L&AD: Student Experience

Goal

As a student-centered institution, F&M will strengthen residential learning, support students’ health and wellbeing, and empower students to engage in an inclusive and joyful community, building lifelong connections while exploring their individual interests.

Objectives

1. Pursue inclusive excellence through academic and co-curricular programs that challenge students and support their personal development and success.
   
   
2. Prioritize student activities, organizations, athletics, recreation, and entertainments that support a sense of belonging, build affinity and community, and cultivate campus pride.
   
   
3. Create greater and more purposeful mentoring connections for students with faculty, professional staff, student peers, members of the Lancaster community, and alumni.
   
   
4. Revise policies and practices to better support students’ health and wellbeing.
   
   
5. Embrace and amplify F&M’s global identity and cultural fluency through enhanced geographic diversity among and support for international students, better connections with the College’s international community of students, scholars, and neighbors, and expanded opportunities for study and experiential learning abroad.
   
   
6. Better engage students with the Lancaster community and surrounding region.