We will challenge and empower our students to discover knowledge in a collaborative learning environment that reaches across disciplines and into the broader community, preparing them to lead in an ever more connected world.
Student Success & Transformation
Resources
- Offered a drop-in coping and risk reduction skills clinic four days a week during fall semester to meet the increasing demand on counseling services.
- Provided an average of 300 virtual therapy and psychiatry sessions per week since spring break to past, continued and new patients dealing with mental health challenges in the wake of the pandemic.
- Provided support to 656 active student organizations totaling 17,371 in student membership across all interest areas.
- Organized weekly personal and professional workshops for members of the Greek community. Topics included health, safety, sustainable living, conflict, member apathy, post-college life, and academic success.
- 99% of students who participated in the community standards process reported feeling their rights were upheld in the conduct review process.
- Conducted one-on-one supervisor performance reviews and mentorship discussions with all 120+ conference and event student staff.
Prevention
- Collaborated with the Ross Griffin Memorial Foundation and Active Minds to host, “Send Silence Packing,” a traveling nationwide suicide awareness program. Held on College Green, the installation displayed 1,100 backpacks representing college students that died by suicide.
- Delivered 224 Choices programs led by peer health educators to 2,700 first year students in the Learning Communities. The Choices program examines the intersections of alcohol, sexual assault, consent, and bystander intervention.
- Delivered 94 violence prevention programs to 3,921 individuals in both passive and active programming.
- Collaborated on an arts-based survivor-centered exhibit, Through the Survivor’s Lens, highlighting the diversity of survivors of sexual assault experiences through the art of photography.
Leadership Development
- Implemented the Ohio University Leadership Endorsement certificate program. More than 2,700 students completed the foundation course.
- Engaged 2,624 students holding leadership positions across active student organizations.
- Implemented on-campus hall councils and leadership curriculum for hall council, tRAC, and NRHH executive board members, designed to provide intentional learning opportunities.
- Following the conduct review process, 96% of students reported that they better understand the impact of their behavior on the campus community, 100% were able to identify how to avoid violations of university policy in the future, and 93% reported better understanding expectations for their behavior.