Housing and Dining Programs is currently considering changes to the EagleEye program, including its name, according to Director of Residence Life Rick Treter.
Housing and Dining Programs is considering additional changes to the program, according to Treter. These changes include evaluation of data collection, storage and delivery and changing the documentation to make sure the program's intention is clear, Treter said in a Sept. 21 e-mail to The Eagle.
"Certain changes will be made to the original proposed program," Treter said in the e-mail.
Housing and Dining will not fully implement the program until administrators review the program, Treter said in the e-mail.
Under EagleEye's original definition, "Resident Assistants will submit online EagleEye Reports to the Director of Residence Life on a rolling basis for students they observe to be at risk, based on a series of criteria established by the Residential Education Team. The Residential Education Team, in coordination with the appropriate university office, will then determine the appropriate follow-up to increase student retention and success."
One of the EagleEye informational packets, which The Eagle had access to, identified one of the major goals of the program as early intervention and retention of students.
Under this goal, the program would "identify students who are at risk of leaving the institution," according to the packet.
This goal also said the program would "provide university resources that support transition and development toward personal and academic goals," according to the packet.
Treter said in the e-mail that Housing and Dining did not intend for the program to target individual situations.
RAs would go to an online form and enter their evaluations of one-on-one conversations with students. The RA would indicate the questions asked through marking check boxes and would also indicate the resident's satisfaction rating along with his or her own observational rating, Treter said in the e-mail.
"Since there was no student record information, and for ease of compiling this data, a GoogleDoc was designed to collect the information," Treter said in the e-mail. "This would allow simultaneous input. It was set to be delivered to me to ease the workload of the Resident Directors."
Treter has received feedback from professional and student staff members, residents and members of the Residence Hall Association, he said in the e-mail.
Christine Barndt, president of RHA, said she had not heard of the EagleEye program until The Eagle posted a "Breaking News" alert on Thursday afternoon. She then met with Treter to discuss the details of the program.
"To be honest, I left the meeting more confused," Barndt said.
Barndt said she and RHA are waiting for Housing and Dining to give an update on the program.
Housing and Dining postponed the announcement of the EagleEye program, which was intended to be unveiled in an e-mail Friday, The Eagle previously reported.
"I fully expect some students to opt-out," Treter said in an e-mail.
Treter sent an e-mail to all on-campus residents Friday to clarify The Eagle's original report on the program, which detailed the program's proposals but did not mention its release date.
Eagle Staff Writers Carolyn Phenicie, Jimm Phillips and Andrew Tomlinson contributed to this report.
You can reach this staff writer at jcalantone@theeagleonline.com.
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