Division of Student Life

Introduction
During the 2007-2008 academic year, the work in the Division of Student Life was driven primarily by our new five-year Strategic Plan, accompanied by a Communications and Marketing Plan. The Strategic Plan has three over-arching goals, which are simply: 1) excellence in community-building, 2) excellence in student engagement, and 3) excellence in professional practice.

Best Practices
Campus Center

Campus & Community Life (CCL)

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)

  • Approximately 98 percent of clients completing the CAPS satisfaction survey were satisfied with the services received.
  • About 87 percent of clients completing the CAPS satisfaction survey reported improvement in the concerns that brought them in for services.
  • Contributed to a campus-wide evaluation of IUPUI’s readiness for dealing with a traumatic event.

Housing and Residence Life

  • Campus housing was filled to capacity at the opening of the Fall 2007 semester with approximately 1,100 students. Housing remained at a record-high 97 percent capacity for the remainder of the year.
  • The development of Campus Housing Phase II, which calls for building 2,000 more beds in campus housing, began this year.

Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct (SRRC)

  • The SRRC Office adjudicated 69 disciplinary cases pursuant to the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct.
  • SRRC coordinated several division departments and other campus partners as they developed a Behavioral Consultation Team to assist in responding to behaviors of concern on campus.

Teaching and Learning
Adaptive Educational Services

CCL

  • Approximately 1,584 individuals participated in the 16 different IUPUI Goes to Town Events, including sporting events, Broadway shows, and museum visits.
  • WOW (Weeks of Welcome) 2007 spanned three weeks with 18 on-campus and community-related events.  Over 7,000 students participated in these events either in leadership roles or as participants.
  • Campus & Community Life introduced over 4,000 students to campus involvement through summer new student orientation presentations.
  • In the fall of 2007, CCL hosted 88 student organizations and 38 non-profit agencies with over 1,500 in attendance at the Fall Involvement Expo. A Spring Involvement Expo included 30 participating student organizations, 19 non-profits, and over 200 participants.

CAPS

  • More than 730 students were seen at CAPS for more than 3,700 counseling or assessment sessions.
  • More than 55 percent of students taking CAPS’ satisfaction survey reported that receiving CAPS services helped them to remain at the University.
  • Approximately 90 students were seen for crisis services due to an immediate need.
  • 56 students were screened for depression or anxiety, and 35 were recommended to seek additional evaluation or treatment.

Campus Center

  • Between January 7 and June 30, 2008, the Campus Center hosted 2,635 events. Approximately 45 percent of the events were sponsored by student organizations, and 55 percent were sponsored by campus departments and offices.
  • The Campus Center employs approximately 50 students. Thirty of these positions were new for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Housing and Residence Life

  • During the Spring 2008 semester, 36 social and educational programs were hosted, serving a total of 1,547 residents.
  • During the Fall 2007 semester, 34 social and educational programs were hosted, serving a total of 1,355 residents.

SRRC

  • A one-page flyer entitled “Know the Code” was developed and distributed to students on campus.  The flyer describes the behavior expected of all IUPUI students. 

Civic Engagement
CAPS

CCL

  • Over 1,230 volunteers took part in 15 different service/civic engagement activities for a total of 10,048 service hours in the community.
  • During the 2007-2008 year, the Office of Community Service coordinated over 78 volunteers on five Alternative Spring Break trips. Volunteers traveled to Frederick, MD, Maryville, TN, Waveland, MS, and Mammoth Cave, KY.
  • Service and the City took 61 students on a tour of Indianapolis and then to serve at local non-profit agencies.
  • CCL coordinated programming for the Collegiate Readership Program, including a visit from Marcus Mabry, a New York Times editor.  Approximately 1,000 newspapers were distributed daily across campus during the academic year.

Housing and Residence Life

  • The Mary Cable Social Justice Center was established in the fall of 2007. It provides students living in campus housing with resources and programs to expand their understanding of diversity issues.  The Center helps students broaden their awareness and understanding of social justice issues, especially as they pertain to cultural, racial and ethnic diversity, locally and globally.

 

Diversity
CAPS

  • Twenty-five percent of students seeking CAPS’ services identified themselves as students of color.

CCL

  • Campus & Community Life sponsored over 90 cultural enrichment programs during the academic year, reaching 4,000 IUPUI students, faculty and staff.           
  • The “To Mexico with Love” program had a total of 45 students, faculty and staff, plus a nurse from Community North hospital.  The group worked with a women’s service agency, a school and a hospital, providing 960 person-hours of service in Mexico, and served 110 children and dozens of patients at Henri Dunant Hospital and its sister Red Cross emergency service location. 

Campus and Community Programs

  • January 2008, the Black Student Union hosted the 39th Annual Martin Luther King Dinner, where there was a sold-out crowd of close to 850 students, faculty, staff, and community guests who heard world- renowned poet and author, Nikki Giovanni.

External Awards and Appointments
Personnel

Programmatic

IUPUI Democracy Plaza was the 2008 Gold Award Winner of the NASPA Excellence Award, category of “Careers, Academic Support, Service Learning, Community Service and related.”