| Develop a comprehensive website that provides a lengthy guide for college students
who are parents of dependent children and create a campus parent-ally network |
Larissa Mercado-Lopez |
Forward to department for further review |
| Establish a grading system that allows professors to assign + and - to all letter
grades. |
Zoulikha Mouffak |
Not Feasible |
| Streamline travel process, specifically for Club Sports teams (e.g., eliminate multiple
signatures needed, allow students to hand write IRA Travel, make an exception for
the Rodeo teams). Also – stagger lunches so all offices remain open all day. |
Jared Hines |
Forward to department for further review |
| Improve the advising process by including pictures of the students in their My Fresno
State portal and make all advising memos digital so multiple advisors can know what
information students have already received. |
Justine McAlpine |
Forward to department for further review |
| Provide free, online tutoring to students in area schools, allowing current graduate
students who are practicing teachers to contribute lesson plans and get practice and
investing in future students. |
Jyothi Bathina |
Forward to department for further review |
| Students, faculty, and community members could donate new or gently used clothing
to be distributed to our students through the Fresno State Student Closet |
Susan Schlievert |
Already happening |
| Re-design and improve the Learning Center; invest in enough tablets for check-out
for every tutor to use with students; include better access to power; consider finding
additional permanent pverflow space for tutoring and SI |
William Hardaway |
Forward to department for further review |
| Place all aspects of Teacher Credentialing in KSOEHD (including all placements for
student teachers) |
Deborah Rogers |
Forward to department for further review |
| Revise grading system from the traditional letter grade to the same 0 to 4.0 grading
system reported by the registrar on a student's transcript |
James Henson |
Forward to department for further review |
| Develop an app to inform students a location for leftover food at events and give
them 10 minutes before catering picks it up. |
Sharon Ramirez |
Already happening |
| Re-establish the University Lecture Series in its original format (featuring nationally
name-recognized speakers) |
Ronald Avedisian |
Already happening |
| Organize events on campus to get students, faculty and staff involved with the University
and campus life. Examples include farmer's markets |
Huy Vo |
Forward to department for further review |
| Connect faculty and student course work with projects happening around campus to offer
high impact learning opportunities to students and gain fresh and innovative ideas
to improve Fresno State. |
Katie Williamson |
Forward to department for further review |
| Hire a WAC/WID (Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines) coordinator
to support the development of writing courses and the teaching of writing across campus |
Ginny Crisco |
Forward to department for further review |
| Create some "space" similar to makerspaces where students, staff and faculty can realize
their creative ideas, share their passions and learn to be better |
The Nguyen |
Forward to department for further review |
| Open the Bold Ideas Challenge to students |
Sharon Ramirez |
Forward to department for further review |
| Collaborate with other CSU campuses and start doing regional outreach throughout CA. |
Cesar S. Chavez |
Forward to department for further review |
| Develop professional development training for faculty that focuses on identifying
signs that a student could use support for personal issues and how to respond to these
signs. |
Christine Edmondson |
Forward to department for further review |
| Establish a clear rhetoric and transparent policy with professors and students about
the number of tests allowed per day to alleviate some of the frustrations associated
with the testing center; also establish an online time estimate trackings system for
students, similar to Disneyland. |
Kelli Kennedy |
Forward to department for further review |
| Create a multi-disciplinary, student led, on-campus clinic to promote student success
and meet students' hands-on learning needs and serve the community needs surrounding
Fresno State. |
Leslie Zarrinkham |
Forward to department for further review |
| Offer two 3-unit GE courses in Leadership Development and Career Development via the
Center for Leadership to help students discover their passion, align this with their
talents, and lead the change they seek in their personal lives, profession, or community. |
John McMillen |
Forward to department for further review |
| Give Fresno State pre-service teachers positive experiences with teaching the new
pedagogical science standards throuhg the Fresno State "Bulldog STEM-Rich Makerspace."
