Our Mission

Our mission is to support the vision of the students. As an Executive team, we promise to listen to the concerns of the student body and bring those issues to the administration in order to find tangible solutions to the everyday concerns of students. Through our love for the university and our dedication to the students, we will bring the following ideas to life for the Xavier community. Common Concerns
- Improve Hoff dining experience by working with campus dining to allow subtitles on the Hoff televisions, working to incorporate music into a section of the Hoff, and creating a regular area with chips for their meal in a place other than just the sandwich line. - Improve Campus Apartment Living: Working with Residence Life to offer toilet paper and other basic living necessities for apartment residents. - Add water bottle filling stations to all water fountains on campus. - Cover bicycle racks by moving some of the current ones underneath buildings and also pursue stand-alone covered bicycle racks for areas that cannot be covered by a building. - Work to make printing on campus possible for all types of personal devices (i.e. iPads, iPhones, Androids, etc.) - Add OrgSync tab to the portal so students can access their OrgSync account easily just as they access Blackboard and Outlook and allow for student organizations to access their budget and sign waivers on OrgSync.

More Transportation Options to the City

- Many students choose Xavier for the proximity to the city, however when they come to Xavier it is difficult to get downtown without a car. o Work with Metro to have discounts for Xavier students. Make it easier for students to understand how the Metro works if they have never ridden a city bus. Work with the city to incorporate the Bike Share program downtown with the Xavier campus.

Xavier Weekly
- Create a Xavier Weekly newsletter that will be emailed out to students and faculty/staff that will consolidate university information and increase communication between students and administration as well as students and faculty/staff. o Currently, there is no one system to communicate information to students and this inhibits the ability to spread information that is both relevant and important for all students. This will create a uniform system that all students will know to look to in order to be most up to date with what is going on at Xavier. Faculty and staff receive a Xavier Today that could be used as a prototype for this program. Ideally, they could become customizable and integrated together so students, faculty and staff could opt into different information (i.e. theater updates, club sports updates, administration updates, etc).

AllCard Improvements
- Visiting Hours o All Xavier students should have access to the residential buildings during designated visiting hours. We will work to give all students with AllCards the ability to enter residence halls during visiting hours. o Visiting hours are the designated time for students to hang out together and are the time for students to have access to the Residence Halls in which they do not live. o Giving all students with an AllCard access to the Residence Halls will increase the security within the Residence Halls. - Rentals o Supply students with chargers for a variety of electronics that they can check out from Gallagher or Conaton Learning Commons (including but not limited to: cell phone chargers, Macbook chargers, Windows PC chargers, Rented Laptop chargers). o Have a stock of umbrellas that students can check out from Gallagher Student Center or Conaton Learning Commons. - Replacements o Work with Auxiliary Services to make the AllCard replacement process and requirements more clear. Also, lessen the restrictions to receive free replacement AllCards. This project specifically addresses the problems of those students, faculty members, and staff whose AllCards get worn down more quickly due to frequency of use in their day-to-day.

Study Abroad Programs

- We want to work with the Center for International Education to consolidate all of the Study Abroad information. o This will be accomplished by creating a brochure listing all of the Study Abroad options with their cost, requirements, and any logistics a student needs to know when considering studying abroad. This information can be provided to all advisors so they can refer the students who are interested in studying abroad. By improving academic advising we will also be able to better distribute this information to all advisers.

Standardize Academic Advising

- Create more uniform requirements that combine the best of advising from across the university. Currently, the standards are so varied across the university that students dont depend on their advisor to assist them. We will work with each college and the office of the Provost in order to optimize the advising experience to better suit all students. o This process will include making sure that advisers are paired with students in a process that takes into account majors and career goals of students. This process will also increase individualized advising services to freshman.

Free Transcripts
- Allow students to have access to their official transcripts for free, decreasing the cost from the current five-dollar rate, especially transcripts that are required for academic reasons.

Maintain Small Class Size

- Work with Faculty and Administration to ensure that class sizes stay small enough to maintain personal interaction between student and professor. As one of the main attractions for students to come to Xavier and as something Xavier prides itself on, we want to ensure that students are guaranteed small class sizes even as the university grows and develops.

Increase Safety for Students on and around Campus

- Create an X-Path which would highlight the safest path through campus. This would incorporate the areas which are the best lit, most seen by security cameras, and easiest access for police, among other factors. We will make that path evident to students through signage either along the side of the path or painted on the ground. This gives students a clear, well-identified route to walk through campus. - Ensure students feel safe walking across campus and to their homes off-campus by adding the Guardian program. This program allows students to communicate via their phone where they are headed and when they expect to be at that location. By indicating this on their phone, this information is provided to the police. When they arrive at their designated location, they then indicate it on their phone. If they dont inform the police they have arrived in the designated time they receive a phone call from the police and if they dont answer the police can respond immediately. - Optimize XU Police nightly patrols to cover the areas students feel least protected around campus.

