Access to Success

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Access to Success
Academic Advising Tom Bachhuber, Career
Development Center Linda Huang, Multicultural
Student Center Jennie Klumpp, College of
Engineering Applied Science Kristin Roosevelt,
Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business
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Access to Success Campus Goals

• Increase first-year retention rates
• Eliminate the retention gap between
• students of color and white students
• Eliminate the retention gap between
• students placing at developmental versus
• college level math and English

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Why are we here?

• Review current data related to advising
• Exchange thoughts/ideas from various
• perspectives about advising
• Brainstorm on ways to improve the quality
• and/or access to advising

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AdvisorsWho are we talking about?

• Professional staff advisors
• Student service professionals
• 100 advising
• Decentralized within each school/college

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Current Data
(from comprehensive advising survey conducted in
spring 2007)

• 3,087 respondents
• all schools/colleges represented
• freshmen senior class standing represented

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Summary of Data

• 84.2 reported having contact with their advisor
  1 or more times in the fall 2006 semester (2,603
  responded)
• 49 rated the overall quality of advising as
  excellent or good 22 reported the quality as
  poor (2,605 responded)
• The data reflected some major gaps in student
  expectations versus student experiences related
  to advising (handouts)

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Referrals to Career Development Center

• Career Counseling1,500 students annually15 are
  referred from faculty and/or advisors or 225
  students
• Walk-in Career Advising2,000 students
  annually10 are referred from faculty and/or
  advisors or 200 students

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Student Perspective

• Do you know how to find/contact your advisor?
• Do you utilize advisors? If so, for what
• purpose(s)?
• What do you view as the strengths/weaknesses
• of advising?
• Do you have any suggestions for improving the
• quality and/or access to advising?

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Faculty/Staff Perspective

• Do you know how to find/contact advisors in your
  
• school/college?
• How do you utilize advisors?
• Do you ever refer students to the advising staff
  in
• your school/college? If so, under what
• circumstances?
• What do you view as the strengths/weaknesses of
• advising?
• Do you have any suggestions for improving the
• quality and/or access to advising?

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Additional Thoughts and Information

• www4.uwm.edu/acad_aff/access/