Student Life Annual Report

The Student Life Annual Report Highlights below are a quick summary of last year’s accomplishments within Student Life.  Student Life encompasses everything from living on campus to sports and student organizations to campus safety.  Click on the buttons below to view specific departmental highlights.

Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention (ASAP) Committee

Highlights

• 97% of incoming first-year students completed and passed the AlcoholEdu online course,
  and 60% completed an additional second part of the course.
• Conducted the first Alcohol Awareness Month at Mines during the month of April with a
  total reach of over 900 students, faculty, staff, and community members.
• New Mines Peer Education Program and hired 19 students for the first cohort starting in
  the fall of 2019.

The Recreational Sports Department continues to strive for “Excellence In Everything” as we find new ways to innovate, improve and accommodate additional events and students. Demand for Recreational Sports facilities and programs continue to grow and are at an all-time high.  Recreational Sports includes the Outdoor Recreation Center, Club Sports and Intramural Sports

Highlights

• ORC Trip and Event totals; 75 trips and events, 166 leaders, 2730 participants and 122 field days.
• Total number of users, over 220,000!
• 13 clubs qualified for their national tournament
• Cycling Club won its 3rd National Championship!
• Intramural and club sports is reaching 11% of the student population on a nightly basis
• We employ approximately 175 students
• 440 teams registered for Intramural events
• First Aid/CPR training included 350 club sport athletes and coaches

Be-Well Committee

Campus Events plans and executes events by turning our guests’ vision into reality. We provide experiences that create meaningful connections to Mines. We coordinate facilities that enhance the guest experience by creating a space for fun and hospitality.

Highlights

• Reorganized the Campus Events department to focus on areas of expertise
• Developed and implemented marketing plan to expand our customer base
• Implemented contract management software for all external rentals and internal MOUs
• Contributed to Green Center building advisory committee and provided a plan to fund Metals Hall renovation

Campus Living and Student Success (CLASS) Leadership

The Career Center had a commendable year with better than average, if not best-recorded, outcomes and efforts despite significant personnel challenges (e.g. vacancies) as well as pioneering efforts (e.g. two-location Career Day). Sustained efforts such as Career Day, on-campus interviews, and Career Advising evidenced impressive numbers with significant upticks across the board. Most commendably, the Center sought new worthwhile opportunities including new industry panels, updated panel design, electronic check-in and tracking of attendees, further collaboration with academic departments, and broader institutional collaboration to betterment of employer portfolio.

Highlights

• Career Center hosted 6 career panels: Consulting; High Tech and Computing; Energy; Aerospace; Alternative Careers; Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
• CSM 250 – Engineering your Career Path – Five sections were offered
• 3165 total Campus Interviews for the year
• Fall Career Day was the largest ever; 3312 students, graduate students and alumni attended

This year marked one of multiple levels of change and growth for the Counseling Center. Major shifts include initial implementation of a Stepped Care service delivery model designed to more effectively manage the increased student demand for counseling services; the addition of case management services to assist and follow-up with students referred for community care; and the transition to part-time clinical staff to increase diversity in the office and provide more levels of coverage. Other highlights involve increased workshop and group offerings, along with increased absorption and decreased wait-times for initial student appointments. Such improvements were made alongside the heightened focus on mental health and suicide prevention as a campus-wide priority to increase resiliency and resource options for the entire Mines community.

Highlights

• Total number of students seen: 923

• Total number of students who attended skills-based groups/workshops: 112

• New Case Management services were utilized by 261 students

• Mindful Monday meditation sessions served a total of 534 participants over 27 sessions

• Implementation of the Stepped Care service model to provide a range of services based on diversity of need

• Delivered 28 unique workshop topics

• Most students seen within 1 to 3 days of request

• The Center’s Emotional Wellbeing/Counseling Workshop series received the “Outstanding Program Award”

The mission of the Health Center is to assist students in achieving their educational goals by addressing their healthcare needs while at Mines. Academic success is strongly linked to a student’s health. The Health Center in partnership with its campus partners encourage and support a healthy lifestyle for all students and serve as a wellness resource for the campus community.

Highlights

• 7790 Health Center encounters

• 1009 Dental clinic visits (6% increase in utilization)

• 1659 SHIP Fall enrollment

• 1542 SHIP Spring enrollment

• Students in non-crisis mode seen within 24-48 hours of seeking appointment, students in crisis seen immediately.

• Provided depression screening for most students

• Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner: 492 number of encounters/visits; 37% increase from previous year

• Implemented a new model of self-referral to support students in obtaining STI testing without barriers

• 1100 flu shots administered – 67 positive flu cases

New Student & Transition Services orients and onboards all new undergraduate students to the Mines
culture, services, and structure while providing holistic support throughout their transition. This office
provides newly accepted students and parents with orientation sessions in the spring and summer, a camp
experience in the summer and a Kick Off weekend as students arrive on campus in the fall. It oversees
the First Year success seminar and manages all the staff and curriculum for that program.

Highlights

•  Took full ownership of Oredigger Camp and M-Climb management, this had been shared with Student Activities, Involvement & Leadership (SAIL) office in the past.

• Ran 3 sessions of Oredigger camp at a new location, YMCA of the Rockies.

• Ran 11 Launch orientation sessions from May – July, serving 726 new students and their families. Video recordings were made available to those unable to attend.

• Hired and trained 68 camp counselors, 100 peer mentors and 47 staff/faculty CSM101 mentors.

• Established the first Common Read program with “The Other Wes Moore “ as inaugural book selection.

• Hired and trained 2 graduate assistant interns.

• Hired and onboarded a new Assistant Director of Nest who started in June 2019.

On-Boarding Committee

Professional Development Committee

The focus of the committee is to offer professional development opportunities to Student Life and Student Life partners to create better and more impactful professionals. Through this programming and developing the skill set of our employees, the programming is creating stronger employees, advisors, and supervisors for our students and staff. The programming has aided in developing an affinity towards Mines. Even though programming is geared towards Mines professionals, this education, preparation, and investment in employees helps staff to feel valued by the institution, which then trickles down to the work they do with students.

Highlights

• The Professional Development attendance increased from about 45 to 65 attendees in a year.

• Hosted a professional development event every month of the academic year.

We believe that living on campus fosters student learning, development and personal growth. We show dedication to our students by creating experiences and physical spaces that recognize the unique challenges and opportunities of being an Oredigger at the Colorado School of Mines. We are committed to providing intentional learning by facilitating safe, inclusive and academically focused environment. We challenge and encourage students to be critical thinkers and civically engaged leaders in a diverse global community.

Highlights

• Held over 450 programs, and executed over 190 hours of RA training, and handled over 230 conduct or student of concern cases this year

• 96% of residents surveyed feel the student staff created safe, inclusive, and welcoming environments

• Continued work with admissions and campus systems to make applications equitable and thoughtful of non-binary or trans students

• The TLC program: 98% of our TLC residents would recommend the experience, including the orientation experience to incoming first year students

Student Life Business Administration consists of dining services, bookstore management, campus one card program, trademark administration, construction coordination and budget and fiscal management. Our mission is to provide excellent services, which ensure Mines students and staff are well prepared for learning and development leading to success inside and outside of the classroom. SLBA’s motto is Supporting Success.

Highlights

• Offered FOODA at The Periodic Table once a week during the spring semester – 1,139 transactions

• Submitted for a grant to Help Fight Hunger – awarded $1,000 for Blaster’s Basket

• Increased USED textbook rentals by 48% over last year

• BlasterCard Photo Submission Program to include government issued ID