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Susie Brubaker-Cole Associate Provost for Academic Success and Engagement Kerry Thomas

Building a Cross-Campus, Collaborative Academic Success Intervention for First Year Students at OSU. Susie Brubaker-Cole Associate Provost for Academic Success and Engagement Kerry Thomas Academic Advisor College of Liberal Arts Oregon State University. Overview.

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Susie Brubaker-Cole Associate Provost for Academic Success and Engagement Kerry Thomas

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  1. Building a Cross-Campus, Collaborative Academic Success Intervention for First Year Students at OSU Susie Brubaker-ColeAssociate Provost for Academic Success and Engagement Kerry Thomas Academic Advisor College of Liberal Arts Oregon State University

  2. Overview Unifying academic advising approach across units Proactively connecting students with academic support according to individual needs who are at high risk of attrition Low-Tech Analytics to identify and track students Consistency across multiple, decentralized advising sites Campus Partnerships Advising= retention and success Initial results and assessment strategy

  3. Where are our first year students at when they enter college? Characteristics? Concerns? What do they know? What do they need to learn?

  4. History of Advising at OSU Decentralized- advising in silos Weak connections between support systems Stagnant retention rates and a persistent achievement gap across student demographics Lack of consistent, data-informed process and proactive connections

  5. Key Partnerships Process Partners Core team: Advisors, Registrar, Academic Success Center Intervention Partners Advisors, Academic Success Center, Housing, Student Affairs Support Services

  6. Documents *Communication Templates *Online Survey- Qualtrics Timeline Contract AR 22 chart Handouts for resources *For electronic access to all of our documents, please sign the information request going around

  7. Debrief in Partners How does this program compare with what your campus is currently doing? What questions do you have about how something worked or why we did something a particular way?

  8. Initial Results Fall 2012 Freshman Enrollment 4,640 First Year Enrollment in Pilot Colleges 3,196 STAR students- 9% of First Year Pilot Enrollment

  9. Progress after winter term grades: • Overall decrease in students progressing to probation from previous years • 176/260 or 68% made GPA gainsfrom fall to winter grades

  10. Most used referrals in the pilot:

  11. Implications for Advising Time commitment ~ 45 minutes To 1 hour per student Administration Intervention Follow-up Financial aid- suspended after Winter grades Different models One Advisor Shared Advising Recommendations for training and support

  12. Next Steps at OSU University Momentum and program expansion More Colleges More Classes Data Driven Interventions Classes Programs Support Systems

  13. Wrap-Up Where can you take elements of this program and adapt it to work on your campus? What modifications would you make to have this fit on your campus?

  14. Thank you for your time

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