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In April 2000 the first phase of the Student Life Initiative concluded when the Board of Trustees issued a statement outlining its plan to enhance the social and residential experience of students. The statement contained the following elements:
The Residential System
- Cultivate a stronger sense of belonging and continuity and provide greater opportunity for social interaction among students and between students and faculty
- Group selected residence halls to form clusters or centers with sufficient social space and programming
- Hire additional residential hall staff
- Strengthen the residential governance structures
- Encourage faculty, graduate student and staff involvement in the student residential program
- Initiate planning for the construction of residential facilities to accommodate up to 500 undergraduates over the next five years
- Assess further housing needs and build additional facilities to house up to 600 students over the next decade.
First-Year Housing
Implement first-year housing, including programming aimed specifically at first-year students, as one alternative to be offered to the Class of 2005 and to study and evaluate this option.
Graduate Students
Plan and site residences for approximately 110 graduate students and develop plans for a graduate student center.
Diversity
Work with faculty and students to pursue the development of a world cultures initiative to provide educational and social programming for undergraduates.
Judicial System
Establish a single judicial system embracing all student organizations, a single set of policies and rules regarding the use of alcohol, and a common set of policies and physical standards for all components of the residential system.
Dining and Social Space
Begin planning for new and renovated campus dining, social and recreational spaces, including an expanded student center; a recreational center; a dining facility at the north end of campus; and a flexible flat-floor space that could be used for large events.
CFS System
- Develop new standards of excellence for CFS organizations
- Any organization that chooses to disaffiliate from the College will be immediately de-recognized and will lose the benefits associated with recognition
- Continue the moratorium on the formation of any new residential, selective, single-sex organizations
- Set general physical standards and building code requirements similar to those imposed on all student residences
- Remove tap systems, mass refrigeration units and permanent bars from CFS houses
- Prohibit hazing of new members and any abusive or demeaning initiation rites and develop a hazing policy that is more stringent than current College policy
- Students will first become eligible to rush in the winter term of their sophomore year, beginning in academic year 2001-02
- The administration will provide support services in CFS houses similar to those found in other student residences
- Each house will have an undergraduate advisor in residence.
Alcohol
Develop a new set of policies and rules for the dispensing of alcohol that apply to all residence halls and campus organizations.
The Trustees also called for FURTHER STUDY of senior societies and other non-CFS selective organizations, academic affinity programs, and the D-Plan.
Follow Up
Provide the Board of Trustees with annual reports on the implementation of the full range of programs associated with this initiative so that we can ascertain progress toward our objectives and undertake a more complete assessment of progress toward these goals during the year 2006-07.
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