Xavier and the Surrounding Community

- As a Jesuit institution we are called to serve the community, especially the community that surrounds campus. In order to encourage Xavier to play a bigger and better role in the neighborhoods around campus, we will work with various departments on campus (for example, the Center for Faith and Justice) to begin service initiatives and cooperation with the community to ensure more positive interaction between the Norwood, Evanston, and Avondale communities and Xavier.

Pricing for Credit Hours

- Decrease the restrictions on charging students who want to take over 18 credit hours for all majors by investigating the reasons that certain majors (i.e. PPP and Music) are allowed to take more than 18 credit hours without charge.

Create a Funding Board

- In absence of the Co-Curricular Funding Board in the next University Budget we will create a funding board that consists of students, faculty and staff that will be responsible for allocating money to student organizations, departments and other groups on campus seeking funding for unexpected costs.

Technology in Classrooms
- Work with Faculty to incorporate technology use in the classroom for academics. This could also involve instructing faculty on all possible technology available in each classroom. Examples of this include: digital textbooks, classroom Facebook groups, digital note cards, laptops, etc.

Increase Acknowledgment for the Arts

- Work to have the Arts included as a part of the Xavier homepage. o Currently the website includes Academics, Athletics, and Campus Life but does not mention the Arts, yet a great population of Xavier students are actively involved in the Arts. An Arts section will show support from Xavier University as well as market the Arts program to the public and better represent the Arts and the students involved in the various related programs at Xavier University.

Individualize Meal Plan Options

- Expand the hours at the X-Spot for meal swipes. - Currently there is a large gap between the 14 Meals Plan and the 80 Block Plan both in cost and in number of meals. We will work with Auxiliary Services to close that gap and to create meal plans that are more flexible and can fit more students needs.

Ensure a Diversity Week on Xaviers Campus

- By promoting collaboration among all clubs and students at Xavier there will be an annual week dedicated to recognizing and celebrating diversity among all students.

Improve Housing Selection

- Work with Residence Life to clarify the process of housing selection so that students can be better equipped for the housing selection and have clear knowledge of which groups receive priority housing for which residences.

LGBT Friendly Housing

- To ensure a comfortable residential situation for all students we will create a system for students who want to live on campus to optionally denote if they are LGBT friendly and take that information into consideration when placing students in the random-roommate process.

Xavier-Approved Businesses
- Create a list of Xavier-Approved businesses to supply students with a list of useful businesses that are reputable, dependable and trustworthy. o This could be used especially for students from outside the Cincinnati area looking for important things such as doctors, dentists, hair stylists, etc.

Campus Accessibility
- Make the campus more accessible for people with disabilities. We will work with the administration to evaluate how effective Xaviers campus is for a student with a disability to get around and come up with feasible solutions as how to make Xavier better suited for students with disabilities. o This helps to make Xavier a more inclusive university and allows for a better educational experience for all students.

Extend Campus Building Hours

- Work with the university to explore the idea of extending the hours of buildings utilized by students, especially Smith. This will provide more space for students to study, more space for students to collaborate on projects, and more available options for club/group meetings.

Student Conduct Liaison

- Continue the Student Conduct Liaison position to provide students a service alternative to documentation. o Last year, Matt Morefield worked to create the SCL position in order to provide students the option of doing service instead of requiring payment for their first offense violations to the code of conduct. We will continue the SCL position by working with the current SCL, Pat Schlembach and the Director of Student Integrity, Jean Griffin, to ensure the position continues and grows as the needs of students change.

Pets in the Village

- Working with Residence Life to see if a portion of the Village apartments that have direct access to the outside could become pet-friendly and allow students to have a pet on campus. There would be a pet fee as well as restrictions on the types and number of pets.

Increase Faculty and Student Research Opportunities

- In order to increase the number of students working with faculty on research in their field we will incentivize faculty research opportunities. o Incentives could take place in the form of credit opportunities for students, grants for projects, more resource allocation, etc.

Address the Space Concern

- After the discontinued use of Alter Hall and the increased restrictions on Kennedy Auditorium and the Gallagher Theater we will communicate the student concern of space to the administration and work to seek new solutions.

Orientation for First Year Students

- Work with the Office of Student Involvement and the Office of Multicultural Affairs to make both Manresa and Smooth Transitions more beneficial for first year students. o We will work with OSI and OMA to optimize the scheduling of Smooth Transitions and Manresa so that first year students, who are registered for both, will want to attend all of the events for both programs. This will help improve the attendance of both Smooth Transitions and Manresa programs and will encourage more first year students to meet more of their classmates.

Increase Student Input in the Faculty Hiring Process

- Work with departments to include student input in the interviewing process for candidates for new professor positions.