Strategy 6 - Actions

1. Enhance student recruitment, retention, and campus life through new construction and renovation of student facilities.

• Construct Maple Residence Hall and renovate Beta Hall.
• Construct a premier Greek Housing Community.
• Renovate and expand the Student Union
• Renovate and expand Campus Recreation.
• Expand Student Health Service clinics and service areas.

2. Expand services to support increased student retention/graduation with specific interventions targeted to populations found to be at risk of leaving college.

• Implement a comprehensive retention program (see also Strategy 5).
• Initiate Success Seminars for FTICs with academic problems in first semester.
• Implement a peer mentoring program.
• Expand the Counseling Center’s psychological and psychiatric services.
• Develop a model University Health Education program.
• Upgrade and expand the University Experience course.
• Expand person-to-person advising as well as technology-based services.
• Upgrade the SSS and PEP programs to a Freshman Summer Institute.
• Establish a freshman mentoring program involving faculty and staff mentors.
• Strengthen substance abuse awareness and character development programs.

3. Expand career development services for students (see also Strategy 5).

• Utilize career counseling to improve student selection of majors, particularly those who are “undeclared”.
• Increase Co-Op and Internship opportunities.
• Expand learning communities in residence halls for identified student populations.

4. Expand leadership development opportunities for students.

• Strengthen the Leadership Studies program
• Enhance the Legislative Internship program.
• Elevate the Model United Nations program to a Student Activities supported program.
• Develop official co-curricular transcript documentation of leadership involvement.

5. Advance the quality of accommodations for students with disabilities.

• Expand accommodation services for students with disabilities.
• Increase faculty and staff awareness of disability services and accommodations.
• Develop a model program for services to students with learning disabilities.
• Actively engage in transitional services and outreach programs directed towards students with disabilities.
• Provide disability awareness training for faculty and staff.

6. Maintain strong academic performance of student-athletes by providing academic and personal development support services.

• Increase academic services to athletes by expanding academic support staff.
• Establish, maintain, and foster with academic support units including academic advising, counseling center, student judicial services, registrar/admissions offices, orientation, student disability services, evaluation and testing, victims advocacy.
• Establish lecture series for athletes on topics such as drug and alcohol use, career choices, eating disorders, sexual responsibility, motivation and self-esteem, behavior and financial management.
• Continue to promote the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
• Identify transition plan for relocating Academic Enrichment Center following demolition of the Village Complex.

7. Strengthen USF athletic competitiveness in Conference USA.

• Enhance athletic facilities by adding new video walls/score boards, hydrarib baskets and three-sided shot clocks in SunDome, constructing new office/meeting space for Volleyball coaches in Corral, and adding modular space at the varsity tennis courts (short term goals).
• Build new baseball and softball stadiums; light the varsity tennis courts; and renovate the center pavilion of the USF varsity tennis courts (long term goals).
• Construct new Athletic Facility.

8. Maintain USF’s record of NCAA compliance and sportsmanship for USF Athletic Programs.