Student Services 1st Annual Town Hall
WELCOME
Tim Rahilly, March 27, 2012
Overview
My Agenda:
Agenda
•Recognition of Major Accomplishments
•AVPS-Goals
My Requests of You:
You
•Feedback and Discussion
Recognition & Celebration
• Thelma Finlayson Award:
Gail Hirsch – FA
• Shelley Howieson
NAIA Women’s Soccer Hall of
Fame
• Mike Jones
BC Sports Hall of Fame
• Liesl Jurock
SFU’s Artistic Award
Recognition & Celebration
• Alan Koch
GNAC Coach of the Year Award
• Bruce Langford
Basketball BC Hall of Fame
• Brit Townsend
SFU Athletics Hall of Fame
• Kate Ross
SFU Leadership Award
• Candy Ho (& John Grant)
SFU Humanitarian Award
Recognition & Celebration
• Rummana Khan,
Donna Dove,
Paul Godman,
Byron Henry,
Janis Rutherford
Council for Advancement and
Support of Education, District VIII
Grand Gold Video & Multimedia
& Grand Gold for Visual Design
Recognition & Celebration
• Brian Fox
Anisha Arora,
Jessica Wong,
Shaunessy Mangani
Andrew Armour
Alvin To
Al Wiseman
Pat Lougheed
Kate Ross
UPass implementation Team
Town Hall: Challenges
1. Recruiting & retaining the “right
students”
2. Meeting students needs based on
their individual & group identities
3. Strategically & innovative
budgeting
Swimming upstream
4. Providing programs & services
within our multi-campus model
5. Privatization of Residences
Town Hall: Opportunities
1. Envision
2. Leading community initatives
3. Enhancing our planning
4. Focusing on relationships
5. Having/keeping the right people
Leading the “school”
6. Telling our story
7. Celebrate success
Goal of the Goals
• Meant to provide
overarching goals not
replace unit goals
• Not meant to capture the
work of every unit and
every function
Goals
1. Support the VPA’s Strategic Plan
• Strategic Enrolment Management
• Increase the number and diversity of experiential
offerings (academic & co-curricular)
• Improve access & support for under-represented
communities
• Contribute to goal of full institutional accreditation with
NWCCU
Goals
2. Continue to partner with academic units & Student Societies to
coordinate, strengthen, and (where possible) grow programs
and initiatives in support of:
• Student engagement
• Student success
• Indigenous
• International
• Students with disabilities
• Mentally healthy communities
• Learning & student gathering spaces
Goals
3. Be responsive to assessment information:
• Improve our capacity to assess our programs
and services
• Take action to address issues of student
satisfaction identified by NSSE, CUSC, ISB
Goals
4. Achieve full member
status with the NCAA
Goals
5. Continue to leverage technology to improve
programs and services
Goals
6. Refresh our policy framework and processes related to:
• Academic integrity and good student conduct (S10.01)
• Response to threat and violence (GP 25)
• New policy creation (e.g., involuntary withdrawal)
Additional Discussion