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Goal/Objective/Strategy Goal B: By 2015, increase Gallaudet’s six-year undergraduate graduation rate to 50%. Objective 1: Create environment and support systems to encourage retention and successful completion Strategy 4: Extend the Peer Mentor program for underprepared students from first year to second year. Strategy Leader: Darian Burwell Strategy Partners: Edgar Palmer (ODES); Kathleen Wood (GSR 101/150) and Alim Chandani (Student Success Specialist-Peer Mentorship) Key Programs/Offices Involved: Student Success, GSR, Academic Advising Performance indicators: % of students participating in mentoring program who meet Support Programs success criteria: a) % who are retained; b) % who in good academic standing at the end of a year; c) % of students who declare majors by 50 credits Tasks/Action Steps

Responsibilities

Proposed Resources*

Timeline**

(what will be done) (don’t forget to include assessment and evaluation processes)

(who will do it)

(funding, time, people, materials)

(by when? Month/day/year)

NEW: Collaborate with Chief Diversity Officer and Executive Director of ODES on GSP B 2.3 for sharing resources and tracking students who are eligible for mentoring from both programs. (GSR 101/Starfish)

Student Success/ ODES

Starfish, Bison

Fall 2013

Hire, Train & Assign Peer

Student Success/ ODES/

GSR Faculty development training, PM paraprofessional training, PM

Summer

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Mentors to GSR 101 D/S /R/A/H courses to target all first year students.

GSR/ Academic Advising

weekly meetings and classes, student success seminars, culture competency,

2013

NEW: Establish a means to identify first-year students in GSR 101 who are at-risk and connect the Peer Mentors and Instructors with identified students. Students can be identified as at-risk through various means and at various times during the semester/year i.e. attendance, the StarFish Early Alert system, midterm grades, and final grades). Once student identified, Peer Mentor performs outreach, develops a contract with student that includes regular meetings with student on a weekly basis, documenting contact and progress of meetings in StarFish

Retention Coordinator/Student Success/ODES/Academic Advising/GSR

StarFish Early Alert

Spring 2014

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system throughout the semester/ academic year. Collaborate with GSR 150 and GSR 110 to continue providing Peer Mentor outreach to identified students during the first-year, second-semester. Work on Academic Recovery Plan (StarFish) for students who are on academic probation/atrisk at the end of each academic term based on criteria such as poor GPA, high number of flags in Starfish, in danger of losing financial aid, and frequency of incidents in the dorm. Students would be required to meet with PM/PA and PM/PA would document contact meetings and keep notes.

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Student Success/ODES/Career Center/GSR

Starfish, Bison

Spring 2014

Academic Advising (how?)

Student Success/Academic Advising/Residence Life/ODES

Spring 2014

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Collaborate with Residence Life (LLRH6 Initiative 2014) to provide mentoring to identified high risk/at – risk 2nd year students

Student Success/ODES/Residence Life/Academic Advisiing

Assign Peer Mentors for Transfer students

Student Success/ Academic Advising/ GSR/ Admissions/Orientation

Starfish, Bison

Spring 2014

Document individual student meetings into Starfish (in collaboration with GSP B.1.5)

Student Success/Academic Advising/GSR/Retention Coordinator

Starfish training

Spring 2014

Student Success/Academic Advising/GSR/Retention

Starfish training/faculty development

Fall 2013

Assessment: Starfish analytics Surveys Require Starfish reports from GSR 101 Faculty (in

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collaboration with GSP B.1.5) Assessment: Starfish Data Through GSR 310, train and supervise Peer Mentors in their roles as Peer Mentor Assessment: Students/Instructors evaluate peer mentors midterm and end of term (reflection Conduct Assessment of Program to evaluate effectiveness and outcomes

Coordinator

Student Success/GSR/ODES

Weekly classes and meetings

Fall 2013

Student Success

Assessment tools:

Winter 2013 (end of each semester)

Collaborate with ASL Student Success/ASL department to assign Department mentors for ASL 101/102 (also GSP B.1.6 ASL Center) Assessment: Course evaluation

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pre-survey post-survey(satisfaction) Starfish Analytics Retention & GPA data SLOs Mission Statement Ongoing meetings with ASL and TIP department

Fall 2013

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Pre/post tests Challenges: Role of Peer Advisors and Peer Mentors? Need to find out how can best work with PA and PM since working with same students * Resources may need to be coordinated across organizations

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** Timelines may be ongoing

Gallaudet Strategic Plan Action Planning Template (Please use one action planning template for each strategy)

Strategy B.1.4 Extend the Peer Mentor program for underprepared students from freshman to sophomore year, on into the major.

Strategy Leader(s) Director of Student Success

Action Plan

Performance Indicators

PM will be assigned to a GSR 101 course with a GSR instructor

- % of underprepared students participating in peer mentoring program who are retained

PMs will meet with GSR 101 instructor on a regular basis about students’ academic progress. PMs will also have Learning Lab hours available for students to attend for additional help 2x a week.

PMs will document weekly logs and meeting times with students in StarFish

- % of underprepared students participating in peer mentoring program who are in good academic standing - % of underprepared students participating in peer mentoring program who declare majors by 50 credits

*PMs will meet with transfer students and work out a -Increase in declaration of major plan? at the end of sophomore year for underprepared students admitted through ARC and/or Jumpstart. PMs will join faculty training, training, Peer advisor training, be part of NSO Weekly meetings with GSR 101 and PMs -Increase in credits attempted/credits earned PMs will collaborate with pa and other departments percentages among all on dorm programs underprepared students and by disaggregated data. 2x study table,

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