Project Liftoff Nova Southeastern University Kenrick F. Roberts Jamie B. Dresher Corrinne M. Lockamy...

Project Liftoff

Nova Southeastern University

Kenrick F. RobertsJamie B. Dresher

Corrinne M. LockamyDominic P. Viola

McApple College“We Have Liftoff!”

Established 2008

McApple College Home of the Astronauts!

As one of Massachusetts leading institutions of higher education, McApple College prides itself for being a pioneer in technological innovation that seeks to cultivate its students through meaningful developmental initiatives both inside and outside of the classroom.

Mission:

Project Lift was a pilot program in the Spring of 2005, where laptop computers were distributed to all students at McApple College. These laptops were a part of a college-wide technology campaign to enhance the level of connection between students, faculty, and staff.

Project Liftoff is an extension of this campaign geared towards addressing student services from an increased technological standpoint.


By implementing the Project Liftoff initiative, the Student Affairs Staff Development Team intends to provide situations and strategies of support to assist our students in developing the strongest sense of self within the greater college community. In this quest we have solicited the support of the following departments:

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Home of the Astronauts!

–Residence Life–Student Activities–Counseling–Student Health

–Orientation–Disability Services–Career Services–Judicial Affairs

Issues to be Addressed:

• Notification Systems: Core-Wireless

• Assessment: Stem2008• Academic Advising: Teacher’s

Apple• Housing: Apple Domain• Student’s Choice: Apple Picking

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Core-Wireless:The Core-Wireless system is a mobile

phone program – similar to a university laptop program – that enables students, faculty and administrators to get a great mobile phone loaded with university-specific applications. McApple College requires all students to have a Core-Wireless phone and includes it in their student fees. Core-Wireless has teamed up with Verizon Wireless to increase service reliability in a way that no other can. Core-Wireless keeps students informed, supported and engaged in and out of the classroom.


Core-Wireless Features:

Core-AlertCore-SupportCore-BuddiesCore-MailCore-BulletinCore-RouteCore-Safety

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Core-Alert:

Administration can instantaneously connect with every member of the McApple community via text messaging, email, RSS, and/or recorded voice messages in a severe alert situation, including campus crisis or severe weather warnings.


Core-Support:

Students can now access their class assignments right on their cell phone! Students and professors can set up discussion boards and post helpful tips and reminders to the entire class or individuals from anywhere they want. With Core-Support students can also upload Core-Flash (flashcards for viewing) and/or Core-Lectures (streaming audio or video files as a study tool).


Core-Buddies:

It’s even easier to get involved with student organizations, study groups or intramural sports with Buddies. Students can send and receive group-specific updates to one another at the touch of a button.


Core-Mail:Access your school email anytime, anywhere!

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Core-Bulletin:

Want to know what’s happening on campus? Events, lectures, athletic games, interest meetings, dining hall hours and more on the homepage of your cell.


Core-Route:

Locate the campus shuttle in real time on your cell phone. No more standing out in the rain or snow with your fingers crossed!


Core-Safety:

This GPS-based application serves as a personal alarm system that students can activate to connect with campus police in a critical situation. Campus police are notified with the student’s personal profile (including any pertinent allergy or medical information), date/time and nearest GPS location when their safety application is activated. Students can also activate Core-Safety when they are in need of emergency medical assistance.


• Improved personal and campus safety.• Greater assistance for special needs individuals with

medical problems or other disabilities.• Provides students with single-click access to campus

police department or emergency services.• Improved communication between university and

students.• Increase of school spirit.• Fosters a greater sense of community.• Parents will love the Core-Safety application because it

sets them at ease knowing their child is protected.


Benefits of Core-Wireless:

Increased numbers of students in Higher Education and the corresponding increase in time spent by staff on assessment has encouraged interest in how technology can assist in this area. Therefore, McApple College seeks to implement Stem2008.

Stem2008:


The data gathered during an effective survey provides a unique opportunity to obtain detailed insight into a program, feeling, idea, and more. Since you can gather large amounts of feedback directly from individuals who are affected, surveys act as the pulse of your project and can measure both its strengths and weaknesses. Stem2008 will be executed by members of the Division of Student Affairs.

Stem2008:


Stem2008 includes a unique powerful designer that enables you to create surveys for the windows mobile platform. Designing a form/survey does not require any programming knowledge and can be performed easily. Choose from various question formats and create rules for questions. Once finished, the survey is saved to the Stem Server and is ready for deployment. Simply assign the survey to as many Stems as needed and you are good to go! The designer can export the results of the survey to Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, or SPSS. This devise will also assist in assuring validity, reliability, and bias reduction.

Stem2008:


Stem2008:


Example output:Q1. How did you first learn about Stem2008?

