Goals & Objectives
Mission
Student Affairs supports Longwood's mission to prepare citizen leaders by providing educational and co-curricular opportunities designed to challenge and support students as they learn and develop. Through intentional collaboration with campus partners, we create an engaging, diverse and inclusive community that positively influences student well-being, learning, development, and success. (6/21/2018; reviewed 08/2020; 07/2021; 01/2022)
Vision Statement
Student Affairs is committed to providing transformative student learning experiences that equip students as citizen leaders capable of achieving personal excellence within an ever-changing and increasingly diverse global society. At Longwood, every student matters and by addressing the holistic needs of each, we aim to optimize individual potential, well-being, a passion for learning and serving, and a respect for differences. (6/21/2018; reviewed 01/10/2020; 07/2021; 01/2022)
Organizational Structure
Longwood's mission to prepare citizen leaders for the common good guides Student Affairs' commitment to the development of the whole student. Through intentional learning opportunities - teaching, mentoring, activities, service, counseling, and advising - our team of professionals is dedicated to challenging and supporting students through multiple forms of reflective and integrated learning while promoting community, pluralism, civility, honor, and integrity.
Student Affairs Org Chart (pdf)
Student Affairs 2020-22 Strategic Goals:
- Focus on holistic, high-impact, student and learning-centered programs that foster a culture of well-being
- Model and promote personal responsibility, intercultural competencies, socially just practices, and global awareness
- Collaborate with partners to foster integrated and reflective learning, purposeful student engagement, and academic success
- Strengthen a culture of continuous improvement committed to excellence
Student Affairs 2020-22 Strategic Goals with Objectives:
1. Focus on holistic, high-impact, student and learning-centered programs and practices
1.1 Identify the unique needs, abilities, and interests of emerging and existing student populations and develop strategies and recommendations for programs and policies to ensure public health and student success.
1.2 Ensure accessibility of services and programs by adopting non-traditional working hours and universal access practices, when appropriate.
1.3 Provide an integrated approach to health and wellness that highlights the connection between individual well-being and student success.
1.4 Assist campus constituents in discerning the difference between students in distress and students in crisis, and provide appropriate referral and resources information.
1.5 Work with institutional and survey data to discover and address factors that influence student success and retention.
1.6 Serve as coaches, supervisors, mentors, providers, educators, and advisors to help students make meaning of their college experiences increasing the chances of a successful transition to and from college.
1.7 Develop policies, procedures, programs, and opportunities for all students that will foster self-efficacy and emotional resiliency.
2. Model and promote personal and social responsibility, intercultural competencies, and global awareness
2.1 Encourage, seek, and provide opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to engage with and contribute to their local communities.
2.2 Develop methods to inform students of their rights, responsibilities, expectations for conduct, and provide multiple opportunities/resources for education and assistance.
2.3 Facilitate training and instruction related to risk management, ethical decision-making, bystander intervention, well-being, and healthy choices.
2.4 Develop programs and practices to increase awareness and appreciation of students’ varying identities.
2.5 Continue to support student participation in experiential and transformative learning opportunities to increase community and global awareness, consciousness, and engagement.
2.6 Sponsor trainings and programs to increase empathy and cultural awareness and competencies.
2.7 Provide sexual assault and misconduct prevention, education, and remediation that is current with federal and state legislation.
3. Collaborate with partners to foster integrated and reflective learning, purposeful engagement, and academic success
3.1 Designate resources and establish campus-wide working groups to foster, encourage, and incentivize collaborative partnering across key strategic issues.
3.2 Increase the capacity for aligning out-of-class experiences with Civitae Core learning outcomes and Citizen Leadership Development model advancing opportunities for more formalized integrated and reflective learning.
3.3 Collaborate with partners to support an early alert program and appropriate interventions for at-risk students.
3.4 Explore possibilities for high-impact practices that will enhance academic and personal success and provide increased opportunities for meaningful interactions across various communities.
3.5 Students will explore purposefully, develop transferrable skills, and learn-by-doing by engaging in experiences outside the classroom including research, service learning, community, and civic engagement, internships, alternative break options, Brock experiences, and/or study abroad.
3.6 Develop creative strategies for using spaces in ways that will encourage student assimilation and affinity with each other, the University, and the local community.
4. Strengthen a culture of continuous improvement committed to excellence
4.1 To increase financial bandwidth, generate alternative sources of revenue by pursuing grant opportunities and designating signature projects that would attract giving and philanthropy; explore ways to share and minimize expenses.
4.2 Provide incentives for staff who provide written evidence of continuous improvement and excellence by using assessment data to inform change.
4.3 Explore alternative and proactive means of recruiting, hiring, and retaining a more diverse staff.
4.4 Promote and support more holistic choices for students and staff by adopting creative, non-traditional staffing and operational structures and expectations.
4.5 Create expectations and provide incentives for solution-oriented, data-driven decisions.
4.6 Employ externally-defined professional standards to systematically evaluate all programs and services as a means of improving student learning and institutional effectiveness.
4.7 Develop area-wide assessment and reporting expectations that are aligned with Longwood’s institutional mission and accreditation expectations and employ varied assessment measures, performance indicators, and benchmarking.
4.8 Adjust program expectations based on shifting student demographics and emerging populations; utilize new technology and other delivery modes without losing personal connection with students.