CUNY Master Plan 2012-2016

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THE CUNY MASTER PLAN 2012-2016 Campus Life and Student Engagement As CUNY’s enrollment has grown, one of the most pressing challenges for campuses is to create psychologically intimate and personally meaningful experiences within a large setting. Going forward, CUNY seeks to enhance campus-life experiences for students across its campuses, including but not limited to: • Campus athletics: Developing institutional pride through athletics and related student life programming can enhance a sense of student belonging, connection, and identity, as well as a strong campus community. Creating a healthy spirit of competition with athletes, as well as with student fans, can foster long-term campus allegiance while improving students’ satisfaction with the overall campus-life experience. Every CUNY college provides intercollegiate and intramural athletic opportunities, and the benefits of participation extend well beyond sheer physical fitness in the development of teamwork, leadership, and other skills. The CUNY Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) promotes the highest standards of intercollegiate athletic competition at the Division III level. Participating in an individual or team sport cultivates skills—such as team play and endurance—that carry over into students’ academic lives. By 2016, CUNY will increase the percentage of its students participating in intercollegiate and intramural athletic opportunities by 5 percent and improve the number of student-athletes earning a GPA of 3.5 or above by 10 percent. • Student clubs and organizations: Investing in student academic and honors clubs and organizations, such as CUNY’s very competitive Debate Team, as well as other discipline-specific clubs and organizations, can heighten academic expectations and engage students in academically focused activities. Expanding student organizations for veteran students, international students, and students with disabilities are other examples of potential investments. • Residence life: Over the last several years, new residential living facilities have been built for City College, Queens College, and the Graduate Center, and ground was recently broken for a student housing complex at the College of Staten Island. As CUNY grows its housing and residence life pro- Artist’s Rendering of Student Housing Complex at the College of Staten Island 46
MISSION PART ONE grams, campuses must carefully develop residential programming to ensure an intentional experience that supports academic learning outcomes. To address this need, over the next four years, the University plans to invest in staff training and develop residential policies and programming expectations. • Faculty and peer mentoring: Regular, focused, faculty-student and student-student interactions can enhance the quality of the collegiate experience and encourage academic success. Through meaningful mentoring relationships, students can learn about resources and opportunities while also gaining valuable guidance and insight about college and professional success. In fall 2012, CUNY will launch a pilot peer-mentoring program, funded by the Lumina Foundation and co-sponsored by the Hispanic Federation, to provide transition support for first-year students while leveraging technology to enhance the development of virtual learning communities. • Veteran student services: CUNY is experiencing significant growth in its student veteran population. Since 2008, veteran enrollments have grown 53 percent across the University, including a remarkable 233 percent in the community colleges. This growth is due in part to enhanced GI Bill benefits, New York State Veterans Tuition benefits, and wars concluding abroad. CUNY campuses must have appropriate programmatic infrastructure, policies, and human resources to effectively guide veterans through the completion of their studies. Moreover, support systems must be enhanced to ensure our veterans receive needed leadership opportunities, physical and learning accommodations, and mental health services and support. To that end, Chancellor Goldstein announced the creation of a committee of the Council of Presidents to recommend changes in University policies and procedures in order to better serve CUNY student veterans and to improve their success in their studies and their preparation for the workforce. These new policies and procedures will be put into place by 2016. • Services for students with disabilities: CUNY enrolls more than 8,000 students with disabilities. The University is dedicated to the full and equal participation of these students in all aspects of University life and offers comprehensive support services and a broad range of programs for all students with disabilities. Going forward, the University will: — Provide recommendations about how to best serve the growing population of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and implement the recommendations as appropriate; — Establish a centralized Office of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Services (ODHS), reducing costs and improving service quality. CUNY serves more than 400 deaf and hard-of-hearing students, including over 120 students in need of sign language interpreter services. The cost to provide sign language interpreter services through private agencies is three times higher than it would be through professionals employed by CUNY. — Expand the use of computers with adaptive technologies to meet the instructional needs of students with disabilities inside of and outside of the classroom. International Education CUNY students hail from 210 countries and speak nearly 190 languages. The University’s classrooms reflect the globally oriented workplaces students will inhabit as graduates and offer CUNY students rich 47
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