Student Engagement Retreat Third and Fourth Years January 29, 2014
Jan 10, 2016
Student Engagement Retreat
Third and Fourth YearsJanuary 29, 2014
Retreat Goals
• Review refreshed Student Engagement Model and provide feedback
• Review criteria for Key Points of Engagement (KPE) and provide feedback
• Develop KPEs for third and fourth years
• Create Third and Fourth Year Student Engagement Boards
How we got here• Collected and reviewed all notes from retreat
and sought to use common verbs throughout model.
• Extended outcomes out to third and fourth years and refreshed overall plan to achieve continuity and follow a developmental model.
• Consulted with FY and SY Board Chairs and scheduled meetings with full Boards (SY occurred on 1/24, FY is scheduled for early Feb.) to generate feedback.
Goal 1: Academic Engagement
Objective 1: Students will explore, identify, participate in, and reflect upon opportunities to apply classroom knowledge and skills to real-world settings.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will explore opportunities to apply classroom knowledge and skills to real-world settings.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will identify specific opportunities to apply classroom knowledge and skills to real-world settings.
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will participate in opportunities to apply classroom knowledge and skills to real-world settings.
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will reflect upon opportunities to apply classroom knowledge and skills to real-world settings.
Goal 1: Academic Engagement
Objective 2: Students will explore, identify, participate in, and reflect upon opportunities to interact with other cultures.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will explore opportunities to interact with other cultures.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will identify specific opportunities to interact with other cultures.
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will participate in opportunities to interact with other cultures.
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will reflect upon their interactions with other cultures.
Goal 2: Social Engagement
Objective 1: Students will explore, participate, and engage meaningfully in campus life as well as encourage involvement of others.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will explore opportunities for involvement in campus life.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will participate in campus life.
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will engage meaningfully in campus life.
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will promote the involvement of others in campus life.
Goal 2: Social Engagement
Objective 2: Students will establish and strengthen connections with faculty, staff and/or peer mentors.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will establish connections with their peers, faculty, and/or staff.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will interact meaningfully with faculty, staff, and/or peers.
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will identify at least one mentor.
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will consult with a mentor on post-graduation plans.
Goal 2: Social Engagement
Objective 3: Students will develop a strong connection to the college.
•First-Year outcome: Students will participate in traditions/events that connect them to the college.
•Second-Year outcome: Students will participate in traditions/events that connect them to the college.
•Third-Year outcome: Students will participate in traditions/events that connect them to the college.
•Fourth-Year outcome: Students will participate in traditions/events that connect them to the college.
Goal 3: Personal Engagement
Objective 1: Students will explore and utilize campus resources.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will explore available campus resources.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will utilize appropriate campus resources.
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will utilize appropriate campus resources.
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will utilize appropriate campus resources.
Goal 3: Personal Engagement
Objective 2: Students will explore and select a major as well as engage in relevant experiential activities and connect those activities to their future plans.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will explore Ramapo’s major and minor offerings.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will select a major.
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will engage in experiential activities within their major.
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will connect experiential activities to their post-graduation plans.
Goal 3: Personal Engagement
Objective 3: Students will explore career development resources, create a career plan, engage in experiential activities and connect those activities with their future plans.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will explore career development resources.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will create a career plan.
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will engage in experiential learning activities.
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will connect experiential activities to their post-graduation plans.
Goal 3: Personal Engagement
Objective 4: Students will identify, evaluate, integrate their values system and connect that system with their future plans.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will identify their values.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will evaluate their values in the context of their experience at Ramapo.
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will develop an integrated values system.
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will reflect on how their values system influences their post-graduation plans.
Goal 4:Campus and Civic Engagement
Objective 1: Students will understand, engage in, and promote responsible citizenship in the Ramapo community as well as promote positive change.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will understand their roles, rights and responsibilities as citizens of the Ramapo campus.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will actively engage as responsible citizens of the Ramapo campus.
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will promote active and responsible membership in the Ramapo community by self and others.
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will promote positive change on campus.
Goal 4:Campus and Civic Engagement
Objective 2: Students will understand, engage in, reflect upon, and promote the roles, rights and responsibilities of local, national and global citizens.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will understand their roles, rights and responsibilities as local, national and global citizens.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will actively engage in local, national, and global democratic activities and issues.
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will reflect on the ideals of inclusion, justice and democracy and the individual’s role in promoting these ideals .
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will promote individual roles, rights, and responsibilities as local, national, and global citizens.
Goal 4:Campus and Civic Engagement
Objective 3: Students will understand, engage in, reflect upon, and promote service on the local, national, and global level.
•First-Year Outcome: Students will understand social issues and the role individual service can play in these issues.
•Second-Year Outcome: Students will engage in volunteerism and service learning .
•Third-Year Outcome: Students will reflect on the root causes of social issues and the scope of solutions .
•Fourth-Year Outcome: Students will promote service on the local, national, and global levels.
Criteria for Key Points of Engagement for First Year
Students • A Key Point of Engagement, as defined by the Student
Engagement Steering Committee, is:
• A structured opportunity designed for all first-year students;
• A structured opportunity open to all first-year students; and
• A high-impact activity or an activity leading to a high-impact activity, meaning that it is:
• A substantive interaction, in class and out of class, with peers, faculty, and staff or
• A common experience that deepens understanding of self and others or
• An opportunity to connect in-class and out-of-class learning.
Criteria for Key Points of Engagement for Second Year
Students A high-impact activity or an activity leading to a high-
impact activity, meaning that it is: o A substantive interaction, in class and out of class, with peers,
faculty, and staff or o A common experience that deepens understanding of self and others
or o An opportunity to connect in-class and out-of-class learning.
An opportunity, either designed for or beneficial to sophomore students, that meets their developmental needs.
An opportunity that fosters self-reflection and leads to personal development.
Criteria for Key Points of Engagement for Third and
Fourth Year Students
A high-impact activity or an activity leading to a high-impact activity, meaning that it is: o A substantive interaction, in class and out of class, with peers, faculty,
and staff or o A common experience that deepens understanding of self and others or o An opportunity to connect in-class and out-of-class learning.
An opportunity, either designed for or beneficial to third and fourth year students, that meets their developmental needs.
An opportunity that fosters self-reflection and leads to personal development.
Third-Year and Fourth-Year
KPEs Activity
Student Engagement Boards
•Each year will have a board. Currently, FYE and SYE have boards.
•Boards are responsible for:
• Ensuring alignment between outcomes and KPEs,
• Implementing KPEs,
• Marketing KPEs, and
• Assessing KPEs.
•We are looking for volunteers for junior and senior boards.