would be helpful to understanding their issues. If so they may work with Student Affairs and SGA to develop a survey. They may also work on developing an information sheet for faculty on the structure and procedures of food and housing and police and safety.
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Review findings of the Business Development Survey (review findings)
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Analyze student attitudes survey data (consider repeating survey?)
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Recreation space for students on campus is a continuing concern. Based on space utilization studies are there possible alternative recreation spaces that can be identified? (Work with physical plant)
Reports (PDF Format)
Minutes
2011-12