Summary Reports

Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) sponsored a virtual session and an in-person session of Grad Camp held on August 7th (virtual), and August 24th iIn-person). GPSG has worked with Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) since 2009 to assess the experiences of counselors and the campers who attend Grad Camp. The students were sent surveys after attending the camps to obtain feedback about their camp experiences.

Substance Misuse and Violence Prevention (SMVP, formerly Health Promotion) within Student Life offers workshops providing educational support for the STAND Up campaign on the Texas A&M University campus inviting Aggies to Step In and Stand Up against sexual harassment and sexual violence. In 2023-2024, two separate programs were offered: the STAND Up Overview, an hour-long presentation intended to provide general information about the impacts of trauma related to experiencing power-based personal violence, and the STAND Up Workshop, a three-and-one-half hour workshop designed to provide a more thorough understanding of impacts of trauma related to experiencing power-based personal violence. Surveys were distributed at the end of the Overviews and STAND Up Workshops to measure participants’ learning and satisfaction. This is the fifth time Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research worked with Student Life to assess the STAND Up trainings.

Through Student Life within the Division of Student Affairs, Green Dot provides two ways to educate interested people about bystander intervention strategies and violence prevention. Students, faculty, staff, and interested community members can either participate in an overview, an introduction to Green Dot concepts or participate in the more in-depth intervention training. Participants of both groups were given a survey to assess the program and how it affected their understanding of related concepts. This is the eighth year that Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research has worked with Student Life to help them assess the Green Dot programs.

Each summer, the Conference and Guest Services Office (CGSO) with Residence Life hosts numerous camps and conferences in Residence Life facilities. CGSO works with New Student and Family Programs, a unit in Student Life, to host new students and family members who choose to stay on campus during their New Student Conference (NSC). CGSO wanted to get feedback from both students and family members to improve their processes for future NSC guests. This is the second time CGSO worked with Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research on this project.

The Division of Student Affairs offered a week-long professional development opportunity for division staff members who recently moved into a supervisory position or would likely move into a supervisory position soon. The Leadership Academy was held May 13 – 17, 2024. Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research assisted the planners in gathering feedback from the participants at the end of the training to understand their experiences attending the Leadership Academy. The planners wanted to assess the participants several months after the training to understand what aspects of the training had the most long-term impact. This was the first time the Leadership Academy was held and Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) helped with the follow-up assessment.

MSC Programs coordinates the Craig Brown and Sue Smith International Leadership Program in the United Kingdom (Brown-Smith) summer study abroad trip to the United Kingdom for incoming freshmen who qualify as National Merit Scholars. This year, the three-week-long trip was in July 2024. Trip participants were assessed through an electronic survey after returning from the trip at the beginning of their first semester at Texas A&M University in an effort to gauge the overall impact of this experience on these students. This is the first time Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) worked with the MSC to assess the Brown-Smith experience.

Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) and staff from the Department of Student Activities met with student leaders from multiple sponsored and affiliated Texas A&M University student organizations to develop student leader learning outcomes relevant to their organizational leadership experiences. These outcomes are associated with the Texas A&M University (TAMU) undergraduate learning outcomes of life-long learning and working collaboratively,but as they were created in conjunction with student leaders, the outcomes more closely related to their experiences as student leaders within their organizations. This was the third year for this exercise; one of the student learning outcomes (SLO) carried forward from last year (associated with the TAMU undergraduate learning outcome of life-long learning); however, a new SLO was created to associate with the TAMU undergraduate learning outcome of working collaboratively. Student Activities staff and student leaders engaged in intentional activities throughout the academic year which incorporated development opportunities for achieving both learning outcomes. In April, an assessment was created to gain insight from student organization leaders about experiences within their student organizations related to their progress in achieving both learning outcomes during the year. The attached report summarizes the results and provides recommendations based on those results.