This will allow students to learn how to deliver STEM-Rich and innovative lessons
to students visiting the 'Bulldog STEM-Rich Makerspace' as part of the undergraudate
science courses. |
Jerry Valadez |
Forward to department for further review |
| Hold an "Olympic" type event every year with various categories/challenges. |
Lee Xiong |
Forward to department for further review |
| Create an incentivized challenge program modeled on the "x-prize" to radically improve
the pass rate of "gate keeper" courses at Fresno State. |
Dennis Bacon |
Forward to department for further review |
| Implement a novel mixed research method that can monitor well-being indicators of
students within the context of higher education to gather information on the impact
of students' feeelings of safety, belonging, and psychological well-being. |
Christian Wandeler |
Forward to department for further review |
| Coordinate a day where athletes get to teach their sports to their professors, such
as an all staff batting practice and kick-off to spring sports. |
Jamie Walton |
Forward to department for further review |
| Send out notices about programs to students more frequently |
Cirenio Pizano |
Forward to department for further review |
| Commit dedicated staff and funding for initiatives to educate and retain students
of under-represented ethnicities. |
Angel Landridge |
Forward to department for further review |
| Develop an online "Teacher-match" as part of the credentialing program where student
teachers and cooperating/master teachers create online profiles and are matched based
on specific needs. |
Emy Lopez Phillips |
Forward to department for further review |
| Create a Transfer Student Summit to increase transfer student engagement by incorporating
what students would normally learn during Dog Days, with an additional component of
student success strategies and campus resources. |
Tosha Giuffrida |
Forward to department for further review |
| Develop Professional Learning Communities (PLC's) for at risk students to connect
previously isolated student success initiatives to others on campus. First year at
risk students would be matched with faculty and staff into two PLC's to offer support. |
Emily Walter |
Forward to department for further review |
| Create a single-stop CARE Center for Campus Advocacy Resource and Education Center
that would have a community resource case manager and student interns. |
Jessica Medina & Kizzy Lopez |
Forward to department for further review |
| Change the name of "Columbus Day" to "Indigenous Peoples Day" to be includisve of
all peoples and cultures indigenous to the Americas. Promote cross-cultural celebrations. |
Kenneth Hansen |
Forward to department for further review |
| Boost awareness and participation in Dogs United to reach a wider range of students,
faculty, staff, and administrators. |
Francine Oputa |
Forward to department for further review |
| Identify Dream students from various backgrounds and at all academic levels to develop
a book with biographies to motivate and inform young Dream students, and develop workshop
presentations that include current CA legislations, educational and career opportunities,
and financial resources available for Dream students. |
Paul Moreno & Martina Granados |
Forward to department for further review |
| Embrace open-source software across campus instead of proprietary software students
may not have access to (e.g., SPSS) |
David Vera |
Forward to department for further review |
| In the "Room Details" tab in 25Live, include instructions of which department or person
to contact for reservations. |
Na Lee |
Forward to department for further review |
| Develop and implement "Be Bulldog Bold," a two-day interactive orientation where incoming
students are introduced to the ideas of Discovery, Diversity, and Distinction, and
how each of these components interweave to create a sense of self-pride, appreciation
of others, and the mindset to start them on their way to becoming inclusive leaders. |
Vicki Taylor |
Forward to department for further review |
| Offer summer support to students taking the National Physical Therapy Examination
for licensure after graduation. |
Bhupinder Singh |
Forward to department for further review |
| Foster interdisciplinary interactions by taking one day of instruction per semester
to have all students on campus focus on a presentation by a guest speaker on a relevant
topic, then discuss in mixed groups. |
Benjamin Boone |
Forward to department for further review |
| Assign a writing tutor to specific departments who are trained in discipline specific
writing norms and citation styles. |
Paul Ullucci |
Forward to department for further review |
| Have designated sleeping areas on campus for studnets |
Saxton Dvera |
Forward to department for further review |
| Encourage each of the departments to add a brief phrase or sentence on the permission
process for that particular course in the "Enrollment Information" box within the
"Class Details" window. |
Jenny Saechao |
Forward to department for further review |
| Utilize a report that will indicate all classes remaining for seniors for the upcoming
semester, and build their course offerings and number of course sessions based on
these numbers |
Jenny Saechao |
Forward to department for further review |
| An annual meet the clubs dinner/formal where all of the organizations come together
and share a little about what they do and stand for. |
Diamond Morehead |
Forward to department for further review |
| Enhance the registration process to include a prompt for students to select any services
they may need (e.g., note taking, interpreting, real time captioning, etc.). Then
flag the respective class as needing a service. |
Michelle Montelongo |
Forward to department for further review |
| Establish a financial literacy program to assist students in making informed financial
decisions before, during, and after college. |
Arthur Montejano, Jake Ward, Frank Puccio |
Already happening |