Student Access, Well-Being, & Belonging

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Priority: Student Access, Well-Being, & Belonging

Center all students' well-being experiences and create a campus-wide student community through welcoming practices, spaces, and experiences.

 

Objectives and Tactics

(Progress Updates in Red)

A. Provide resources, programs, and events to develop a sense of belonging for undergraduate and graduate students.

  • Enhance engagement opportunities, including events and workshops, for all students to create community.
    • Enhanced engagement opportunities for students to create community during A-Week, Welcome Weeks, National Transfer Student Week, First Generation Week, and more!
  • Review activities, policies, and practices to employ leading equity and inclusion practices.
  • Create or enhance Student Affairs spaces to offer welcoming spaces, available to students.
    • Launched a space study for two locations in the union to evaluate how to maximize space to meet student needs.
  • Consider operating hours, information available, accessibility, and comfort.
  • Create student professional and leadership development opportunities centered on building community, programming, and engagement.
    • Launched Democracy Fellows, a student-led organization that takes the lead on content-neutral civic engagement programming.

 

B. Provide resources, programs, and services that prioritize and help develop and sustain a state of well-being for undergraduate and graduate students.

  • Partner with Academic Affairs to provide training around inclusive practices and innovative programs which can impact student well-being.
  • Share information about resources, activities, and well-being via in-person presentations, digital sources, and print material.
  • Regularly assess essential student needs around food, housing, clothing, and health and adjust provisions, as necessary.
  • Provide counseling and psychological support in varied modes.

 

C. Develop resources that promote a sense of safety for students at all levels.

  • Provide access, 24-hour when appropriate, to emergency health and safety resources.
  • Assess building safety needs, address as needed, and provide training to building staff.
  • Develop/enhance and deliver education around resiliency, risk management, and accountability.
    • Held first annual Razorback Safety Festival, collaborating with 8 campus & 2 community partners.
  • Promote health and safety resources to communities on and off campus.
    • Published monthly preparedness articles to Arkansas News and promoted on social media.

 

D. Reduce barriers to resources and information for undergraduate and graduate students.

  • Review Student Affairs resources to ensure access to students regardless of socioeconomic status.
  • Enhance and encourage information-sharing on campus, in classes, across Arkansas, and with SEC peers.
    • Creating a workshop series for parents, families, and supporters highlighting specific campus resources supporting student success.
  • Assess staffing to ensure appropriate levels and ability to serve multilingual constituents.
    • Assessing existing and developing campus efforts to translate prospective student and family facing content, documents, and resources into Spanish and Marshallese, at minimum.
  • Reduce extent of technological duplication, identify ways to streamline platforms, and maximize utility of technology to increase knowledge of and access to resources.