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Unit: Student Involvement and Leadership Location: Troy Date: April 19, 2006 Division: Division of Student Services Person Completing Report: Barbara Patterson Title: Director, Student Involvement

Mission and Relation to University Mission:

The purpose of the Office of Involvement and Leadership is to promote student organizations as an integral and productive part of Troy University and to enhance the overall experience of the student by participation in organizations. Membership in campus organizations allows the student to pursue academic and individual interests, to contribute to the University and the community, and to develop their leadership and other personal and social skills. The office provides advising, consulting, and programming to the Student Government

Association as well as the social Greek organizations and support services to all other campus organizations. This office also coordinates the activities of the Excellence in Leadership scholarship recipients. We assign their mentors, correspond with them on a regular basis, record their internship hours, and have them attend leadership seminars each semester. During the course of the year over fifty major campus activities are coordinated through our office that serve to educate and/or entertain students.

The line of the university's mission statement that most directly relates to the purpose of our office is "Academic programs are supported by a variety of student services, which promote the welfare of the individual student." We want to help our students to adjust to university life quickly. We encourage new students to find a student organization that matches their values and interests. Students who find a small community through a student organization instantly find a connection to the university. These connections are vital to their physical and mental well being and to university retention. Through their involvement outside of the classroom we also want the student to develop their leadership skills. The development of their leadership skills complement their learning and prepare them for the future.

We also meet many of the goals set by the university. For example, goal one states that we will provide an international scope to university programs and services. We encourage our international students to form their own organizations to meet the needs of their fellow students and encourage them to participate in university life.

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Goal three states that we will maintain a diverse student population. Students will find that there is a wide variety of organizations and activities. Goal six states that we will promote discovery and exploration of knowledge dedicated to life-long learning success. As students try out their leadership skills we see that they are willing to take on larger and more complicated roles. This is a building block for developing community leaders for this state, nation and world.

Achieved: Edit Worklog (1) Expected Outcomes/ Student Learning Outcomes with Assessment Measures (2) Actual Assessment of Expected Outcomes/Student Learning Outcomes with Improvements Noted (3) Outcome Achieved Yes/No

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Objectives (If outcomes were not

met) (5) Projected Cost to Implement PFI Edit Delete History Worklog a. Fifteen percent of the student population will vote in SGA officer elections. a. Student Government Officer Election Report a. At the conclusion of the Student Government Association Officer elections, the number of students running and voting will be recorded and compared to the student population. Six student government elections were held this past year. In three out of the six elections over 15 percent voted in the elections. The senate elections are where we are weak. There were 3 senate elections and 5%,9% and 6% of students voted. In the officer elections 20% of students voted and the two Homecoming elections 16% and 22% voted.

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Edit Delete History Worklog b. The number of students running for student government elections will be twice the number of available positions and we will retain seventy-five percent of the students elected to the senate. b. Student Government Senate Election Report b. At the conclusion of the Student Government Association Senate elections the number of students running will be recorded.

In the 4 elections that had designated positions none of them had double the amount of students running. The SGA is not retaining 75% of the students selected to the SGA senate. Less than 50% of the senate was retained.

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Edit Delete History Worklog c. Twenty percent of the student population will belong to a social Greek organization. c. Greek Report c. At the end of each term the following statistics will be collected concerning Greek organizations. The total membership Currently fifteen percent of the students belong to a Greek organization. We recorded their being 735 Greeks and 4960 undergraduate students.

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of all groups will be recorded and compared to the undergraduate population. Edit Delete History Worklog

d. The GPA of the Greek population will be at or above the GPA average for all

undergraduate students.

d. Greek Report

d. Each term the overall fraternity and sorority grade point average will be compared to the undergraduate populations.

The overall Greek GPA is 2.82 and the overall undergraduate GPA is a 2.66.

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Improvement $0.00 Edit Delete History Worklog e. The Office of Student Involvement and Leadership will receive a seventy percent excellent to good rating in the Compendium of Survey and Test Results published by the OIRPE.

e. Graduating Student Survey and Test Results - OIRPE e. Seniors will In the 2005-2006 Graduating Senior Survey Report 45% said they were

satistied and 26% said they were very

satisfied for a result of 71%. Also in the Survey frequencies of the graduating senior survey report, Q32I,

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answer two questions about their student organization membership on the Graduating Student Survey. Seniors will be evaluating the office on the Graduating Student Survey.

35% of students say they are part of a student organization. Edit Delete History Worklog f. After every major project the office will informally assess students who participated in the event to get their feedbak on what we could have done better.

f. Focus Groups

f. After every major project the office will informally assess students who participated in the event to get their feedback on what we could have done better.

Two give two examples of what we do with focus groups I will use Honors Convocation and Sorority Recruitment. At the end of Honors Convocation we ask each Honor Society advisor for an assessment of the program and asked how we can continue to improve. We take this to the Honors Convocation

committee for them to act on when appropriate. For sorority recruitment we get at least 10 women who participated to evaluate the whole process and take suggestions for improvement. We conduct at least 60 major projects each year and will frequently go back afterwards and make notes and changes immediately for the

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following year. Edit Delete History Worklog g. Eighty percent of the freshmen leadership scholars will return to Troy University for their sophomore year.

g. Excellence in Leadership Scholar Retention Report.

g. Every fall the office will assess what second year leadership scholars returned to school.

The 2005 year started with 162 lead

scholars. Fall 2006 we have 130 of those return to school.

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