About the Student Experience Master Plan

UMass Amherst is in the midst of its Student Experience Master Plan with Cannon Design / Brailsford and Dunlavey. The plan will create a vision to comprehensively improve the quality of life for all our students.

When students seek assistance with learning, leadership or life skills they deserve a sempcomprehensive response and support from campus staff that spans organizational boundaries and maximizes available assets – including support programs and physical space – in a manner that reinforces our commitment to them and their long-term success on campus and in life. The Student Experience Master Plan vision and planning process aims to support academic and student life strategic planning that maps a strategy for how this can happen on our campus.

The project was initiated by the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life and will be guided by a Steering Committee that is comprised of students, staff and faculty. This committee met on November 18, 2014 to start the project and review the proposed process and timelines, and to discuss how best to engage the campus in strategic planning for the future of the student experience on campus. Members of the campus community can view the presentation on Google Drive: http://ow.ly/EGiLZ (please make sure that you are not logged in with a personal Google account before you click on the link – the link requires that you login to your @umass.edu Google Apps account; and note that the presentation is rather large, so please select Download to save the file on your device).

Through out the year the consultants will be on campus collecting feedback from students, faculty and staff. Please come back to this blog periodically to check in on our progress – we will be posting updates regularly!

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