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Student Success

Mission Statement

The COAS Student Success Committee strives to enable and educate faculty on student success methods in their courses in order to retain students and help them complete their degree and to find and mitigate student challenges or obstacles to retention and completion.

 

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This guide provides an array of essential resources aimed at enhancing academic and personal growth for students and faculty within the College of Arts & Sciences. From tutoring and research opportunities to health and wellness services, financial aid, and living support, this document covers key programs and services designed to support the 91自拍论坛 community in every aspect of their academic journey.

Student Success Committee Events

 

Spring 2024

Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Time: 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

Location: Galloway Business Building, Room 101 (Landes Auditorium)

Description: This presentation will focus on improving faculty responses to barriers for student success.

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Committee Members

Department of Biology

Marilyn Kish-Molina, Instructor

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Paul Bernazzani, Professor

Department of Computer Science

Jiangjlang Liu, Professor

Greg Yera, Instructor

Department of English & Modern Languages

Anis Rahman, Assistant Professor

 

Department of History

Yasuko Sato, Professor

Department of Mathematics

Jose Vega-Guzman, Associate Professor

JoAnne Gay Dishman School of Nursing

Keili Peterman, Assistant Professor

Department of Physics

Eveny Romashet, Instructor

Department of Political Science

JP Nelson, Associate Professor

 

Department of Psychology

Melanie Webb, Instructor

Criminal Justice Program

Cheng-Hsien Lin, Associate Professor

Robert Worley, Professor

Undergraduate Advising Center

Christy George, Success Coach

Co-Chairs

Jianjiang Liu
Marilyn Kish-Molina

Strategic Success Initiatives

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College Initiatives

Fall 2023

The committee created a web page of student resources for faculty to refer to when assisting students.

Department Initiatives

Strategic success initiative each department will pursue in the 2023 - 2024 academic year.

Biology

Initiative: Create and implement one engaged learning activity per gateway course (1406/1407) per academic year
When: Each academic year
Who: Terry/Kish-Molina/Yoder
Measurement: Activity creation and implementation

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Initiative: Encourage Faculty to mentor students in undergraduate research and have them participate at the Undergraduate Research Expo and/or Chemistry Poster Competition
When: Every year
Who: Faculty and students
Measurement: Increase in the number of students participating in research and presenting at the Undergraduate Expo and/or Chemistry Poster Competition

Computer Science

Initiative: Enhance the CS First Year Program by regularly accessing and improving the effectiveness of the program, organize training sessions for master's students, and develop a comprehensive CS graduate student handbook.
When: Y23-24
Who: CS Faculty and Program Advisor.
Measurement: Exit Survey and Interview and yearly assessment process.

Earth and Space Sciences

Initiative: Bring in company representatives, alum, and faculty from Lamar and other institutions to talk about geoscience careers.
When:

Fall 23
Spring 24

Who: Chair, instructors, new T-T faculty.
Measurement:

How many speakers come to talk.

1 – Low
2 – Moderate
3 or more – High

English and Modern Languages

Initiative: Workshops in Spring 2024 to address meeting the challenges of Chat GPT, AI, etc. with up-to-date pedagogical interventions, encouraging more faculty participation in ACUE training, peer observation of teaching, career preparation workshops for both undergraduate and graduate students (open to all majors)
When: Fall 2023/Spring 2024
Who:

Amy Smith, Adam Nemmers, Sara Hillin, Jim Sanderson, Katt Blackwell Starnes

Measurement: Student and faculty attendance at the appropriate workshop or seminar, Post workshop/event discussions, implementation of various measures in the composition classroom

History

Initiative:
  1. Assigning Alternatives to formal essays.
  2. Hiring Student Ambassadors
When: Academic Year 2023-2024
Who:

1)All faculty teaching 1301 and 1302.

2) 4 student ambassadors

Measurement:

1)Higher pass rate

2)Higher retention

JoAnne Gay Dishman School of Nursing

Initiative: All new nursing faculty without a formal educational background in nursing education will be offered the opportunity to take 3 nursing education courses offered in the MSN program and earn a post-masters certificate in nursing education
When: Enroll in an MSN education course 6 months after hire and complete the 3 courses within the first two years of employment
Who: New nursing faculty without a formal educational background in nursing education
Measurement:

Successful completion of a post-masters certificate in nursing education after completing the following courses:

  1. MSNE 5350 Role Development, Learning Theory and Teaching Strategies for Nursing Educators 
  2. MSNE 5351 Curriculum Design
  3. MSNE Measurement & Evaluation

Mathematics

Initiative: Sponsor workshop for faculty to support new ways of incorporating study skills into coreq courses
When: Spring 2024
Who: PJ Couch
Measurement: Attendance at the workshop

Physics

Initiative: Peer Instruction (Tutoring), + Preparatory Physics (Phys 1370) + OpenStax in College Physics I/II
When: Now
Who: All Faculty
Measurement: Students employed as Lab TAs and as undergraduate researchers

Political Science

Initiative: Professional development seminars, i.e. interviewing, LSAT prep, etc…
When: Throughout the year.
Who: Various members of the department and the Pre-law society.
Measurement: Did they occur and number of students attending the seminars.

Psychology

Initiative: PSYC 2302 (Careers in PSYC) “Career Track” course assignment
When: Spring 2024
Who: Dr. Jodi Katz (PSYC 2302 instructor)
Measurement: Scores on rubric created for project. Number of students attending graduate school and number of students attending our own graduate program.

Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice

Initiative: Student Success Coordinator (SSC) will attend Program Director’s Meeting to discuss collaborative work toward student success.
When: November 2, 2023
Who: Student Success Coordinator (Christy George), Department Chair (Gummelt), all Program Directors (L. Wright, Harden, Lin, & Krause)
Measurement: Increased engagement with the Student Success Coordinator.  Program Directors will have a minimum of one direct contact with the SSC during the 2023-2024 academic year.