3.
Collaboratively impact learning through integrated, developmentally
appropriate educational experiences.
• Implement and promote an integrated wellness model in conjunction with the
Student Recreation Center, Counseling Services, Student Health Services, and other
related offices to empower students to maintain a balanced lifestyle and to create
a healthy and safe campus for all members of the ODU community.
• Promote educationally-purposeful opportunities that encourage ODU students to
develop and enhance critical-thinking abilities.
• Engage students in programs and opportunities that foster intercultural learning
and increase awareness of global cultures, issues, and events.
• Provide leadership education and civic engagement opportunities for students.
• Establish a comprehensive career counseling model to maximize career outcomes
for degree completers and prepare students for careers in the modern, global
society through major and career exploration, professional development, and
hands-on experiences.
• Support Academic Affairs in the expansion and programming of Living-Learning
Communities by 30% and develop more meaningful relationships with the academic
curriculum.
• Develop and implement a focused program model for decreasing high-risk
behaviors and incidents, and educating faculty, staff and students to meet the
requirements of state and federal statutes, including the Violence Against Women
Act (VAWA).
• Expand student service-learning in the community through a variety of local,
regional, national and international service-learning opportunities, focusing on
community-based research as a source of knowledge production.
• Enhance the entrepreneurial co-curriculum for students through the development
of entrepreneurial co-curricular activities and support for student-led organizations
such as Enactus and the Student Entrepreneurship Club.