Strengthen Adult-Student Relationships
Progress: Added time to weekly schedule for students to meet with advisors |♦| Explored how to reduce residential faculty-to-student ratio to 15:1, consulting with other boarding schools and EHS faculty and students |♦| Investigated best practices for enhancing experience of seated meals |♦| Hung international flags in dining hall representing all students
Next Priorities: Develop an enhanced residential life curriculum focused on advisory conversations and adult-student dorm interactions |♦| Secure advisory time within new schedule |♦| Continue progress toward construction of two new dorms (target occupancy: Fall 2022) to reduce residential faculty-to-student ratio |♦| Experiment with seated meal programs and rotation
Foster an Inclusive Community
Progress: Successfully commemorated 50th anniversary of integration |♦| Audited weekend activities programs and student participation and engagement |♦| Examined purpose and focus of all student organizations |♦| Developing programming focused on healthy relationships, social-media use and influence, and an inclusive EHS community |♦| Began partnership with the Social Institute and other advisory groups |♦| Revised dorm-visitation rules and expectations around healthy student intimacy
Next Priorities: Introduce student-leadership training focused on facilitating conversations and nurturing healthy relationships |♦| Highlight student cultural organizations and affinity groups at first of year and measure change in engagement levels |♦| Follow-up student survey on adjustments to weekend activities approach |♦| Evaluate all admissions materials for their focus on diversity, inclusion, and strength of community
Enhance Communications
Progress: Redesigned website for more modern look and increased ease of use |♦| Audited communications between advisors and parents |♦| Explored improvements to Parent Community Meeting e-newsletter to increase engagement |♦| Examined Family Weekend programming and scheduling
Next Priorities: Experiment with “Digital Coffee” web-based Q&A sessions for parents |♦| Seek parent feedback on overall communications approach and effectiveness |♦| Create targeted parent groups, including past parents and international families, and enhance currently active networks
Strengthen the Alumni Network
Progress: Successfully commemorated 50th anniversary of integration at EHS |♦| Expanded and enhanced on-campus programming involving alumni, including CONNECT events on and off campus |♦| Launched mentorship opportunities between alumni and the Black Student Association, Spectrum, and student affinity groups
Next Priorities: Launch CONNECT 2.0 event on Spirit Weekend 2019 |♦| Coordinate calls between alumni and seniors in preparation for senior externships |♦| Relaunch and promote online alumni directory |♦| Explore app-based alumni-to-alumni networking options |♦| Continue cultivating alumni who reconnected to EHS through event commemorating integration