Answer OptionsTook someone else's surveyBanner AdvertisementSearch EngineReferral/Link from another

siteMagazine/Print

AdvertisementOther (please specify)


Response Percent38.0%4.0%14.0%8.0%5.0%31.0%Answered questionskipped question

Response Count3841485311000

Benefits of the Stem2008 for the surveyor:

• Less time spent collecting, organizing, and correlating your data.

• Gather information anywhere at anytime.• View results in real time with time stamped data.• Supports online/offline working model.• Disaster recovery module.• Deploy to either specific users or groups.• Deploy multiple surveys to single user/group.• Increase participation and completion rates.• Cost effectiveness.• Remove arduous paper-trails of important field data.


• Can support any language the user chooses.

• Can be viewed at different resolutions.• Can be guided by voice or manual

touch.• Able to express views while staying

anonymous.

Benefits of the Stem2008 for the surveyed:


To address the ongoing issue of inadequate Academic Advising, we have worked to create Teacher’s Apple; an around-the-clock advising hotline. Now our students can call in and have any question answered regarding course offerings, program audits, graduation requirements, and much more. Since Academic Advising is not usually a function of our division, we have collaborated with the deans of our academic schools to provide training to our over-the-phone advisors to ensure that the information our students receive is up to date and accurate.


Teacher’s Apple:

• Available 24 hours.• Highly trained

operators.• Toll-Free number.• Weekend availability.• Accessible from

anywhere.


Teacher’s Apple Benefits:

Apple Domain:

“Residence halls have the potential to challenge and educate students as they connect their learning experiences to their living realities” (Schroeder & Mable, 1994, p.1). At McApple College, our residence life staff understands and encourages this level of connection.


State of the art residence halls (located right outside the student center, library, and academic buildings) will feature:– Suite style apartments:

• Biometric fingerprint access.• Four bedrooms per suite.• Personal bathrooms.• Moveable walls to convert living space as

desired.• Full kitchen.

Apple Domain:


Apple Domain:


• These residence halls will also feature:– Smart classrooms on each floor.– Group study rooms on each floor.– Recreation rooms on the ground floor of every hall:

• Big screen televisions.• Comfortable couches.• Arcade games.• Pool tables.• Ping Pong tables.

• Air hockey tables.• Foosball tables.• Virtual reality game rooms (Wii, X-box, and Playstation Systems).

Due to our high residential population, it is very important for us to connect our students to other on-campus resources. The design of our residence halls will attempt to bridge the gap between Academic and Student Affairs by affording our faculty the opportunity to bring educational material into the residence halls. Furthermore, they will foster community through providing shared living and recreational spaces for students to enjoy.

Apple Domain:


• Excellent location.• Opportunities for faculty involvement in

residence halls.• Increased level of safety due to biometric

fingerprinting.• Increased student interaction due to

recreation and study spaces.

Apple Domain Benefits:



Apple Picking:In his article titled How to Meet Millennials’

Expectations, Reynol Junco (2006) asserts that “The expectations of millennials are high; they expect no delays, good customer service, and interactive learning” (p. 1). Shortly thereafter Junco (2006) provides an astounding example of these expectations when he states “In a discussion with student leaders at a large private university in the northeast, the students indicated that their expectation was that student affairs administrators should ‘definitely’ respond to their overnight emails by noon the next day at the very latest” (p. 2)!

Apple Picking:


Undoubtedly, these demands extend to the room selection and room change processes. In order to exceed such extraordinary demands, the Office of Residence Life has implemented the Residential Management System. Amidst its many functions, the Residential Management System allows the student to have instant access to a variety of room, roommate, and meal plan selection functions that are illustrated by the upcoming slides.

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The Residence Life team is committed to augmenting your academic experience by providing a pleasant campus living environment and residence halls equipped with the latest technological advances.

Office of Residence Life is located at:

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Pay Your DepositImmunization FormStudent Health Insurance FormMcApple Residence Life Website

McApple College3625 College AvenueStow, MA 01775

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Community Living

Freshman Living

Please review the undergraduate Residency Requirements

Williams Hall

Lockamy Hall

Dresher Hall

Roberts HallUpperclassman Living

Holliday Hall

DeSantis Hall

Section 1 – Undergraduate Residency Requirement

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ROOM ASSIGNMENT AND ROOMMATE INFORMATION

STUDENT PROFILE

SELF ASSIGNMENT

Steps for General Room Selection:

WELCOME

HALLS

SEARCH

LOCK ROOM

ROOMMATE ACCESS

ARRANGE BEDSPACE

CONFIRM SPACE

RECEIPT

Welcome to General Room Selection Processing:

To book your room online:

1. Search the room you want.

2. Lock the room you want.

3. Select the bed space you want.

4. Select the roommates you want.

5. Arrange bed space for the selected roommates.

6. Confirm your decision.

7. Get receipt.

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Building Description

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Eligibility

Floor Plan

Amenities

Holliday Hall is a brand new state of the art residence hall scheduled to open in August 2008. It is a seven story complex that contains a total of 236 bed spaces, 224 of which are singles. The complex is located ½ mile from McApple’s main campus.


