Student Success

1. Student Success Fall 2008 Convocation Student Success – Not just our name but our mission.

2. Student Success – Not just our name but our mission. WELCOME!

3. Student Success – Not just our name but our mission. 30,102! 26,999! 4,483! Congratulations on all of these record enrollments!

4. Thanks to EVERYONE for helping KU set new enrollment records! • Special KUdos to the Office of Admissions and Scholarships! • It took each of our departments and everyone across the University to make this happen! • Student Success is making a positive difference at KU! • THANK YOU!

5. Special Notes to Share • Editorial from Provost Lariviere (9/27/08): • In addition to being very proud of the affirmation of the quality of KU that lies in the record numbers of great KU students, in addition to the athletic championships, the debate championships, and the research distinction of KU, it is only right that we celebrate the champions of the KU staff who make KU work like a finely tuned machine. • Email from Chancellor Hemenway (9/30/08) • From: Hemenway, Robert E To: Roney, Marlesa AMarlesa, you and your people deserve the praise… • From: Roney, Marlesa A Chancellor -       • What a wonderful headline in today’s Journal World!  Please know how very much it means to all of us to know that you recognize this hard work.  We sincerely appreciate your support.  And, yes, we’re already working hard for the future! • Rock Chalk! • Marlesa

6. Student Success – Not just our name but our mission. Our Agenda Today • General updates • 2007-08 Priorities • Learning Commons Project • Student Conduct Review Team • Facilities Updates • Welcome to New Employees! • Awards and Recognitions • Years of Service Pins • Special Presentation of the Chancellor’s Writing Prize

7. Student Success Student Success – Not just our name but our mission. • KU’s comprehensive, student-centered, student services organization • 20 units, with over 850 regular employees and 1,500 student employees • A group of talented professionals who provide programs and services that enable KU students to be successful • Student Success – it’s all of us!

8. Students are at the Center of our Organization Every Student Their success is our mission.

9. What’s New at KU! • Budget information • Planning for 2% cut this year, up to 7% for 2009-2010 • No final news until spring, but our plans are all in place • Initiative 2015 (see the OIRP website for reports) • Teaching and Learning; Discovery and Innovation; Working for Kansas • Jayhawk Boulevard Update • Completed by November • …Phase 2 in 2009 ( Sunflower Drive and Mississippi) • Pharmacy Building (West Campus) • Construction begins in 2009 • Legislative initiatives are in the planning stages • Funding, admissions requirements, etc.

10. What’s New in Student Success! • Five-Year Review Feedback • Review of organizational structure and meetings • No changes in structure • Revamped Leadership meetings and opportunities for small group initiatives, standing task forces, etc. • Thank you for your input and assistance! • Review of WoWSS • Continue publication • Add forum/blog type of option

11. What’s New in Student Success! • Student Success Diversity Council • Collaborative focus on multicultural students, across Student Success and the University • Robert Page, Convener • New Student Success Fundraising website • KUdos to Anne Flaherty and Sandra Reed • Opportunity to highlight special projects and ongoing needs: http://www.vpss.ku.edu/Giving/types.shtml • Fully operational SOON!

12. What’s New in Student Success! • One very special, Special Project The Ann Eversole Rock Chalk Revue Fund!

13. Update on Student Success Priorities • Alcohol • Graduation Milestones • Transfer Students • Successful Students

14. Alcohol Priority • Diana Robertson and Carol Seager, Co-Leaders • Recent statistics from ACHA survey

15. 30 DAY USE ~ Alcohol Within the last 30 days, on how many days did you use…alcohol?

16. DRINKING & DRIVING Within the last 30 days, did you… YES • …drive after drinking any alcohol at all? • KU 2003 ~ 44% • KU 2006 ~ 47% • Nat’l 2006 ~ 23% • …drive after drinking 5 or more drinks? • KU 2003 ~ 11% • KU 2006 ~ 18% • Nat’l 2006 ~ 4% YES

17. BINGE DRINKING Think back over the last 2 weeks. How many times, if any, have you had five or more alcoholic drinks at a sitting?

18. CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL USE If you drink alcohol, within the last school year, have you experienced any of the following as a consequence of your drinking?

19. Alcohol Priority • Priority Group Recommendations: • Prevention • Environmental Change • Health Protection and Intervention • Next Steps

20. Graduation Milestones Priority • Diann Burright and Rueben Perez, Co-Leaders • Pathways to Graduation – programs, practices, and polices to mark milestones and support student retention and graduation • Class Connections – distinctive programs for each class level, including liaison, class mission, and website • Implementation focus: • Continue a graduation milestones group • Implement use of Your Jayhawk Journey, a year-by-year milestones list through development of interactive website and enhance the list as companion to Tuition Compact • Develop collaborative relationship with Board of Class Officers to consider liaisons/advisors for each class, class missions, service projects, and web presence

21. Transfer Students Priority • Lee Furbeck, Leader • Transfer students represent a desirable population. They generally possess the intelligence, drive, perseverance, and focus to be successful students • Attempts to develop relationships with community colleges with the exception Johnson County Community College and Kansas city Community College have been sporadic and uncoordinated • With the exception of Transfer Student Orientation, there are no population-specific services, organizations, events, or support services, once these students reach campus. • We can begin to address these issues with more regularly scheduled visits to in-state Community Colleges, more clearly defined and honored articulation agreements with these institutions, and the hiring of a Transfer Programs Coordinator to manage these and other activities.

