Student Government Identified Issues at Retreat

ACADEMICS

  • Educational and professional resources—Advocating/marketing for (Sam Schroeder)
  • Resume workshops
  • Peer editing
  • Teachers’ willingness to meet with students
  • Safe assign
  • Should be additional TAs and SIs for advice for new students
  • Web assign code costs
  • Textbooks cost too much
  • Professors require newest edition, recommend books not used in class
  • Co-op: PlacePro
  • CDC
  • Professors currently have no accountability to their students in terms of the quality of their teaching
  • The current system of feedback/course surveys is ineffective and doesn’t benefit students
  • Academic advisor doesn’t use Starfish, doesn’t answer emails, and doesn’t have office hours posted anywhere
  • Pull up old courses on Blackboard (Tyler Behymer)
  • Implement a “rate my professor” specific to UC (Manoj Ambalavanan)
  • After-hours access to the College of Nursing (Katie Mack)
  • Registering for courses (Jessie Gearhart)

COMMUNITY

  • Cigarette smoking everywhere
  • Lack of organization with finding off-campus housing and sublets
  • Lack of focused freshmen information (Sara Thompson)
  • Pianos on campus
  • Campus improvements and beautification
  • Making downtown/Newport known, accessible, and available to first year students
  • UC and Clifton are somewhat cut off from the rest of Cincinnati
  • Not enough community engagement and involvement (Hannah Randolph)
  • Especially governmental knowledge/engagement in city
  • Getting the off-campus students more engaged and connected with the UC community (Jonathan Avant)
  • Space for commuters to go to during the day (Jessica Wernke)
  • Commuting options
  • Commuter campus engagement from outside a two mile radius (Josh Kellam)
  • Parking meters should take credit cards (Jen Kroell)

COLLABORATION

  • Collaboration between majors (Jaclyn)
  • Lack of communication and collaboration between colleges and other majors
  • Bringing together everyone on campus
  • Athletes with common students
  • International students with domestic students
  • Connecting diverse organizations
  • Way too many committees, websites, and groups that should be working together to solve problems (Andrew Pfriem)
  • We need centralization
  • Bb, OneStop, CampusLINK, email, etc.
  • International students stick together and American students do not usually take initiative (Jamie Schngen)
  • Divided diversitY

EXPERIENCE

  • Easier way to find clubs/organizations
  • Accessibility on campus (Jaclyn)
  • Wheelchair accessibility (Michael Elliot)
  • Renovation of Dabney Hall (Michael Elliot)
  • Installation of Dabney elevator
  • Renovation of bathrooms is needed
  • Renovation of residence halls
  • Lack of attendance at sporting events
  • Lack of bearcat pride
  • Other college spirit wear
  • Early departures from sporting events
  • Black and red Fridays are not strong
  • More variety at CenterCourt
  • Accessibility and inclusiveness (Bryan Scheck)
  • School is dirty (Jessie Gearhart)
  • The smell of Sigma Sigma Commons
  • Buildings need to be cleaned (Gracie Waters)
  • Amount of options for dinner at CenterCourt after traditional hours (8:00PM) (Alex Shelton)
  • Students who are busy lack choices at those hours while paying significant amount of money for meal plans
  • Co-op program lacking (Jaclyn)

SAFETY

  • NightRide wait times; always one hour or more (Aziza Banerjee)
  • NightRide needs another van because the handicap one can only hold 2 people (Hilary Misdom)
  • BTS North Route needs more shuttles (Hilary Misdom)
  • BTS routes need to run later at night
  • Drinking on campus (Rachel Schneir)
  • Safety tips
  • What to be cautious of

SUSTAINABILITY

  • Sustainability (Jaclyn)
  • Paper towels, lights, water fountains, prints
  • Building an edible garden, raising crops, and access to the rural environment (Alex Sartin)
  • Transportation of all kinds is confusing at UC
  • Metro
  • BTS
  • Zipcar
  • Travel policy
  • UC transportation is expensive
  • What is the streetcar?
  • NightRide
  • Lack of information regarding transportation, metro, and BTS for first year students (Alex Shelton)

TRANSPARENCY

  • Create transparency and communication between student initiatives and faculty initiatives
  • Administrative policy changes made by UC should be more transparent to students
  • There is little cohesion or transparency among faculty involved in career services, creating redundancies for students
  • Getting involved in the middle of the year (SG)
  • Speaking position on Senate
  • What is going on in Student Government
  • More visibility of SG outside campaigning (Jen St. John)
  • Events
  • Updates of initiatives
  • Marketing our brand
  • Students unaware of activities going on around campus and how to get involved (Veronica Nunez)