ENGAGEMENT: Businesses & services that students need/want


Student Experience Goal 3:

Provide and support businesses & services that students want & need

Participation (publicity, recruitment, diversity) Resources (money, people, sustainability) Collaboration (within AS, outside AS) Accountability (measure and report)

Continue to provide and/or support business and services that fulfill unmet needs of students. Program components include:

  • Evaluate all existing AS businesses and services to ensure they are meeting the needs of students (and are providing quality services, effectively and efficiently).
  • Explore creating new AS businesses such as a 24 hour café (or carts) on campus, using business ventures criteria described in Internal Operations goals
  • Create a business ventures model for to enable AS to support student entrepreneurs (see Internal Operations, below)

3 foci: 1) Improve advertising of avail businesses, services, & events; 2) determine unmet needs/demands; 3) recruit students with ideas
Use
Campus communications
Info for new students
AS Social Media
AS Website(s)
Radio & newspaper
Outreach to applicable academic depts, clubs and associations

Money-
Set-up:
Ongoing:
People-work with AS BCCs and staff to work within existing resources for set up; indiv business plans may req. resources which will be explored in indiv business plans.
Planet-minimal/positive impact few if any print materials


Applicable academic depts.
Applicable clubs and associations

Measure 1:
Cost/benefit of existing AS businesses;
Report: survey comments on each--create plans for improvement;
Measure 2: measure improvements and consistency in outreach, service. Has attendance/use increased?
Assess needs/demands (using existing survey, other tools;
Reporting: to Senate, applicable BCCs, and in Annual Report; student body pre-election if lock-in

See our implementation plan here
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