Institutional Collaborations to Support College Completion

1. Institutional Collaborations to Support College Completion Tiffany Bellafant Steward,Director of First Year StudentsJulie Roberts, Director of Academic Success

2. Founded in 1912 in Nashville, TN • Historically Black College/University (HBCU) • 1890 Land Grant University • Enrollment: 8816 • Undergraduate: 6749 • Graduate: 2067 • African-American: 5995 • Non-African-American: 2821 • In-State: 6813 • Out-of-State: 2003 TSU Overview

3. Complete College America • Complete College Tennessee Act of 2010 • Elimination of remedial/developmental education at Universities • Outcomes-Based Formula Funding • Articulation and Transfer (TBR and UT) • Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) Completion Agenda • Progression Benchmarks: 24, 48, 72 credit hours • Graduation Rates College Completion

4. TBR Student Populations PELL and URM Non A2S Students PELL URM TSU PELL and URM URM Non A2S Students PELL Adapted from Middlebrooks, C.; Completion Planning PowerPoint – TBR

5. Adapted from Middlebrooks, C.; Completion Planning PowerPoint – TBR

6. University Strategies • Creation of Division of Enrollment Management and Student Support Services • University-Wide Retention Committee • Title III Grants – SAFRA • Renovation and Reorganization of the Student Success Center

7. Advisement Center • Counseling Center • First Year Students • Math Center • Media Center • Reading Center • Tiger Alert • Tiger Tutoring • University Honor’s Program • Writing Center Student Success Center

8. Vision: • The Office of Academic Success will provide services and resources for the University community to assist students with academic success strategies and tools while providing a high level of customer service. • Advisement Center • Tiger Tutoring • Early Alert Academic Success

9. Serves all students under 60 credit hours • Registration Hold to Ensure Advisement • Coordinates Transfer Advisement and Dual Advisement • Develops and Hosts Academic Success Workshops Centralized Advisement

10. Early Alert System • Focus on first-time freshmen, learning support, and probation students • Advisement Center advisors provide initial intervention • Escalation to First-Year Retention Tiger Alert

11. Focus on General Education Courses and Tutoring • Staffed with faculty tutors • Hours: • 4:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Monday – Friday • 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Saturdays Tiger Tutoring

12. Mission: • To facilitate the transition of new students into the university and to acclimate new students to the campus community by preparing them for opportunities that promote student learning and development. • New Student Orientation • Faculty and Peer Mentoring • Freshmen Year Experience Programming • Parent Relations First Year Students

13. Required for First-Time Freshmen • Established Learning Outcomes • One-Day Sessions • New Presentations Offered: • Academic Success • Student Life • Residence Life • Student Conduct • Diagnostic Testing Changes • Required College Student Inventory (CSI) • Enhanced Advisement and Registration New Student Orientation

14. New Student Orientation Learning Outcomes Attendance/Participation Performance Outcome

15. New Student Orientation

16. New Student Orientation Learning Outcomes Attendance/Participation Performance Outcome

17. New Student Orientation

18. New Student Orientation Learning Outcomes Attendance/Participation Performance Outcome

19. New Student Orientation Learning Outcomes Attendance/Participation Performance Outcome

20. New Student Orientation Learning Outcomes Attendance/Participation Performance Outcome

21. Partners Faculty Mentors with First- Time Freshmen • TBR Access and Diversity Grant • Goals • To retain 75% of participants • To promote college completion by ensuring that 80% of participants complete >24 credit hours and attain a 2.0 Cumulative GPA Tiger Mentoring

22. 2012 – 2013 Results: • 70% fall-to-fall retention • 77% earned a cumulative GPA of a 2.0 or better in the first year of college • 63% earned 24 credit hours or more in the first year of college Tiger Mentoring

23. Improvements for 2013 - 2014: • Work with academic advisors to enroll students in 15 credit hours per semester • Request early alert data on mentees throughout the semester • Monitor mentees’ mid-term grades • Referrals by faculty mentors to academic support services such as tutoring and math, reading, and writing labs • Utilize the College Student Inventory to address challenges or weaknesses identified by the student Tiger Mentoring

24. Part of New Student Orientation • Integrated into Academic Advisement • Financial Aid and Scholarship Requirements • Reduce Debt • Accelerate Graduation • Launch Their Careers Early • Promotes Degree Completion Take 15

25. Random Sample of Freshmen enrolled in UNIV 1000 Take 15 Results

26. Personalized Snapshot • Identifies Preparedness, Concerns, and Expectations • Identifies Appropriate Resources College Student Inventory (CSI)

27. Fall 2012: • 676 Completed Surveys • Fall 2013: • - 982 Completed Surveys • - 670 Student Plans Were • Developed with Advisors • High Dropout Proneness: • - Over 50% of Students are • Identified as High • Dropout Prone CSI Data

28. Required 1 Credit Hour Course • Taught by Select Faculty and Staff • Coordinated through Academic Affairs • Steering Committee is comprised of Senior Level Administrators, Faculty, and Staff • Common Learning Outcomes • CSI and Advisement Modules Integrated in Curriculum • All Students are Monitored through TigerAlert Freshmen Seminar – UNIV 1000

29. UNIV 1000 Results – Fall 2013: • 1237 Students Enrolled in the Course • 51 Sections Offered • Average Enrollment per Section: 25 Students • 6876.5 Total Hours of Service • 5.56 Average Service Hours per Student Freshmen Seminar – Data

30. New Student Orientation • Prerequisites – Financial Literacy and CSI Completion • Smaller Ratio of Staff to Student • Tiger Mentoring • Expand Number of Mentors to Increase STEM Faculty • Allow Students to Provide Input on the Selection of Mentor • Take 15 • Expanding the Education of the Importance of the Initiative to Parents • Promoting Mini-Semesters and Summer School Moving Forward

31. Freshmen Seminar – UNIV 1000 • Integration of Peer Leaders into the UNIV 1000 Team • Training Peer Leaders to Assist With and Follow-Up with CSI Goals • Utilizing Mid-Year Student Assessment (MYSA) as a Post-Assessment Tool • Exploring the Feasibility of a Second Semester Seminar Focusing on Career Exploration and Major Closure Moving Forward (Cont.)

32. Tiffany Bellafant Steward 615-963-5173 tbellafant@tnstate.edu Julie Roberts 615-963-5968 jroberts6@tnstate.edu Thank You!

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