- Purpose – Create a shared student success conversation
- Assessing Students’ Challenges – time of entry, institutional culture, collegiate career
- UT Referrals/Resources – comprehensive contact information
- Success Glossary – defines success and risk terms and UT resources and referrals
Goals
- Recognize….that ALL students experience “bumps in the road”
- Understand….potential risk factors for student departure
- Act….by identifying possible resources, interventions, or support services to address the varied needs of students
- Close the Gap…..connect with students and partner with academic support staff and student life staff
- Engage in a shared student success conversation
A Continuum of Risk
- At-risk: Conceptualize “risk” to include all factors that can reduce a student’s chance of graduating from UT, rather than limiting its review to academic factors.
- Every student has some degree of risk of not graduating until the time that he or she actually completes all graduation requirements.
Assessing Students’ Challenges
- Factors that may be inherent to the student at the time of entry into an institution
- academic preparation
- transfer status ( 2 or 4 yr)
- academic motivation and effort
- socioeconomic status
- first-generation (level of parental education)
- Factors that may be inherent to the student’s institution and program
- institutional culture
- academic rigor of degree
- academic and social support
- Factors that arise during a student’s collegiate career
- not progressing to major
- change of major/career
- personal issues
- loss of financial aid/scholarships
- level of engagement with UT community
Student Success Referral Guide Summary
- Provides a tool to ensure all students are being referred to resources that can best support them
- Close the gap! Connect with students and partner with academic support staff and student life staff
- Respond to GradesFirst “Early Alert requests” sent by First-Year Studies
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