24 Student Affairs Strategic Plan 170. Working with Academic Affairs, create a Leadership Minor to support new leadership development across campus. 171. Working with Academic Affairs, create a competition to select the student speaker at spring commencement. 172. With Academic Affairs, create a top undergraduate student award that acknowledges academic excellence, commitment to community, and integrity to be recognized at May Commencement like faculty awards. 173. Create a stipend for the SGA Faculty Advisor. 174. Begin HOWL (Helping Our Wolves Learn) new student orientations after spring graduation. 175. Expand and further develop “Howling for the Holidays” to include a tall, natural, Christmas tree. 176. Working with Technology Services, find and implement a mobile-based events and activities calendar. 177. Develop an accessible directory of student organization contacts to encourage students to connect with student organizations. 178. Working with the Campus Activities Board (CAB) and Dining Services, expand Late Night Breakfast into the spring term. 179. Launch a branded orientation theme or slogan (e.g., “Start Your Pack Story”) and incorporate it across orientation materials (folders, signs, nametags), and marketing materials (social media, emails, mailings). 180. Partnering with Instructional Design, Enrollment Management, and Academic Affairs, institute a virtual HOWL for dual enrolled high school, transfer, international, and post-traditional students to ensure a seamless and high-quality on-boarding experience. Objective 14. INCREASE REVENUE: Everyone at Northern is responsible for knowing our business model and participating in the process of increasing revenue. Managing net revenues ensures the financial viability of Northern and sustains our mission of advancing the student success agenda. 181. Working with Finance and Administration, implement a campus policy codifying the catering and outside food policy. 182. Working with Finance and Administration, utilize the Dining Service’s Innovation Funds to purchase a mobile catering option (similar to a miniature food truck) to support campus events and athletic concessions. 183. Work with Finance and Administration to restore credit card payment options at key residential service sites like the Northern Post Office. 184. With Athletics, institute a monthly employee membership fee for use of the Fitness Center. 185. Publicize two limited time offers (LTOs) from Dining Services per semester to the campus community. 186. Publicize the faculty and staff meal plan to the campus community with professional marketing materials. 187. Add boba drinks and smoothies to the Grid Market in Great Plains East. 188. Offer 24-hour access to freshly baked items to residential students through “Just Baked” vending in the Great Plains East Lobby. 189. Working with Arts and Sciences, install a Starbucks coffee machine in the Harvey S. Jewett Science Center. 190. Sell 40 faculty and staff meal plans over an academic year. 191. Eliminate tuition-funded room waivers. 192. Update our scholarship policies to add an on-campus housing requirement for new degree seeking students who live 30 miles outside of Aberdeen, are within 4 years of their high school graduation, and receive $8,000 or more in total scholarships. 193. Triple the five-year average revenue generated in the Student Center. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln US President
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