Disability Services Departmental Goals and Objectives 

Goal I:      Enhance the student learning experience.

• Objective 1: Provide programs, services and activities that increase students’ capacities for becoming informed reasoners.
• Objective 2: Provide programs, services and activities that increase students’ capacities for taking responsibility for their own well-being.

Goal II:     Recruit, retain and develop quality staff.

• Objective 1: Strive for fair and competitive salary and benefits.
• Objective 2: Encourage and support engagement with the greater student affairs profession and individual areas of expertise, including research, presentations and training.

Goal III:      Strengthen the division’s regional engagement and outreach activities.

• Objective 1: Provide service to and collaborate with our P-16 educational partners in public schools, community colleges and other universities.

Goal IV:      Utilize and incorporate emerging technologies in order to provide quality programs and services.

• Objective 1: Expand partnerships in the utilization of technology and in providing student services, programming and continuous assessment.
• Objective 2: Ensure that technology is accessible and conducive to student learning.

Goal V:     Provide safe, accessible, adaptable, well-maintained, well-equipped healthy and sufficient facilities intentionally designed to be inviting, to encourage interaction, and to reflect the values of the university.

• Objective 1: Monitor construction process in order to maintain accessibility and continuity of all programs and services.

Disability Services Departmental Learning Outcomes

These learning outcomes are stressed for students with disabilities who are registered with Disability Services. 

Informed Reasoning

• To analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information in order to make decisions and solve problems.

Effective Communication

• To develop the capacity to articulate needs, identify and evaluate campus resources available to help meet those needs.
• To exhibit the ability to speak confidently, and competently express thought and information in multiple settings with a range of audiences.
• To utilize technology as an efficient and effective form of communication.

Personal Responsibility

• To formulate an appropriate life strategy based on an integrated understanding of self and environment.
• To develop the ability to identify, evaluate, and assume responsibility for one’s strengths and weaknesses.
• To act responsibly, in accordance with one’s articulated set of values.

Well Being

• To recognize the importance of and develop the capacity to monitor and exercise control over one’s emotional, psychological, spiritual, and physical well-being.
• To develop the capacity to negotiate life-related issues within a given context or system.