WELCOME

HALLS

SEARCH

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ROOMMATE ACCESS

ARRANGE BEDSPACE

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RECEIPT

HOLLIDAY HALL

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Photos

Eligibility

Floor Plan

Amenities


WELCOME

HALLS

SEARCH

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HOLLIDAY HALL

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Eligibility

Floor Plan

Amenities

Students that are considered upperclassman, who have completed 61-120 credit hours, are eligible to apply for residency in Holliday Hall.


WELCOME

HALLS

SEARCH

LOCK ROOM

ROOMMATE ACCESS

ARRANGE BEDSPACE

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RECEIPT

HOLLIDAY HALL

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Photos

Eligibility

Floor Plan

Amenities


WELCOME

HALLS

SEARCH

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ROOMMATE ACCESS

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HOLLIDAY HALL

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Photos

Eligibility

Floor Plan

Amenities

- Biometric fingerprint access. - Personal bathrooms. - Moveable walls to convert living space. - Full kitchen. - Outdoor pool with waterfall. - Smart classrooms on each floor.- Group study rooms on each floor.- Recreation rooms on the ground floor.

Apple Picking:


In their work titled Serving the Millennial Generation, authors Coomes and DeBard (2004) mention some of the pitfalls of the Millennials proficiency with technology. Referring to technologies such as cell phones and instant messaging, Coomes and DeBard (2004) suggest that “This may prove to be an obstacle to students developing friendships and community at college” (p. 91). Similarly, the lack of development of interpersonal skills as a result of these technologies could help explain a rise in roommate conflicts and resultant room changes.

At McApple College, we firmly believe in the process of conflict mediation to the extent that it is a prerequisite for any student that wishes to request a room change. In order to ease the frustration with the mediation process, we have worked extensively to create an online mediation procedure that still maintains the integrity of the process. The process is illustrated by the following slide.

Apple Picking:



WELCOME

HALLS

SEARCH

LOCK ROOM

ROOMMATE ACCESS

ARRANGE BEDSPACE

CONFIRM SPACE

RECEIPT

Request a Room Change

In order to change your room:

1. Sign up for an available mediation slot.

2. Sign into the online conference room a minimum of 5 minutes before the mediation is scheduled to start.

3. Be prepared to submit your roommate agreement if necessary.

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REQUEST A ROOM CHANGE

4. Electronically sign the resulting mediation agreement.

5. Choose from a list of vacant rooms in your residence hall.

Apple Picking Benefits:


• Instant access to room, roommate, and meal plan functions.• Simplified mediation process.• 24 hour availability of website.

Through implementing Project Liftoff and focusing on the areas of notification systems, assessment, academic advising, housing, and student’s choice, we will dramatically change the way we provide student services here at McApple College. This initiative will set McApple College ahead of the nation in terms of technological advances and innovation. We believe this will foster a higher level of involvement and will encourage our students to become more engaged, leading to increased satisfaction and a stronger campus community.


Final Thoughts:

We Have Liftoff!


References:• Biemiller, L. (2007). The dorm room of the future. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved February 14, 2008, from

http://0-chronicle.com.novacat.nova.edu:80/weekly/v53/i25/25b01201.htm

• Coomes, M. D. & DeBard, R. (2004). Serving the millennial generation. San Francisco:

Jossey-Bass.

• Evans, N., Forney, D. & Guido-DiBrito, F. (1998). Student development in college: Theory , research, and practice. San Francisco: Jossey Bass

• Herrmann, M. & Goral, T. (2007). Educause in the emerald city: Highlights from the floor at educause 2007. Retrieved February 15, 2008 from http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=964&p=1#

• Junco, R. (2006). How to meet millennials’ expectations. Retrieved February 15, 2008, from NASPA’s NetResults database.

• Lim, C. (2007). Warning of danger via text message. Retrieved February 15, 2008, from http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651473_1651472_1651580.00.html

• Nova Southeastern University. (2008). Retrieved February 15, 2008 from http://www.nova.edu/reslife/oncampus/rollinghills.html

• Productive Mobility. Retrieved February 15, 2008 from http://www.dooblo.com/stgi/default.aspx

• Rave Wireless. (2008). Retrieved February 15, 2008, from http://www.ravewireless.com/campus.shtml


References (continued):• Rishi, R. (2007). Always connected, but hard to reach. Educause Quarterly Volume 2. p.7-9

• Residential Management System. (2007). Retrieved February 16, 2008, from http://www.rms-inc.com/

• Schroeder, C. & Mable, P . Et al. (1994). Residence halls and the college experience: Past and present. In realizing the educational potential of residence halls. p. 1-21. San Francisco: Jossey Bass


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