Piloted the post-advising session survey in the Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering department and will use the survey feature in Retain to track responses.
The collaborative effort between the College Advising Centers in Arts & Letters and Sciences, OCCS, Web Communications, AE and SEES produced an interactive website to help students navigate the complexities of acquiring a degree, participating in campus activities, becoming a successful Monarch citizen, preparing for graduate school and the world of work, and engaging with ODU as alum.
Developed a Four-Year Blueprint for Student Success which laid the foundation for the "roadmap to success" concept. This concept led to the development of a "success map" categorizing the all the steps involved with completing a successful year. Categories include co-curricular, getting help, career/major, taking care of business, and success tips. This tool is currently in a draft state and when completed will mirror the major maps.
To promote and ensure the quality of peer mentoring programs, developed and implemented a nationally-certified mentor training program (College Reading and Learning Association) that is now being used as a service to agencies across campus.
Tutoring/Peer Mentors.
Success markers for majors - Guided Plan for success.
Established pre-awarding process for Leap & work study students.
Created new AE unit, Peer Educator Program, to reduce costs of academic services while expanding and coordinating tutoring, peer mentoring, and developing/supporting supplemental instruction.
Developed workshops to assist students with exploring scholarship opportunities.
Prorated freshman classes for Preview to stretch more evenly across all dates.
Informed parents of "time-to-degree" ramifications early in a student's enrollment.
Streamlined awards and processes for Work study & LEAP programs to promote affordably
Informed parents of "Time-to-degree" ramifications early in a student's enrollment.
IGrad financial tool implemented
Leap
Enhanced summer school offerings.
More online classes have been added
Increased outreach through the CRM
Engagement activities for summer school participants
Providing housing availability & meal plans.
Promotion by the Office of Financial Aid as well as advisors
Finish in 4 Campaign will feature summer school options
Raised standard on student classification to 30 credits for sophomores and 60 for juniors.
Developed Finish in 4 academic advisor kits.
Alerts sent to students approaching 45 credits about declaring majors.
Developed Exploratory Living Learning Communities (LLC) to promote major choices.
Developed four-year degree plans for each undergraduate major.
Integrated "Finish in 4" and career planning module into UNIV 120, UNIV 110 and STEM 110 classes.
Created a comprehensive website to integrate planning tools and promotions for "Finish in 4."
College Scheduler software implemented in fall 2013.
Promoted credit loads of 15+ per semester during Preview and Week of Welcome (WOW).
Launched Student Success/Retention Collaborative.
Student Retention Predictor identifies 150 risk factors of incoming freshman to target intervention strategies.
Online UNIV 100 students that stopped out.
Coaching Pilot.
Calling Campaigns.
Time to Degree - increase/additional credit hour.
Supplemental instructuion created (PASS 0 Peer Assisted Study Sessions).
Retention Calling - registration, holds, etc.
Out of State Retention program
DFWI decreases.
Established a Living Learning Communities Institute.
Expanded partnership with Academic Affairs and Student Engagement & Enrollment Services through connections with faculty to promote service learning, student engagement, leadership, and student success.
Established new student orientation called First Class. The program featured the following offerings: good choices seminars, freshmen engagement, and academic expectations.
Civic Engagement
Alternative Breaks - The Office of Leadership and Student Involvement took over 30 students to three different sites in the U.S. for their spring break to do service in those communities.
MLK Day of Service - over 200 participants cleaned up surrounding neighborhoods
Relay for Life - Over 80 teams of students raised over $60,000 for American Cancer Society
Service Learning
Service learning was added to the strategic plan and goals of Leadership and Student Involvement in the summer of 2013.
Established Assistant Director for Service Learning position in LSI. Searched and hired Dr. Emily Eddins in January of 2014.
Created ODU's Service-Learning Task Force- created action-based collaboration for service-learning comprised of 14 faculty members representing all seven colleges on ODU's campus.
Developed faculty information sheet, entitled Service-Learning at Old Dominion University, detailing student, faculty, and community benefits of service-learning and faculty support and resources that I provide.
Compiled Service-Learning Course Description packet, with brief course descriptions, service-learning requirement, community partner(s), service hours required per student, and instructor.
