• B.A cross-departmental team is currently collaborating to identify an online career assessment tool prior to conclusion of the current academic semester to be utilized for students who are undecided or contemplative about their major choices. This will enable professional staff to better provide major and career counseling to ensure that students are progressing through a major with a clear vision of their career goals.
• C.The University is currently in the implementing a suite of enrollment management software products that will assist in targeted recruitment, intrusive academic support and retention programming, degree tracking and completion, and academic success. The Assistant Vice President of RMAS serves as the lead for this implementation. The targeted “go live” timeframe for full execution of this project is the end of the calendar year.

Spring 2013 Retention Management and Advising Services Highlights

Academic Center for Excellence (ACE)

For Spring 2013, ACE has served over 353 students in more than 450 one-on-one tutorial sessions and an additional 393 students in workshops and classroom presentations, in collaboration with the FRIENDS program, including: research/writing documentation, essay planning, grammar review, time management, learning styles, managing math/test anxiety, math study skills, orientations to ACE and supplemental instruction, and goal setting.

ACE is collaborating with the Center for Academic Persistence and Success to address student progress following the midterm. The Director spoke with students in four different sessions to encourage use of tutorials and success workshops and answer questions about accessing student services. Students are coming into the Center as a result of this outreach. Developmental English and mathematics professors have been contacted in regard to supplemental instruction sessions. Tutor schedules have been distributed in the residence halls to promote usage.

The Center conducts regular tutor trainings to equip tutors with appropriate strategies for peer learning assistance. This semester, to date, the trainings have included: Ethics of Tutoring, Tutoring Do's and Don'ts, The Tutoring Cycle, Buildina Confidence vs. Dependency, and Effective Study Strategies.

Between the months of January and March, FRIENDS has served 114 students who have visited the center a total 355 times for various reasons including: lunch, computer usage, tutoring, workshops and group study.

The FRIENDS Program is collaborating with the Nursing Program to continue to address student progress following the midterm point through NEEP Program requirements and workshops. Students are coming into the FRIENDS Center seeking the nursing tutoring services provided through this collaborative effort as a result of this outreach.