SuccessNow Goals of Cohort Academic Advising (A Learning Approach) Include:

(Create SuccessNow Learning Community Cohort Academic Advising Teams – advisors, educational case managers, faculty, and academic support staff around each cohort of learning community students.)

Develop Student Decision-Problem Solving Skills that Reinforce Student Self Direction:

All steps of academic advising are teaching the student skills for becoming self-reliant.

· Decision Making skills

· Problem Solving skills

· Critical Thinking Skills

Since advising is teaching, advising must have a student learning focus:

Patricia Cross: steps in achieving a student learning focus include:

· identification of the intended learning outcomes,

· development of a system for measuring the achievement of outcomes,

· curriculum which is built backward from the intended outcomes,

· a wide range of options for achieving the intended outcomes, and,

· continual and systematic investigation into alternative methods for empowering students to learn.

At-Point-of-Assessment Advising

· Precision Scheduling

· Developmental advisor training

· Precision advising

· Educational Case Manager connects student to resources (fin. aid, etc.)

All Semester and Early Advising

SuccessNow Academic Cohort Advising Team: Academic Success, Reading, Writing course instructors, along with educational case manager advise students as a team.

Career and Educational Planning

· clarify their life and career goals;

· develop suitable educational plans;

· select appropriate courses and complementary educational experiences;

· interpret institutional requirements;

Integrated Student/Academic Support Career Pathways

· Developmental Advising

· Counseling

· Educational Case Managers

· CREW Center

· Academic Success Course

· ULTRA

· Student Work Programs

· Service Learning

· Student Career ePortfolios

· Web Portal to answer 80-90% of student questions

Support services in the institution:

Integrated Student/Academic Support

Learning Assistance

· Tutoring

· Supplemental Instruction

· Learning Center

· Writing Center

· Math Lab

· Academic Success Course

· Library

Support services in the community

What are they? Like the shadow, only Rhonda, Joni, and Daniel know.

How do student connect community services?

Early Warning/Intervention: create a plan for identifying at-risk students and intervention/referral resources – coordinated under educational case managers.

Attendance/Participation

___ Absent more than one day during the first two weeks of class.

___ Consistently late for class.

___ Does not participate in class.

___ Leaves class early.

Academic reasons for referral

___ Under-prepared for class.

___ Lack of preparation/withdrawal from classroom activities.

___ Lack of preparation/withdrawal from classroom activities.

___ Decline in quality of assignments/test performance.

___ Difficulty with assignments.

___ Difficulty with note taking, test taking and study skills

___ Difficulty with writing assignments

___ Difficulty with math assignments

Non-academic reasons for referral

___ Illness

___ Overt statements regarding difficulties.

___ Overt changes is demeanor (i.e. anxiety, aggression, etc ___ Work conflicts

___ Family Conflicts

Evaluate Student Progress Toward their Goals:

Create a way to define a pathway,

Identify the milestones along the way that show students the route from where they are to a different place they want to be;

Create structured plan for evaluating the progress based on plan and milestones.