New Service-Learning Course Development, for Fall or Summer 2014:
ENGN 110 Explore Engineering and Technology, Randy Haddock
PAS 395 Public Service Communication, Brendan O'Hallarn
HLSC 768 Practicum in Global Health, Certificate in Global Health, Muge Akpinar-Elci
PAS 408 Public Service Films, Wie Yusuf
Monarch Experience
There were 1,427 first year students that participated in Monarch Experience from the Fall 2013 cohort. Of those that participated, 95% registered for Spring 2014 (compared to 90% of non-participants) and had an average GPA of 2.7 (compared to 2.5 for non-participants).
Living Learning Communities
Established living learning community options.
Service Learning.
Pre enrolment programs - FSI, Study Abroad, etc.
Brother to Brother group formed.
First Generation Outreach & Programming.
Developed multiple models for 1st-year orientation:
Developed for fall 2012, HNRS 200 "Peer Leadership Class," so students can learn to help others while they're helping themselves
Developed for fall 2012, BYODS (Bring Your own Device for Success): an apps-based series of success workshops designed by Shelley Rodrigo (Asst. Prof of English)
Developed for fall 2012, course-linked (ENGL 110) learning communities: "Health and Wellness" and "Outdoor Adventure"
Developed general education requirements and student success, developed special section of CS 126G (Computer Literacy) for spring 2013 and to use as a model for future CS 126G classes (Instructor and Course Developer: Nikos Chrisochoides, the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science)
Developed a parent on-line orientation.
Implemented Onboarding Checklist.
Developed First Class program.
Redesign Portal.
A Holds Committee was formed to evaluate the holds placed on student records. As a result of those efforts, four holds have been eliminated.
Students are now able to see their holds in a central location.
Implemented a new ODU Catalog Policy. Previously students were classified as sophomores if they completed 26 credits and students were designated as juniors if they had 58 credits. Now, students will need to earn 30 credits to be classified as a sophomore and 60 credits to be designated a junior. In order to achieve this goal, students will be encouraged to complete 15 credits per semester and/or use summer sessions to maximize class load.
Provided Associate Deans with six-year history of course schedule/offerings to enhance planning for future course offerings.
Published course sequences and indicate which courses will be available.
Winter Term created.
Examined the ODU entry process in an effort to create a more seamless and streamlined experience for prospective and enrolled students.
Systems to systems; continued progress being made to identify dashboard of metrics
Improved the WSPT (Writing Sample Placement Test): developed training and certification protocols for WSPT evaluators; developed tracking procedure and data base management to ensure timely reporting of results to students to facilitate student placement/advising at Previews (From 3 weeks or never to 100% reporting of WSPT scores in 1 week).
The Fall 2011 Monarch Think Tank (5 undergraduate researchers) developed, at the request of the math department, student success videos for calculus courses; The Fall 2012 Monarch Think Tank (5 undergraduate researchers) reviewed and proposed enhancements for Sophomore Success UNIV course to be implemented in 12-13.
Purchased and implemented Hobson's Education CRM Suite. It will facilitate purposeful connections between students and Old Dominion, maximizing communication opportunities allowing us to build, automate, execute, and track our entire admissions communications plan in a single place.
Retention Initiative - Early Alerts. The new Hobsons CRM will be used to identify and reach out to students who have needs for academic improvement.
TCI data (Freshmen).
Completed a graduate survey designed to determine next steps for addressing the needs of this population.
Identified major predictors of risk. Once these predictors were identified, they were grouped and placed into sub-categories. These groups were then used to create a predictive model to identify the risk factors that impede success.
Reviewed and revised Learning Commons (LC) and Student Success Center (SSC) governance structure to coordinate academic support services and to foster partnerships for the utilization of LC/SSC as "tools" for student success. New LC/SSC teams include Student Success and Learning Team (provides oversight for student success courses: training for faculty, assessment, approval of new courses), Academic Support Services Team (Advising Center Support Team (fosters cooperation, communication, assessment, and service standards for Advising Centers), Graduate Student Services (to identify and develop LC/SSC services to graduate students).
Launched "Career Parent," a virtual program to promote awareness of career/major programs, important dates, and financial aid information and time-to-degree initiatives.
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