Director: Barbara Awad, ()

Student Affairs Committee

Director: Barbara Awad, ()

Associate Directors: Adele Smith ()

John Saad ()

Minute Taker: Nicole Nygard

Meeting Location:HUB 322

1. Barry Bram
2. Student Engagement University Wide Initiative
3. Service Learning and student engagement task force
4. 19 members
5. Student success is related to study abroad, freshman seminars, etc
6. Goal is to have every student participate in at least one engaged scholarship program (internships, study abroad, etc)
7. Engaged scholarship imitative
8. President Barron
9. Identified 6 imperatives: one being student engagement
10. He has given us money to do this
11. Student Engagement Network
12. Administrative structure
13. Early and Often
14. The earlier you start to engage the better grades you will get and the more marketable you will be for a job or graduate school
15. Core Competencies
16. Civic responsibility
17. Ethical reasoning
18. Multicultural awareness
19. Systems thinking
20. Understanding how all the parts contribute
21. Professional skill development
22. Anyone can be trained for day to day tasks, but learning to work with people is needed to be successful
23. Learning outcomes
24. Intellectual development
25. Personal development
26. Stronger sense of self esteem
27. Strengths and weaknesses
28. Change of Campus Students
29. Adjustment challenges
30. In a new environment and that can be intimidating
31. Academic Challenges
32. When people come to UP, GPAs tend to go down because they are not used to the higher-level courses and they are dealing with the adjustment
33. Engagement Challenges
34. Hard to stay involved or start getting involved because it is all new
35. Ten Student Engagement Types (Some of these can overlap, so do not get caught up on definitions of each type)
36. Undergraduate Research
37. Get connected with faculty and engage in this
38. Professional Experience
39. Going to conferences, presenting at exhibition
40. Travel-related Experience
41. Study Abroad, Study Away programs (domestic travel)
42. Community-based Learning
43. Creative Accomplishments
44. Cocurricular achievements
45. Studying and coming up with your own ideas and then getting feedback on those ideas
46. Course with out of class component
47. Take classes during spring and then during spring break they go abroad and then continue class upon return
48. Organizational experience
49. CCSG, SGA, BOT member, other org involvement
50. Realize that org involvement is just as important as our learning experience
51. Peer mentoring
52. Self-directed student engagement
53. E.g. Accounting major, did not get an internship, but developed a new business model for his parent’s local business over the summer
54. He had the opportunity to write a paper and get it published
55. Volunteer
56. Programs
57. Student Engagement Grants
58. Sites.psu.edu/engagepsu/students
59. If you have an internship in NY, and want help funding that, we can do that through these grants
60. Average grant was $2800 last year
61. Moustafa (Behrend): You can be a first year student and still apply for this?
62. Yes, any year student can apply
63. Student Engagement Interns
64. Sites.psu.edu/engagepsu/students
65. If you are changing campus, we would welcome an opportunity to have you on board
66. If we hire you on a campus, we will be wanting you to work to engage students on your campus
67. Faculty Academy
68. Training faculty and staff on how to take advantage of these opportunites
69. Get students more involved in the work they are doing
70. Fayette: If we wanted to bring travel-related experience to our campus, would faculty go through that website to do so?
71. They could go through the student activities office at UP
72. If it is for a course, they can use that link
73. Moutstafa (Behrend): Innovation commons (Launch Box) fall under that grant?
74. Yes, giving student seed funding for entrepreneurship experience
75. Student Engagement Portal
76. Engagement opportunities will all be in this portal that all Penn State students will have access to
77. Will be asking companies, such as IBM or Google, to develop this portal for us
78. No other University is doing this right now
79. Not a lot of universities have as many engagement opportunities as us
80. Harrisburg: Will clubs be able to have access?
81. Build an API (probably Google) that will be able to link to any other database you have for your clubs

• What my job is at UP
• Every undergraduate student should have a meaningful arts experience (playing an instrument, going to a museum, going to concerts, etc)
• Performing Arts Council- umbrella org for over 70 other orgs of the arts
• Stand for State (supervisor for this org)
• Always looking for people to lead our student engagement team
• Oversee student activities office
• Coordinate break trips
• Weekend leadership emerging experiences
• Campus programing
• Student programming association
• Homecoming
• THON
• Center for Arts and Crafts
• Non-credit bearing courses
• Sculpting, belly-dancing, etc
• Oversee student engagement network
• University Park Opportunities
• Academic Opportunities
• You can continue things easily
• Work with a faculty member and ask them if they know anyone you can talk to
• Affiliate organizations
• UP allocation committee, Lion Scotts, etc
• We manage them
• Fraternities and Sororities
• Enhanced eligibility requirements
• You cannot go through recruitment unless you have 14 credit hours at UP
• Multicultural and Orgs
• Almost all of campuses have diversity related orgs
• Contact Info:
• 814 863 0638
• Questions:
• Altoona: How do we compare to other universities with undergraduate research?
• Kind of lower, came to the game a little later than other schools
• Altoona: How does UP compare to the rest of the commonwealth?
• Naturally, we probably have more students engaged up here
• More facilities up here for research and more grants given
• Beaver: What do you think is the biggest impact and has studen
• 95% of students were engaged, we found in a UP survey
• More students have been able to talk fondly about student engagement
• Behrend: Has it ever been in consideration, student mentors that have been in the same position that would help with transition students?
• Someone is responsible for Change of Campus students (creating a council)
• Schulykill: What would you suggest for students that change campus to another commonwealth campus?
• Align what you have done or what you are interested in
• There are a lot of opportunities at commonwealth campuses
• How can that campus get you to where you want to be?
• New Ken: Regarding multicultural student engagement, when there is a need for it but there isn’t very much representation, what do you do?
• If the raw numbers are so small, maybe have an umbrella org for multicultural orgs
• Response: We do have that right now and Student leaders want to participate but they are too involved
• Consider partnering with other campuses
• Fayette: Let everyone who is not a minority know that they can join too
• Debellis: If you are creating a diversity umbrella, remember to include disabilities, and other not commonly talked about diversity categories
• Fostering dialogue between people that have different experiences is very important
• Fayette: Can you talk more about the portal?
• Going to be an app, consider it one large database
• We will have profile info about you: your name, what you are studying, org involvement
• Will have some options such as: study abroad, student org, or theme-based
• You will be able to see which things students
• Kiersten, Fayette: Transferred to Fayette and was not able to finish research, she was turned down, are professors able to turn students down?
• They have the power to turn students down
• There are no specific requirements
• Moustafa (Behrend): Would it be possible to have alternative spring break that is connected with multiple campuses?
• Yes, we are trying to get something together for hurricane relief with a couple of campuses