The Urban Academic Village

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• Attempting to accomplish our mission of
  increasing retention and delivering a quality
  service to our customers required additional
  student support on all levels, so we had to
  search out solutions to aid us in accomplishing
  this mission.
• GradesFirst software is an online real-time early
  alert warning system with the intended purpose of
  increasing student retention.
• Increasing student retention can be accomplished
  by several ways in the use of GradesFirst
  software.
• 1. Increased 1st year student support through
  the following
• a. Utilizing the comprehensive student support
  system which combines Advising, Tutoring, and
  Early Alert Management that will keep support
  staff connected to the students.( Intrusive
  Advising)
• b. Early alert warnings can be set for grades,
  classroom attendance and any other student
  advisory needs identifying them as at risk
  students and notifying the proper support
  professionals.
• 2. Increasing student engagement on all levels
  through personalized communications such
  as email, texting and social medias.

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Services

• Tools to intervene with University support
  services that include text, email, advising
  management, and tutoring management
• Online access to advisor/tutoring appointments
• Integrated Calendar notifications and reminders
  (to students and faculty)
• The process and system to identify students who
  need additional assistance early in the term,
  prior to an academic crisis.
• Progress reports
• Midterm grade reports
• Intervention and student engagement required to
  make the greatest impact on student academic
  recovery.

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GradesFirst on TSUs Campus

• TSU Learning Center
• Study hall check-in check-out
• Mentoring / Tutoring appointment check-in
• Events scheduled meetings check-in
• All student communications email text
• Report generation
• Fairchild Building
• Tutor scheduling Student check-in for tutoring
• JHJ Business Building
• Advisory appointment scheduling
• Early Alert management
• Identifying at risk students
• Researching Report generation
• Intrusive advising
• Athletics (HPE Computer Lab Recreation Center
  Study Hall)
• Progress reports
• Intrusive advising
• Early alert
• Computer use check-in

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Statistics for TSU UAV Program

• UAV has a current success rate of approximately
  80 of student pass rate, with 130 students (out
  of 160 students) performing at a 2.0-4.0 GPA
  level or higher.
• Current GPA Analysis
• 2 Students 4.0 GPA
• 130 Students 2.0-3.0 GPA
• 28 Students 0.2-1.9 GPA
• (69 students of the 130 students are 2.49-4.0
  GPA)

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Previous Semester Progress
(Graph above) Fall 2013 midterm report indicated
98 students were flagged as at risk due the
reported grades lower than a C-. At the close of
the semester, 80 of those students received
GPAs of 2.0 or higher, with 67 students
performing at a 3.0 or higher GPA level.
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