Department Goals
- Educate and develop leaders by engaging students in conversations of personal, group, and community values.
- Create transformative educational experiences where students and communities thrive.
- Support equity, inclusion, and a campus culture driven by student well-being.
- Provide students with opportunities to learn life skills.
Division Strategic Plan Alignment
Student Life established the following four Strategic Goals to guide its work:
- Enhance the culture of equity and inclusion. (G1)
- Cultivate a culture where individuals and communities thrive. (G2)
- Disrupt the culture of at-risk substance use. (G3)
- Foster a culture of consent and healthy relationships. (G4)
Late Night ‘SC
Objective
Support a culture of non-substance use. (G3)
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Integrate healthy physical, mental, and emotional practices into students’ everyday lifestyles by using the information and techniques provided through the Late Night ‘SC programs.
2. Participate in activities that do not promote substance use due to the diverse range of programs that are offered to students.
3. Attend Late Night ‘SC events as an alternative to attending social activities where substance use may be prevalent.
Objective
1. Enhance the personal wellbeing of students by providing them with opportunities to practice self-care and self-expression through alternative activities during the weekend prime social hours. (G2)
2. Form and cultivate healthy social relationships. (G2)
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Integrate healthy physical, mental, and emotional practices into students’ everyday lifestyles by using the information and techniques provided through the Late Night ‘SC programs.
2. Participate in activities that do not promote substance use due to the diverse range of programs that are offered to students.
3. Attend Late Night ‘SC events as an alternative to attending social activities where substance use may be prevalent.
Hazing Prevention
Objective
Increase student knowledge and awareness of hazing prevention strategies. (G2, G3, G4)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Define University policy and California State law on hazing.
- Recognize and identify a wide variety of hazing activities and warning signs.
- Identify three key components of hazing.
- Identify university and community hazing education resources.
- Apply skills to safely and confidently intervene in hazing or potentially violent situations.
Objective
Enhance student and staff knowledge of bystander intervention. (G2, G4)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify hazing activity and behaviors as they occur.
- Interpret violent behavior as problematic.
- Recognize responsibility to take action.
- Acquire four skills to respond appropriately to hazing activity.
- Take action (direct, distract, delegate, discuss).
Objective
Disrupt normalized hazing culture on campus. (G2, G4)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify at least three alternative group cohesion and team building activities.
- Develop understanding of the consequences of hazing activity on the individual and organization.
- Develop and build student organizations that foster a sense of belonging.
- Recognize how hazing falls within a spectrum of interpersonal violence.
Objective
Increase students’ likelihood to report hazing incidents. (G2)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge of reporting options for suspected hazing incidents.
- Identify campus and community resources to support victims of hazing.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to effectively report hazing activity.
Recognized Student Organizations (RSO)
Objective
Form groups that allow students to develop personal and professional relationships, learn leadership and organizational skills, and serve the community. (G1, G2, G3, G4)
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate understanding of skills necessary to manage groups, including university policies, risk management, member recruitment, and retention.
2. Display reasoned, flexible and a collaborative approach to leadership.
3. Understand and practice steps of effective event planning, scheduling, logistics, implementation, promotion, execution and evaluation.
4. Demonstrate personal characteristics that positively affect the workplace and organization.
Student Government
Objective
Translate the skills acquired through student involvement to students’ career & personal growth. (G1, G2)
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify three leadership strengths.
2. Navigate conflict resolution and develop mediation skills.
3. Enhance their communication skills when interacting with students from different backgrounds.
4. Understand and follow governing documents, university, state, and national policies.
5. Develop collaborative skills by engaging with peers, advisors, students and campus partners.
Objective
Educate, entertain, and advocate for the student body to create a positive student experience. (G1, G2, G3, G4)
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Develop an understanding of personal identity, power, privilege and oppression by participating in ongoing cultural competency trainings.
2. Participate in activities that encourage diversity of thought and experience and promote an inclusive environment.
Objective
Feel a sense of belonging to USC by participating in USG/GSG. (G2)
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Formulate the student’s own concept of thriving.
2. Identify two strategies for a healthy lifestyle.
Objective
Develop programs and initiatives for USC students. (G1, G2)
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Assess and respond to advocacy and programmatic interests of the student body.
2. Identify all aspects of planning and executing an event or initiative, and complete all relevant tasks in a timely manner.
3. Develop, implement, monitor, and make adjustments to budgets based on allocated funding.
Student Employment
Objective
Develop life skills and leadership experience to help develop the students’ professional experiences. (G2)
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Understand a strong work ethic, and being an active member of a team striving for a common goal.
2. Actively seek various resources to complete a task, and providing excellent customer service.
3. Articulate team goals and expectations to team members, and motivating them to achieve their best.
4. Identify and adapting behaviors based on understood information and experiences to various situations or settings.
Objective
Align graduate student employees with NASPA/ACPA competencies. (G2)
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Identify one’s own informal theories of student development (“theories in use”) and how they can be informed by formal theories to enhance work with students.
2. Construct learning outcomes for both daily practice as well as teaching and training activities.
3. Facilitate problem-solving, individual decision-making and goal-setting.
4. Challenge and support students and colleagues. 5. Encourage reflection to make meaning from experiences with students, groups, colleagues, and others.