1. Co-Curricular Assessment Plan STUDENT AFFAIRS - LEADERSHIP CENTER

2. What claims does your program make for its students? Leadership Center Values The Leadership Center offers programs and services that foster leadership development through community service, encouraging the creation of lasting connections, and the recognition of accomplishments. The Leadership Center offers a variety of programs to enhance your leadership skills while at Arkansas State University. The various programs focus on enriching your ability to successfully demonstrate leadership skills and provide an opportunity to expand your global awareness. http://www.astate.edu/a/leadership-center/

3. Student participates will expand in the following areas: Decision Making Teamwork Communication Diversity Awareness Problem Solving Relationship Development Goal Setting Philosophies of Leadership and Development http://www.astate.edu/a/leadership-center/ How does your program contribute to the educational environment outside of the classroom?

4. Leadership Center Tenets  Facilitate learning outside of the classroom.  Demonstrate positive leadership.  Promote an atmosphere of diversity.  Provide opportunities for practice based learning.  Develop individual skill sets for lifelong success.  Support and encourage academic endeavors.  Exhibit best practices for student development through a commitment to developing the whole student.  Foster the creation of community through service, encouraging connections with faculty, staff and students, and recognition of accomplishments. Adopted, May 2009 Received from Martha Spack, Director of Leadership Center 06/19/15

5. Your college experience will be one of the most inspiring, engaging and rewarding times of your life. The Leadership Center facilitates a wide array of campus involvement opportunities such as Student Government Association, Student Activities Board, Volunteer A-State, Greek Life and various Student Organizations. Each week, a diverse range of exciting events are held for the campus community and we encourage you to GET INVOLVED at A-State. http://www.astate.edu/a/leadership-center/ Leadership Center GET INVOLVED AT ARKANSAS STATE

6. Strategic Plan Action Steps  Create an electronic Leadership Portfolio/Leadership Transcript for students to document academic/extracurricular information and upload into applications  Create a communication/marketing unit within the office to support graphic design, social media, web, photography bank and other marketing concepts  Program assessments for Leadership Center, Student Union and Red WOLF Center  Migrate to digital yearbook or seek alternative options for yearbook  Migrate to a calendar app in connection to iPad initiative  Create a Leadership Preview Day for high school students highlighting opportunities for campus involvement  Create a Welcome Week model for freshman orientation  Construct Sorority Housing complex  Develop Greek Residential Facilities Operation Manual  Greek chapter expansion - PanHellenic and Inter-fraternity Council  Establish a Bike Share Program for students  Create a ropes course leadership training apparatus  Establish an Emerging Leaders Program  Create Multicultural Center programming that targets needs of campus community  Create Multicultural faculty/staff and student programming committees http://www.astate.edu/a/strategic-planning/action-steps/index.dot#sa

7. Document Alignment Departmental Level  Development of the Whole Student  Create a Leadership Preview Day for high school students highlighting opportunities for campus involvement  Enhancing and Enriching Leadership Skills  Establish an Emerging Leaders Program  Diversity Awareness  Create Multicultural Center programming that targets needs of campus community  Learning Outside of the Classroom  Create a ropes course leadership training apparatus  Building a Sense of Community  Create a Welcome Week model for freshman orientation

8. How do the documents align with the broader unit’s goals? (Student Affairs/University)  Mission and Goals  The Leadership Center offers a variety of programs to enhance your leadership skills while at Arkansas State University. The various programs focus on enriching your ability to successfully demonstrate leadership skills and provide an opportunity to expand your global awareness.  Student Affairs Mission – To provide services and co-curricular experiences to enhance students’ learning and development to enrich their lives.  University Mission - Arkansas State University educates leaders, enhances intellectual growth, and enriches lives.

9. University Strategic Plan  Priority 1: Refine ASU’s mission and identity as an emerging global research institution.  Goal 1A. Pursue Appropriate Carnegie Classification Based on Role and Scope Goal 1B. Continue to Promote Teaching and Learning Endeavors That Are Integral to a Global Research Institution Goal 1C. Continue to Promote the Transformation of ASU Into a Research ‐ Intensive Institution Goal 1D. Promote Outcome ‐ Based Decision Making Goal 1E. Increase Undergraduate and Graduate Enrollment of Well ‐ Qualified Students  Priority 2: Create a service and support culture that is focused on student learning, retention, and academic success.  Goal 2A. Support Student Learning as the First Priority to Establish Arkansas State University as a Premier Learning ‐ Centered University Goal 2B. Review Relevancy of General Education Program Goal 2C. Continue to Develop a Culture of Assessment to Enhance Learning Outcomes Goal 2D. Enhance Student Persistence and Academic Success Goal 2E. Manage the Use of Financial Aid to Help Attract and Retain students Goal 2F. Provide Opportunities to Better Understand Student Needs  Priority 3: Create learning experiences through student engagement, service to our region, and partnerships with our community.  Goal 3A. Increase Service ‐ Learning and Community Engagement Opportunities Goal 3B. Enhance Community Outreach Goal 3C. Promote Safety, Environmental Responsibility and Stewardship  Priority 4: Create a collaborative decision ‐ making environment that is based on effective shared governance, open communication, and mutual respect of all members of our teaching and learning community.  Goal 4A. Develop a Sense of Campus Community Goal 4B. Create Transparency in Planning and Decision Making  Priority 5: Adopt policies and models that continuously promote, grow and reward all modes of effective teaching and learning experiences.  Goal 5A. Support and Reward Multiple Modalities of Teaching and Learning Goal 5B. Refocus on Excellence in Teaching and Learning  Priority 6: Increase our diversity and expand our globalization.  Goal 6A. Prepare Students for Global Citizenship Goal 6B. Develop a Service Environment that Supports the Needs of a Diverse ASU Community Goal 6C. Attract, Employ, Retain, and Advance Greater Numbers of University Faculty and Staff from Underrepresented Groups  Priority 7: Continually improve our institutional efficacy and alignment of resources with our priorities.  Goal 7A. Enhance Recruitment and Retention Initiatives of Faculty and Staff Goal 7B. Maintain Current and Strategically Plan for Future Infrastructure Needs Goal 7C. Expand Resources and Refine Budget Procedures  Revised 8-17-11 http://www.astate.edu/a/strategic-planning/

