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I-64 Not Just the First But All Student Transitions: One Institution’s Story

I-64 Not Just the First But All Student Transitions: One Institution’s Story. Session I-64 p.32 Leon Book Director Student Transitions & First-Year Experience 12th Annual Students in Transition Conference Costa Mesa, CA November 2005. Southeast Missouri State University Cape Girardeau.

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I-64 Not Just the First But All Student Transitions: One Institution’s Story

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  1. I-64 Not Just the First But All Student Transitions: One Institution’s Story Session I-64 p.32 Leon Book Director Student Transitions & First-Year Experience 12th Annual Students in Transition Conference Costa Mesa, CA November 2005 Southeast Missouri State University Cape Girardeau Experience Southeast… Experience Success Personal Professional Practical

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  5. Transition Initiative Components Academic PlanningDeclaration of Major: Department Welcome  First Upper-Division Course in Major: MentoringDepartmental Exit Requirements (e.g., portfolios) Commencement Experiential Learning: Internship/Practicum Career Planning  Orientation (First STEP) First-Year Experience

  6. Transitions? Into College Into a Major Into a Profession

  7. Transitions! Get in Get connected Get settled Get through Get out Get on with their lives

  8. Transitions!! • New daily/weekly schedule (new lifestyle, really) • Investigating career options within a major • Making new friends and losing old ones • Researching/choosing study abroad opportunities • Joining discipline-specific organizations • Maintaining GPAs at critical levels • Financial aid issues, especially re/loss of scholarships • Choosing a minor • Researching/choosing graduate school vs. job market • Planning for MFAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, etc. • Dealing with first “low” grades in their lives! • Choosing between apartment living vs. residence hall

  9. More Transitions!! • Dealing with the likelihood of post-graduation debt • College loans • Car, property, credit card? • Connecting vocation choices with life values (e.g., religion, politics) • Discovering need for tolerance for ambiguity • Mentoring new students in majors and/or support programs • Meeting life partners • Or not! TransitionsDirectory-1.doc

  10. The Promise (“The Three P’s”) • Personalattention • Professionaleducation • Practicalreal-world experience

  11. Southeast’s “University Studies” Program Structure

  12. The Nine University Studies Objectives Students will demonstrate … • the ability to locate and gather information. • capabilities for critical thinking, reasoning and  analyzing. • effective communication skills. • an understanding of human experiences and the ability to relate them to the present. • an understanding of various cultures and their interrelationships.

  13. The Nine University Studies Objectives Students will demonstrate … • the ability to integrate the breadth and diversity of knowledge and experience. • the ability to make informed, intelligent value decisions. • the ability to make informed, sensitive aesthetic responses. • the ability to function responsibly in one's natural, social and political environment.

  14. Major Technical expertise Specialized knowledge Get that first job University Studies Life skills Keep that job and advance Be the kind of person others want to work with or for! Parallel Processes: Depth & Breadth

  15. Career Proficiency Checks • Required of entering students Fall 2005 • NoCost to students--only time and energy • Connect academic planning and career planning

  16. Career Paths: Confirmation/HelpCL001 • 0.0 credit 1st or 2nd semester • Students complete FOCUS during UI100 as part of their grade in the course. • Co-requisite: UI100

  17. Career Paths: Confirmation/HelpCL002 • 0.0 credit 2nd/3rd/4th semesters • Students discuss FOCUS results with career counselors. • Students start their profiles on GreatHires.org • Prerequisite: CL001.

  18. Career Paths: Confirmation/HelpCL003 • 0.0 credit 4th/5th/6th semesters • Students draft a resume and a cover letter. • directed to an actual person that might offer internship, practicum, part-time and/or summer job. • Students update their profiles on GreatHires.org • Students control who has access to their information and when!! • Prerequisite: CL002.

  19. Leads to…CL004 • 0.0 credit 7th/8th semesters • Students update/complete their profiles on GreatHires.org. • Students submit final resumes. • Students complete mock interviews as needed.

  20. How? A Partnership with Division of Workforce Development (DWD) • DWD employees working on Southeast campus: • 4 Developmental career counselors working alongside academic advisors • Located in strategic locations across campus • Other DWD personnel in Missouri Career Centers for placement career counseling

  21. How? A Partnership with Division of Workforce Development (DWD) • Southeast employees • Career professionals • Academic advising coordinators in colleges and schools • Faculty advisors/ mentors • Students get the help they need when they need it but… • Only the help they need!

  22. Group Work: • 3 advantages to such a partnership • 3 challenges in such a partnership

  23. ADVANTAGES • Table-Advantages.doc

  24. CHALLENGES • Table-Challenges.doc

  25. Complications/Issues • Transfer students • e.g., RN to BSN nursing students • Returning students • Guidelines Matrix • Regional campuses • Online degree programs • Administrative structure • Organizational Chart Table-Challenges.doc

  26. Where Institutions Can Find Assistance: • National Resource Center on the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (NRC) • http://www.sc.edu/fye • Policy Center on the First Year of College (PCFYC) • http://www.brevard.edu/fyc • National Orientation Directors Association (NODA) • http://www.nodaweb.org • Association of Deans and Directors of University Colleges and Undergraduate Studies (AD&D) • http://www.bsu.edu/web/adandd • Association for General & Liberal Studies (AGLS) • http://www.bsu.edu/web/agls • Council on the Administration of General and Liberal Studies (CAGLS) • http://cstl.semo.edu/cagls • American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) • http://www.aacu.edu.org • Network for Academic Renewal Conferences • http://www.aacu.org/meetings • American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) • http://www.aahe.org

  27. Contact me! Leon Book, Director Student Transitions & First-Year Experience Southeast Missouri State University Mail Stop 4300 Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 573-651-2688 e-mail: lbook@semo.edu

  28. Please complete session evaluation! • Session #I-64, p.32 • Session Leader: Leon Book • Session Title Summary: • “All Student Transitions”

  29. Thanks for Joining Me! --Leon Experience Southeast… Experience Success Personal, Professional, Practical

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