The overall goal of the Student Experience is to provide an exceptional student experience that aligns with improved retention and timely graduation:
- Reinforce essential student skills through curriculum: Prepare students for lifelong learning by empowering them with essential learning skills. Strengthen the curriculum of all programs with experience in critical thinking, communication, applied learning and research.
- Expand out-of-class engagement: Supplement the classroom experience with a wide range of out-of-class learning activities.
- Promote student physical and mental well-being: Provide students with resources to help maintain their physical and mental health.
View the Student Experience components of the Strategic Plan.
SIT Members
Chair
- Dr. Kelly Austin, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost — University Administration
Executive Committee
- Bert Zarb, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
- Aaron Clevenger, Assistant Provost & Dean of International Programs
- Will Miller, Associate Vice President for Continuous Improvement & Institutional Performance
- Chris Whippy, Chief Business Officer — Daytona Beach
- Dietmar Rempfer, Dean, College of Engineering and Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Mathematics — Prescott
- Shanan Gibson, Dean, O'Maley College of Business and Professor of Management — Daytona Beach
- Peter Hoffmann, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Physical Sciences — Daytona Beach
- Lisa Kollar, Dean of Students
- Amy Jefts, Dean of Student Support
- Bettina Mrusek, Administrative Fellow, Chair, Department of COA Undergraduate Studies, and Associate Professor — Worldwide
- Maria Franco, Executive Director of Institutional Research
- Lee Wilkerson, Dean of Students — Prescott
- Jennah Perry, Interim Dean, College of Aviation — Prescott
Steering Committee
- Bert Zarb, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
- Pablo Alvarez, Associate Vice Chancellor, Campus Operations — Worldwide
- Lisa Kollar, Dean of Students
- Lee Wilkerson, Dean of Students — Prescott
- Amy Jefts, Dean of Student Support
- Rachel Vigness, Assistant Dean of Student Success & Accreditation, College of Business and Associate Professor of the Practice — Worldwide
- Tara Matusik, Assistant Dean of Student Support Services — Prescott
- Bettina Mrusek, Administrative Fellow, Chair, Department of COA Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor — Worldwide
- Daniel Friedenzohn, Senior Associate Dean, College of Aviation and Professor of Aeronautical Science —Daytona Beach
- Jeff Brown, Professor of Civil Engineering & Director of the Honors Program — Daytona Beach
- Michele Zanolin, Professor of Physics — Prescott
- Brian Roth, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering — Prescott
- Jennifer Hinebaugh, Associate Professor of Management — Daytona Beach
- Darren Skinner, Director of Undergraduate Advising
- Ronnie Mack, Director of Undergraduate Research
- Julie Ferguson, University Registrar
- Amy Cicchino, Associate Director for CTLE
- Evgeniia Egorova, President, Student Government Association — Daytona Beach
- Grace Brown, President, Student Government Association — Prescott
- Maria Franco – Executive Director of Institutional Research
- Deborah Prosser, Hunt Library Director
- Debra Bourdeau, Associate Dean for Student Success and Academics
- Zafer Hatahet, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences — Worldwide
- Tanya Corbin, Chair, Department of Security & Emergency Services
- Karin Gollin, Executive Director, Student Engagement & Student Union — Daytona Beach
- Henry Ponciano, Dean of Students — Worldwide
- E.J. Walicki, Executive Director, Housing and Residence Life
- Rich Nicols, Assistant Dean, Retention & Parent Student Programs
- Lisa Schlegel, Director of First Year Experience
- Heather Kim, Executive Director of Career Services
- Sandi Ohman, Director of Career Services Operations
- Darren Skinner, Director of Undergraduate Advising
- Teresa Michaelson, Director of Counseling Center — Prescott
Strategy Sub-Groups
- Academic Interventions and Programming - Bettina Mrusek (lead)
- Advising and Student Support - Amy Jefts (lead)
- Co-Curricular Initiatives - Lisa Koller (lead)