Student Engagement: Ramapo College

1. Student Engagement: Ramapo College

2. Beth Barnett, Provost • Miki Cammarata, AVP Student Affairs • Pat Chang, AVP Student Affairs • Eric Daffron, Vice Provost • Chris Romano, AVP Enrollment Management Steering Committee

3. Retreat Participants

4. College completion • a primary indicator of student success in college • a gauge of an individual’s economic potential and contribution to the community and the workforce. • a measure of the productivity of colleges and universities. • a benchmark of the value and cost of higher education Colleges must demonstrate increasing percentages of students who complete college and graduate within six years. Student Success in College

5. Goal 1: ADVANCE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND ENGAGEMENT OBJECTIVE 1.2 The College will ensure that students increase academic, personal, social, and civic engagement by offering enhanced curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular programming. Ramapo College Strategic Plan 2014-2018

6. Student Engagement Consistentlyaligns with student success

7. What is Student Engagement? Student engagement represents the time and effort students devote to activities empirically linked to the intended outcomes of college and what institutions do to both provide these activities and induce students to participate in them (Kuh, 2009).

8. COMMONLY RECOGNIZED HIGH IMPACT ACTIVITES THAT ENGAGE STUDENTS: substantive interaction with peers, faculty, and staff first year seminars, peer mentoring/education, faculty-student research, student attendance/presentation at conferences,living-learning communities, service learning, common readings, or study abroad, campus jobs, clubs, organizations and teams.

9. Student engagement is generally considered to be among the better predictors of learning and personal development (Carini, Kuh, & Klein, 2006). • “Educationally purposeful” practices produce the following student outcomes: • Investing time and effort • Interacting with faculty, staff, and peers about substantive matters • Experiencing diversity • Responding to more frequent feedback • Reflecting and integrating learning • Discovering relevance of learning through real-world experiences (Brownell & Swaner, 2010) Positive Outcomes of Student Engagement

10. How an institution deploys its resources and organizes the curriculum, other learning opportunities and support services to lead to positive experiences and desired outcomes such as persistence, satisfaction, learning and graduation. (Kuh, 2001 and Pascarella/Terenzini, 2005) Student Engagement Plan

11. Survey data showing perception of Ramapo College as a “suitcase” college. • Survey data showing unsatisfactory level of student time dedicated to out of class academic work. • Policy change to no freshman cars on campus. • Procedure changes on alcohol policy violations. • Desire to improve retention and graduation rates. • Student success! Why did we decide to focus on Student Engagement?

12. Understanding “Why a Student Engagement Project?” • Review work to-date: First Year Student Engagement Plan Second Year Student Engagement Plan • Begin planning for the Junior and Senior years Retreat Goals

13. Student Engagement: Ramapo CollegeWhat Has Been Accomplished?

14. FYE Board Student Engagement Retreat Friday, October 18th Christopher Romano Meghan Gregory

15. Goal 1, Academic Engagement: Interaction, participation and interest in gaining skills and increasing knowledge. Seeking ways to relate learning inside the classroom with life outside the classroom. • Outcome 1: Students will apply classroom knowledge to current experiences and future goals. • Outcome 2: Students will explore their own and other cultures, beliefs, and practices. • Outcome 3: Students will use college-level discourse in speaking and writing both individually and in groups. • Outcome 4: Students will conduct research and use technology responsibly and effectively. • Goal 2, Social Engagement: Interaction, participation, and interest in socializing with others within an active community. Seeking activities that facilitate positive relationships with others. • Outcome 1: Students will explore opportunities for involvement in campus activities. • Outcome 2: Students will establish connections with their peers, faculty, and staff. • Outcome 3: Students will embrace being a member of the Ramapo College community and celebrate college pride. • Goal 3, Personal Engagement: Interaction, participation, and interest in knowing self and self in relation to the world. Reflection on one’s place on the campus, in the community, and in the world. Understanding one’s strengths and weaknesses and using this knowledge to reach one’s goals. • Outcome 1: Students will demonstrate their ability to identify and utilize campus resources when needed. • Outcome 2: Students will take responsibility for their personal development and construct a plan to achieve it. • Outcome 3: Students will become self-reflective and challenge their current view of the world and their place in it. • Goal 4, Campus/Civic Engagement: Interaction, participation and interest in the social, cultural, and leadership aspects of the College. Building the skills necessary to become active, engaged citizens who make the College, the nation and the world better places to live, learn, and work. • Outcome 1: Students will understand their roles, rights and responsibilities as citizens of the Ramapo campus. • Outcome 2: Students will understand their roles, rights and responsibilities as local, national and global citizens. Student Engagement Goals and Outcomes

