学生的成功

使命宣言

The COAS 学生的成功 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.

学生的成功 Committee Events

 

2024年春季

日期: 星期二,2024年4月23日

时间: 下午12:45 - 1:45

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

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

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委员会成员

生物系
  玛丽莲Kish-Molina, Instructor

Department of 化学与生物化学
  保罗·贝纳扎尼教授

Department of 计算机科学
  刘江江郎,教授

历史系
  David Robles, Assistant Professor

 

数学系
  Jose Vega-Guzman, Associate Professor

JoAnne Gay Dishman School of 护理
  Keili Peterman, Assistant Professor

物理系
  Rafael de la Madrid, Associate Professor
  教练,每一份面包

Department of 政治科学
  JP Nelson, Associate Professor

 

心理学系
  Edythe Kirk, Associate Professor

社会工作计划
  April Loya-Boggs,指导员

刑事司法方案
  Cheng-Hsien Lin, Associate Professor

Undergraduate Advising Center
   Christy George, Success Coach

联合主席

Jianjiang刘
玛丽莲Kish-Molina

Strategic Success Initiatives

学生成功标志

大学计划

2023年秋季

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

部门计划

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

生物学

倡议: Create and implement one engaged learning activity per gateway course (1406/1407) per academic year
当: 每学年
人: 特里/ Kish-Molina Yoder)
测量: Activity creation and implementation

化学 & 生物化学

倡议: Encourage Faculty to mentor students in undergraduate research and have them participate at the Undergraduate 研究 Expo and/or 化学 Poster Competition
当: 每年
人: 教师和学生
测量: Increase in the number of students participating in research and presenting at the Undergraduate Expo and/or 化学 Poster Competition

计算机科学

倡议: 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.
当: Y23-24
人: CS Faculty and Program Advisor.
测量: Exit Survey and Interview and yearly assessment process.

地球与空间科学

倡议: Bring in company representatives, 明矾, and faculty from Lamar and other institutions to talk about geoscience careers.
当:

下跌23
春天24

人: Chair, instructors, new T-T faculty.
测量:

How many speakers come to talk.

1 -低
2 -适度
3或以上-高

英语与现代语言

倡议: Workshops in 2024年春季 to address meeting the challenges of Chat GPT, AI, etc. with up-to-date pedagogical interventions, encouraging more faculty participation in ACUE training, 教学同伴观察, career preparation workshops for both undergraduate and graduate students (open to all majors)
当: 2023秋季/ 2024春季
人:

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

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

历史

倡议:
  1. Assigning Alternatives to formal essays.
  2. 聘用学生大使
当: 2023-2024学年
人:

1)All faculty teaching 1301 and 1302.

2) 4名学生大使

测量:

1)通过率更高

2)更高的保留

JoAnne Gay Dishman School of 护理

倡议: 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
当: Enroll in an MSN education course 6 months after hire and complete the 3 courses within the first two years of employment
人: New nursing faculty without a formal educational background in nursing education
测量:

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 护理 Educators 
  2. msne5351课程设计
  3. MSNE测量 & 评价

数学

倡议: Sponsor workshop for faculty to support new ways of incorporating study skills into coreq courses
当: 2024年春季
人: PJ沙发
测量: 出席研讨会

物理

倡议: Peer Instruction (Tutoring), + Preparatory 物理 (Phys 1370) + OpenStax in College 物理 I/II
当: 现在
人: 所有教师
测量: Students employed as Lab TAs and as undergraduate researchers

政治科学

倡议: Professional development seminars, i.e. 面试,法学院入学考试准备等等……
当: 全年.
人: Various members of the department and the Pre-law society.
测量: Did they occur and number of students attending the seminars.

心理学

倡议: PSYC 2302 (Careers in PSYC) “Career Track” course assignment
当: 2024年春季
人: Dr. Jodi Katz (PSYC 2302 instructor)
测量: 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

倡议: 学生的成功 Coordinator (SSC) will attend Program Director’s Meeting to discuss collaborative work toward student success.
当: 2023年11月2日
人: 学生的成功 Coordinator (Christy George), Department Chair (Gummelt), all Program Directors (L. 赖特,哈登,林, & Krause)
测量: Increased engagement with the 学生的成功 Coordinator.  Program Directors will have a minimum of one direct contact with the SSC during the 2023-2024 academic year.