10. Institutional and Departmental Strategic Plan Alignment

12. STUDENT AFFAIRS ANNUAL REPORT 2013 YEAR IN REVIEW

13. Review and Evaluation of Metrics  Metrics used include:  Surveys  Attendance at Events and Programs  Student Leader Feedback at the Completion of a Program or Event  Social Media Hits and Feedback  Strategic Plan More geared towards Program Effectiveness in terms of task completion over the Assessment of Student Learning  No Published Metrics Supporting Program Effectiveness

14. Conclusions  Through the variety of programs, activities, services, and opportunities offered to students through the Leadership Center the impact of student learning and development of the whole student outside the classroom appears to be significant. The volume of and diversity of departmental activities and services would certainly reach some students as well as the campus community as a whole.  However, without having access to real data that supports operational effectiveness or student learning it is difficult to see the complete picture of departmental successes.

15. Alignment of Leadership Center Action Steps to Institutional Priorities Institutional Priorities Priority 1Priority 2Priority 3Priority 4Priority 5Priority 6Priority 7 Institutional Goals ABCDEABCDEFA B CA B A B C Leadership Center Action Steps x x x xxxxxxxxxxxx * Table demonstrates where Leadership Center Action Steps (GOALS) line up to support the Institutional Goals and Priorities

16. Priority 4. Create a collaborative decision-making environment that is based on effective shared governance, open communication, and mutual respect of all members of our teaching and learning community. Goal 4A. Develop a Sense of Campus Community  4ACreate a Leadership Preview Day for high school students highlighting opportunities for campus involvement  Learning Outcome to be Measured: The Student will be able to identify and distinguish among campus curricular and co-curricular structures and opportunities. Assessment Process: High School Leadership Preview Day serves as a means of attracting prospective students not only to the university, but also to introduce these prospective students to the many opportunities available to them on the curricular and co-curricular level. Simple surveys have been traditionally used to evaluate the program effectiveness. However, no information is has been collected which demonstrates if students who participate in High School Leadership Day are any more successful as students than students who do not participate in the program. During the 2014 – 2015 academic year Leadership Center Staff will begin to track the student involvement and student success rates of High School Leadership Preview Day students through graduation. Staff will meet with participants on an annual basis to collect information in regard to time spent involved in co-curricular activities, overall campus knowledge, study habits, as well as employment status. Information collected will be compared to a control group and the universities overall graduation rates as a means of determining if students who participate in High School leadership Preview Day are more knowledgeable about the campus community, more involved with co-curricular opportunities, and if these students are more academically successful. Timeline: Five Years Year One: Initiate study and begin data collection. Year two - four: Continue data collection on participants and control group. Year Five – Collect and compare data from participants and control group to determine academic success rates, overall campus knowledge, and levels of campus involvement.

17. Priority 6. Increase our diversity and expand our globalization. Goal 6A. Prepare Students for Global Citizenship  6A.Create Multicultural Center programming that targets needs of campus community.  Learning Outcome to be Measured: The Leadership Center will be able to offer a variety of Multicultural programs which will represent the needs of the campus community. Assessment Process: The Leadership Center will utilize social media as a means to collect data through simple surveys and feedback from across the campus community as to what types of Multicultural programs are desired. Timeline: One year Year One: Distribute surveys through various forms of social media and collect data. Analyze survey findings and plan for the following academic year of Multicultural Programming.

18. Priority 4. Create a collaborative decision-making environment that is based on effective shared governance, open communication, and mutual respect of all members of our teaching and learning community. Goal 4A. Develop a Sense of Campus Community  4A.Greek chapter expansion - PanHellenic and Inter-fraternity Council.  Learning Outcome to be Measured: The Leadership Center will work with Greek Organizations in order to increase overall Greek membership across campus. Assessment Process: The Leadership Center will work with Greek Organizations in order to educate organizations on university policies so as to retain members in good standings with the university, methods on how to recruit potential members, and in philosophies of leadership and development in order to increase memberships. Metrix to be used will be a simple headcount. Timeline: Two Years Year One and Two: Provide training and development opportunities to organizations on university policies and standards, leadership, retention, and recruitment.