Question 10
Are we living up to the promises made in our admissions materials for first year students? If not, where are we under delivering?
Are we living up to the promises made in our admissions materials for first year students? If not, where are we under delivering?
How and where do we teach the meaning of the liberal arts to our first year students?
How would you characterize the involvement of faculty with first year students? What sort of involvement would you like to see?
Does the current advising system meet the needs of first year students?
What sorts of initiatives with the city of Morris would be beneficial experiences for first year students?
Does our current orientation program meet the needs of first year students?
What learning outcomes should we expect the First Year Seminar program to meet?
Minutes from the Best Practices in First Year Experience work group 10.30
The Data work group has been reviewing data about our students. Here are some elements pulled from the CIRP (Cooperative Institution Research Program) survey given to first year students during orientation in the Fall of 2006.
Do our facilities support the needs of first year students? What sorts of spaces do we need to better meet first year students’ expectations?
Are first year students at UMM a cohesive group? If not, what sub-populations exist that we should look at?
What is the most important experience of first year students at UMM?
Contemporary thinking in relation to improving student achievement and student retention focuses on the significance of experiences in the first year. In an effort to strengthen the UMM first year student experience and in an effort to promote student retention from the first to the second year, a “disappearing task force� will be convened in fall 2007.