No First-Year Student Left Behind

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No First-Year Student Left Behind

• Marcy Esler
• Director of Student Retention
• Mary Ann Giglio
• Director of the Student Learning Center
• Andrea Chauncey
• Coordinator of the First Year Experience
• SUNY College at Brockport

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Inventory

• Who are the first-year students?
• What are the practices that affect first-year
  students?
• Prior to first semester
• During the first three weeks
• Remainder of first year
• Ongoing
• What are the policies that affect first-year
  students?
• What data do we collect about our first-year
  students?

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Who are the First-year Students?

• Points of entry
• Definitions of first-year students
• Subgroups

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Practices that Affect Freshmen Prior to First
Semester

• Mission and Vision Statements
• Open Houses
• Brochures
• Gifts
• Mailings
• Placement
• Summer Reading
• Orientation Programs
• Peer Mentoring
• Academic Expectations
• Parent Newsletter and website

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Vision Statement

• The State University of New York College at
  Brockports vision
• Is that all students successfully complete their
  first college year establishing a foundation for
  understanding their own lives in the context of a
  diverse world and for completing their degree

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Mission Statement
The State University of New York College at
Brockport   Is committed to providing and
assessing a comprehensive educational experience
that promotes both the academic and co-curricular
success and engagement of all students in their
first year of college
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Practices that Affect Freshmen During the First
Three Weeks

• Welcome Weekend
• Freshman Seminar
• Block Scheduling
• Department Receptions
• Early Warning System
• Freshman Council
• Clubs Fair

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Practices that Affect Freshmen Remainder of Year

• Surveys
• Your Right to Know
• Advisement Handbook/Registration/Major
  Declaration
• Mid-term Grade Reports
• Health Center Initiatives
• STEPS to Success (probation program)

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Ongoing Freshmen Structures

• First-year Success Web page
• Student Learning Center
• Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
• Newsletter for Faculty
• Special Admit Programs
• Job Shop
• Faculty-in-residence

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Policies Affecting Freshmen

• Admissions
• Letters from academic departments to prospective
  students
• Computer Skills requirement
• Assignment of freshman advisors
• First Semester Curriculum
• Freshman Seminar
• Add/drop

• Major declaration
• RD interventions
• Mid-term/probation letters from advisors
• Registration schedule
• Restriction from certain courses
• Greek recruitment
• Probation/dismissal
• Parking

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First Year Data Collection

• Pre-enrollment
• Pre-term
• First Year
• Subsequent Years

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Recommendations

• Disseminate Mission and Vision Statements
• Reconfigure Student Retention Committee
• Annual faculty seminar on instruction of
  first-year students
• Focus on career development early in semester
• Study longitudinal trends in Early Warning
  Advisement Questionnaire

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Who are the First-year Transfer Students?

• Points of entry
• Definitions of first-year students
• Subgroups

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Progress to Graduation