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Since the February 1999 announcement of the Student Life Initiative substantial changes have occurred on the campus that have influenced the daily lives of students.
Student Programming
- Expanded hours in Collis (begun in the fall of 1998)
- Establishment of the Big Green Bean Café and Midnite Express food stand (fall 1998)
- Bigger, Better, and Later Programs (coordinated by a full-time director with access to additional programming funds)
- Outdoor basketball courts
- Subsidized athletic and Hopkins Center tickets
- Additional Undergraduate Finance Committee funds
- The Kraft Shack
- Poison Ivy dance club
- The Campus Community Hour (a weekly opportunity for the campus to gather for a variety of formal and informal programs.)
Student Life
- Improved orientation program for new students
- Increase from half- to full-time positions for advisors to Latino/Latina, Asian and Asian-American, African-American, and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender students.
Residential Life
- Addition of four Community Directors (full-time, live-in professionals) within the residential system
- Increased UGA compensation
- Opening of McCulloch Hall, a residential facility with room for 80 additional students.
The Dartmouth Plan
While the D-Plan provides both faculty and students with a great deal of flexibility and allows for year-round operation, it nonetheless creates some discontinuity as students and faculty come and go from the campus.
Following the Trustee meeting in April 2000 President Wright appointed a committee to look into the feasibility of abandoning the required summer term and leaving the Dartmouth Plan. That committee reported back to the Trustees in August 2000, and the President and Trustees concluded that it was premature to consider eliminating the D-plan, at this point, because doing so would require an immediate expansion of undergraduate housing.
The administration will work to strengthen the summer term and to reduce the discontinuity caused by the current system. The Board is willing to revisit the question of the D-plan at a later date.
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