17. 2012 First Semester SurveySocial Engagement

18. 2012 First Semester SurveyPersonal Engagement

19. 2012 First Semester SurveyCampus and Civic Engagement

20. 2012 First Semester SurveyAcademic Engagement

21. Moved Convocation to Welcome Week to better target first-year students and raise academic expectations • Introduced School Receptions Changes based on Academic Engagement Data for Fall 2013 Programming

22. Over 400 students attended the School Receptions providing a meaningful conclusion to an academically engaging Tuesday afternoon that began with Convocation and included discussions with First-Year Seminar Faculty. • 91.8% of students strongly agreed or agreed that their attendance at the School Reception provided them an opportunity to interact with other students, faculty and/or staff • 76.5% of students rated the Receptions as Very Good or Excellent • The overall objective of adding School Receptions was to raise the academic expectation of the entering class. Based on the data, this goal was achieved: 97% of students strongly agreed or agreed that they better understand Ramapo's academic expectations to enhance their learning because of Welcome Week.  Welcome Week School Receptions

23. SYE Board Student Engagement Retreat Friday, October 18th Eric Daffron Michael LaPorta

24. Student Engagement Goals and OutcomesSecond Year

25. Student Engagement Goals and OutcomesSecond Year

26. Student Engagement Goals and OutcomesSecond Year

27. Student Engagement Goals and OutcomesSecond Year

28. Sophomore KPE’s

29. 13 scheduled KPE’s • 10 implemented and assessed Sophomore Year Experience 2012-2013

30. SAIL • Series of seminars • 25 participants • Completers received honor cords and certificates at a Leadership Reception. Sophomore Year Experience Highlight

31. Academic Advisement • Only required KPE • Target of 75% of holds removed • Target met: 93% of holds removed Sophomore Year Experience Highlight

32. Paused at the end of second-year planning to look at transfer students • Reviewed the unique characteristics and needs of transfer students and discussed how to incorporate this knowledge into current and future planning Transfer Students

33. Tracking KPE’s via “My CCT”

34. What we know about today’s college students and Juniors and Seniors in particular

35. Digital Natives • Most diverse generation in Higher Education history • At once more connected and more isolated than their predecessors • Facing worst economy in recent memory but continue to have high aspirations for the future Today’s College Students

36. Academic skills developed from “teaching to the test” • More dependent on parents – “not permitted to skin their knees” • Much more likely to move back home with parents • Born into and will live their lives in a nation enduring profound change at a speed and magnitude never before experienced Today’s College StudentsContinued….

37. Engaged in community service • Utilitarian in their goals for College • More issue-oriented than ideological • Will likely have 8-10 different jobs and 3-4 different careers in a lifetime Today’s College StudentsContinued….

38. Undergraduate EnrollmentFall 2012

39. Transfers by Student LevelFall 2012

40. Transfer Students by Institution TypeFall 2012

41. Undergraduate Residential StatusFall 2012

42. Juniors (673, 24.3%) Seniors (549, 19.9%) Laurel = 42.6% Village = 75.2% CPA = 30.3% Laurel = 15.3% Village = 14.2% Other Areas = 9.5% Other Areas = 12.9% Special Interest Housing: Sustainable Living:  6 juniors & 6 seniors Gender Neutral:  26 juniors & 9 seniors Residence Life(areas of concentration)

43. Undergraduate Degrees by SchoolFall 2012

44. Cooperative Education ParticipationFall 2012

45. Study Abroad ParticipationFall 2012

46. During the current school year, about how often have you done each of the following?(1=never; 2=sometimes; 3=often; 4=very often)

47. About how many hours do you spend in a typical 7-day week doing the following?(1=0 hrs.; 2=1-5 hrs.; 3=6-10 hrs.; 4=11-15 hrs.; 5=16-20 hrs.; 6=21-25 hrs.; 7=26-30 hrs.; 8=more than 30 hrs.)

48. To what extent has your experience at this institution contributed to your knowledge, skills, and personal development in the following areas?(1=very little; 2=some; 3=quite a bit; 4=very much)

49. What should our students know and be able to do by Graduation…

50. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH Many colleges and universities are now providing research experiences for students in all disciplines. Undergraduate research, however, has been most prominently used in science disciplines. With strong support from the National Science Foundation and the research community, scientists are reshaping their courses to connect key concepts and questions with students' early and active involvement in systematic investigation and research. The goal is to involve students with actively contested questions, empirical observation, cutting-edge technologies, and the sense of excitement that comes from working to answer important questions. Undergraduate Research