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UK Undergraduate Education Meeting, August 17, 2011
The document provides an update on student success initiatives and retention rates at the University of Kentucky, highlighting improved retention figures, especially for first-generation students. It discusses the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) focused on multimodal communication across the curriculum, responding to employer demands for better communication skills among graduates. The document emphasizes the importance of faculty support and peer tutoring in enhancing student learning and engagement.
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- 1. Student Success Update UGEDivision MeetingAug 17, 2011
- 2. InformationTechnologyCELTLibrariesIRPEUndergraduate ExperienceUndergraduateEducationAcademic AdvisingAcademicSupportAcademic EnrichmentRetention ServicesP-20 InitiativesStudentAffairsCo-curriculumK-WeekUK 101Counseling ServicesStudent OrganizationsLLCHousingColleges andDepartmentsFacultyDegree ProgramsAcademic AdvisingCourse InnovationResearchEngagementStudentSuccessInstitutional DiversityAcademic Advising & Support Student ActivitiesEngagementInternational ProgramsStudy AbroadInternational ProgrammingEnrollmentManagementRecruit and MatriculateTransfer ServicesFinancial Aid/ScholarshipsRegistrationInformationTechnologyCELTLibrariesIRPE
- 3. 1st and 2ndYear Retention - 2000-2010 cohorts***estimatedBLUE = Projected
- 4. First Year Retention– First Gen3393 students718 students
- 5. Improving the Qualityof the Cohort
- 6.
- 7. What can youdo?As we interact with students, remember that they are the centrality of our existence.Be there to help students find appropriate resourcesSubmit Student Alerts on students you are concerned about.
- 8. Space, the FinalFrontierBringing student operations closer together…
- 9. Student SuccessRetention increasedto 81.8% for fall 2009 cohort, projected to be similar for fall 2010 cohort.UK 101, Peer Tutoring, Student Support for Underrepresented Minority and First Generation Students, Peer Tutoring all enhance successAcademic Enhancement Peer Tutoring Program provided nearly 17,600 sessions for students in entry level courses, up 17% from last year.Sophomore to Junior year transition must improve to erase ~10% attrition – Efforts in the Major!
- 10. The University ofKentucky’s QEP is MCXC !!!Drs. Deanna Sellnowand Diane Snow (QEP Co-Chairs)
- 11. What is aQEP?Quality Enhancement PlanA core requirement for SACS Reaffirmation of Accreditation: “. . . a carefully designed course of action that addresses a well-defined and focused topic or issue related to enhancing student learning”(SACS Handbook for Reaffirmation of Accreditation, 2007, p. 3).
- 12. What is ourQEP?Why are we here today?Multimodal Communication Across the Curriculum (MCXC)To tell you what it is and to generate “buzz”
- 13. Why MCXC?1) It’s what employers want. Association of American Colleges and Universities (Hart, 2007)
- 14. 2) 2009Follow-up . . .“[Only] one in four employers thinks . . . colleges are doing a good job” (p. 2).89% said colleges should place greater emphasis on developing students’“ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing” (p. 9). 81%: critical & analytical reasoning skills
- 15. 3) UKCoreDesign principle#3 (vertical integration)Learning outcome #2 (written, oral, and visual communication)4) Graduation Writing Requirement (GWR)Communication Requirement in the Major (CRM)
- 16. We’re “Number 1”! This program is unique nationally!!
- 17. Faculty DevelopmentStudent TutoringTohelp design instruction, assignments, and assessment tools to achieve profession-appropriate communication learning outcomes To help create and refine classroom communication projects (flat/static print, face-to-face, digital/online)
- 18.
Editor's Notes
- #3 Purpose is to show that all of us are responsible for Student Success. My goal is not to exclude, difficult to get more circles on the page. IT, CELT, Libraries, IRPE, etc… – implied that they support ALL missions..
- #4 Right now, 2010 is 82.9%2009 2nd year is 72.7%
- #5 Richard, this slide shows that our students with ACT < 22, on average are much less successful than the rest of the cohort. But, it also shows that the efforts of the past 4 years have raised first year success for the bottom quartile by 5 – 10%.
- #7 We have discussed this more than once. I have been actively looking for space possibilities. The time is now for us to develop the proposal, to bring the services together that will enhance efficiency and provide one-stop, or at least fewer stop shopping for our students. Appoint committee to put this together. Due this semester.
- #13 Yep we’re like the cheerleaders
- #15 DEANNA
- #17 Or at least we are first! Other universities have offered oral comm across the curriculum, writing across the curriculum, and even speaking and writing across the curriculum….none have yet created multi-modal communication (oral, written, visual) across flat print/static, face-to-face (interpersonal, teams, public speaking), and digital/online environments.
- #18 How will we do this? Develop infrastructure for support in two ways: Faculty development and Student tutoring
- #19 QUIZ: 1. What is MCXC? 2. Why did we pick it for our QEP? 3. How will we implement it?