4: Campus Life
Enrich the Quality of Campus Life Other Information:
Build Our Reputation as a vibrant residential campus with a multicultural community that respects individuality. Become known
as a student-centered university. Expand residential life and co-curricular programs to enhance student learning and engagement
outside the classroom. Intensify our commitment to bringing engaging arts, cultural, and athletic events to the campus and
to the surrounding Hampton Roads communities. Strengthen intra-campus communication systems and attend to the campus community’s
overall welfare. Renew focus on the civility of personal interactions and deliver first-rate service to faculty, staff, students,
and the public. Rationale: ODU’s recent major expansion of student residence facilities on and adjacent to campus brings the
opportunity to change the overall tenor of future campus life in a very positive direction. In addition to enhanced academic
support for students (Goal 1) that must reflect and respond to our diverse student body, and our existing extra-curricular
activities, student-centered programs and services must integrate the curricular with co-curricular activities. Student-faculty
interaction both in and outside of the classroom is critically important in achieving intellectual engagement. Understanding
and respecting differences among individuals is critical to our students’ success in the world after college and is critical
to the success of the University as a whole. Our effectiveness as an organization and our reputation in the communities with
whom we interact depends on the quality of service that we provide to students, parents and relatives, faculty and staff,
administrators, and the public at large. The university suffers when any of those parties feels disregarded. We seek to make
improvements throughout all sectors to ensure the university is recognized as properly responsive to its constituents.
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