Student Stakeholder Session
Here is the summary of the discussion held by Wayne State undergraduate students who examined two of the five strategic directions contained in the current plan. Students focused on the learning experience and the quality of campus life.
1. Learning Experience: Establish and sustain a superlative learning experience that builds upon the unique values and attributes of WSU.
- Encourage greater faculty use of the Web-based Blackboard system.
- Evaluate class prerequisites to determine if they are necessary.
- Change the admissions process so that select programs such as nursing and occupational therapy admit students more than once a year.
- Provide more hands-on-learning opportunities and up-to-date equipment for instruction.
- Offer more honors courses across a wide spectrum of disciplines.
3. Quality of Campus Life: Enhance the quality of life on campus by nurturing a culture of success and excellence.
- Provide 24-hour food outlets, study areas and parking.
- Enable more communication between medical school and pre-medical students, and law and pre-law students.
- Allow gas stations and other retail outlets to accept OneCard for payment.
- Improve athletic facilities.
- Use job fairs to make students aware of employment opportunities and expand the fair concept to make students aware of select student services such as study abroad programs.
- Expand hours of the campus shuttle and provide more information on its schedule.
- Increase housing options for graduate students.
- Do a better job maintaining the bathrooms in State and Manoogian halls.
- Clean computer keyboards in the Undergraduate Library, reduce noise and enforce rules in quiet areas and ensure that group meeting rooms are not used for individual study.
- Provide more OneCard machines across campus.
- Work to increase morale and school spirit.
- Increase the quantity and quality of advertisements of campus events and activities.
- Make course scheduling more flexible and offer additional foreign language classes.
- Offer specialized programs and activities where diverse groups and individuals will interact.
- Provide supervision of student groups and require advisors and additional accountability.