Student Affairs Strategic Plan 17 Objective 4. SUPPORT HUMAN CAPITAL: Our people make the difference. We invest in our personnel as educators and primary service providers to ensure highquality student success programs and operations. Student Affairs team members are creative, flexible, and prepared to respond to student needs in an ever-changing environment. We invest in our people to ensure we are prepared to meet the strategic needs of Northern and our students now and into the future. 48. Institute payroll deductions for the faculty/staff meal plans, similar to the Foundation and United Way. 49. Waive the parking permit fee for new employees in their first semester. 50. Update the position description and classification for the Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities and Title IX Coordinator. 51. Create something like “Fight Song Friday” or “Free Coffee Friday”, where employees and students are encouraged to wear Northern apparel, connect with colleagues/peers, and build community. 52. Work with the Foundation to add a standing member from the Foundation to the Student Affairs Council. 53. Working with Human Resources, develop and offer a program for supervisors to destigmatization discussions with employees about the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). 54. Establish a Student Affairs Professional Development Committee based on the ACPA and NASPA Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Educators and South Dakota Board of Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists. The committee will create and implement a professional development framework that encourages and challenges all team members to be lifelong learners, engage with national and regional professional associations, and utilize institutional opportunities (committee assignments, campus and community projects coordination/supervision) to develop team members. 55. With Human Resources, create a 360-evaluation program for staff and supervisors to increase employee engagement and satisfaction. 56. Implement Individualized Development Plans (IDP) for all benefits-eligible staff to carefully plan and execute opportunities to continue growing in our work, skills, and abilities. 57. Update the Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities title to Assistant Dean of Students to reduce student and faculty confusion and ensure clear continuity of operations in the Dean’s absence. Objective 5. INCREASE CAMPUS BELONGING: “Sense of belonging reflects the extent to which students feel connected, a part of, or stuck to a campus… ”4 58. Create a partnership with the Youth Leadership Forum to build a pipeline to college. 59. Conduct a review of accessible parking on campus and adjust as necessary to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The review will include the specific number of accessible parking spaces based on the total number of spaces in the lot, designated van-accessible spaces, clear and visible signage, and unobstructed access routes nearest to building entrances.5 60. Select a student engagement platform that all of campus will utilize and fully embrace to enhance new student recruitment, current student retention, and advance student persistence to graduation (see the SEM Plan). 61. Partnering with Communications and Marketing, and consistent with the Accessible Icon Project, create an accessibility services logo and marketing program to raise awareness of inclusive services available on campus and how to request services for events. 62. Conduct an accessibility review of the Northern campus and create a plan to address accessibility challenges using external consultants from AHEAD.6 63. Update and publicize a new Student Accessibility Services webpage with direct links to ACCESS Northern, as well as maps of accessible building entrances and bathrooms. 64. Working with Marketing and Communications, Northern and Student Affairs will use image descriptions for all official social media posts. 4Rosenberg & McCullough, 1981, as cited in Strayhorn, 2008, p. 505 5See https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/blog/ada-requirements-for-parking-standards-compliance-and-penalties/ 6See the Association of Higher Education And Disability https://www.ahead.org/home
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