22. Successful Students Priority • Tammara Durham, Leader • Respondents attributed their academic success to hard work • They report the most commonly used campus resource was the library • Most respondents reported that interaction with faculty tended to occur when help with an assignment was needed. • Most respondents used the Student Recreation Fitness Center, specifically intramural sports activities, as their preferred way to “make friends”.

23. Learning Commons Initiative • Innovative partnership between Information Services (KU Libraries and Information Technology) and Student Success • Integration of services and resources in a flexible environment to support student learningon third and fourth floors of Anschutz Library • Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle and David Mucci represent Student Success on the Executive Team • Input from Student Success Space Group, including: • Academic Achievement and Access Center • KU Info • KU Writing Center • University Advising Center • University Career Center

24. Learning Commons Initiative Next Steps • Needs assessment of students, staff, and faculty this fall • Will work collaboratively in 2008-09 to define: • Services and resources • Physical space • Staffing needs • Construction will begin in 2009!

25. Student Conduct Review Team • Purpose: • Promote the early recognition and reporting of troubling student behavior • Educate of faculty and staff to seek consultation regarding such students • Provide holistic assessment of student behavior • Provide recommended course of action • Members: Frank DeSalvo (chair), Schuyler Bailey, Michael Lynch Maestas, Diana Robertson, Andrew Shoemaker, and Jane Tuttle • Contact is made by calling the Office of VPSS (864—4060) , Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. • Two faculty/staff training sessions (last week in October and the last week in November) are forthcoming.

26. Facilities Updates • Krehbiel Scholarship Hall Opening and Dedication • Expansion of Hilltop Child Development Center • Pulse at the Burge Union • Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center • Expansion completed in November • Naming dedication ceremony is October 24 at 3:30 • Response to the new Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center has been phenomenal!

27. Welcome New Student Success Employees!

28. Congratulations! • Shanda Hurla - Kansas Academic Advising Network Supportive Advisor Award • Jody Johnson - UAC Advisor of the Year and Kansas Academic Advising Network Advising Publication Award • Frances Lyons - Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars • Emily Malin - Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Honorary Member of Golden Key National Honor Society • Robin Merritt -UAC Advisor of the Year • Estella McCollum –one of 21 up-and-comers in the college bookstore field

29. More Congratulations! • Impromptu Café - recognized by the National Association of Campus and University Food Services, and received the Loyal E. Horton Dining Award Bronze Medal. • Ruth Stoner - NASPA IV-West Distinguished Service Award 2008 • Rachel Glover - NASPA IV-West Rising Star Award 2008 • Lauren Jones - Rising Star, NASPA IV-West • Mandy Zweifel-Hughes - NASPA IV-West Young Professional Rising Star Award • Santos Nunez Galicia - NASPA IV-West Mid Level Regional Professional of the Year award

30. KU Women of Distinction Calendar 2008 • Laura Bauer formerly of the Student Involvement and Leadership Center • Mary Chappell, KU Recreation Services • Pamela Scott, Office of Multicultural Affairs • Carol Seager, Student Health Services

31. CLASS* Award Nominees • Linda Dixon, AAAC • Tammara Durham, UAC • Juan Izaguirre Pena, OMA • Sheryl Adelman Kimmel, UAC • Lisa Pinamonti Kress, OAS • Pamela Scott, OMA • Jennifer Wamelink, DSH *Citation for Leadership and Achievement in Student Services

32. CLASS Award Recipient Jennifer Wamelink, Department of Student Housing

33. Employees of the Month! • Michael Sinclair, KU Recreation Services, USS, 9/2007 Kathly Mason, University Advising Center, UPS, 9/2007 • Juan Izaguirre Pena, SILC/OMA, UPS, 10, 2007 • Leah Luckeroth, Student Health Services, UPS, 12/2008 • Kenneth Blackwell, KU Memorial Unions, USS, 2/2008 • Brenda Maigaard, OSFA, UPS, 2/2008 • Robin Kidney, KU Memorial Unions, USS, 4/2008

34. KU Employee of the Year!! Dr. Leah Luckeroth, Student Health Services, Unclassified Employee of the Year for 2008!!!

35. State of KansasYears of Service Recognition

36. Lisa Beck, Office of Admissions and Scholarships Robert Brown, Student Health Services Jim Carroll, KU Memorial Unions Tammara Durham, University Advising Center Erin Flessing, Office of the University Registrar Andrea Gore, Student Health Services Joan Hahn, Office of the University Registrar Winona Hansen, Student Health Services Gregory Herries, Department of Student Housing Dan Matthews, Student Health Services Ronda Morgison, Office of the University Registrar Wade Morrow, Department of Student Housing Kathryn Orth, KU Memorial Unions Mark Pickerel, Student Information Systems Aaron Quisenberry, Student Involvement and Leadership Center Jeanette Ray, Department of Student Housing Mary Ann Rasnak, Academic Achievement and Access Center Keith Visocsky, Department of Student Housing Jennifer Wamelink, Department of Student Housing Derrick Zerngast, KU Memorial Unions 10 Years of Service Recognition

37. 20 Years of Service Recognition • Rhonda Black, Student Health Services • William Brandenberger, Student Health Services • Talaine Coleman-Martin, Student Health Services • Paula Crouse, Department of Student Housing • Joe Edmonds, Department of Student Housing • Todd Gleason, Department of Student Housing • Jim Hartzell, Department of Student Housing • Michele Kessler, Legal Services for Students • Anne Kratz, Student Information Systems • Laura Morrow, Department of Student Housing • Jeannie Russell, Department of Student Housing • Kim Schwartz, Student Health Services • Roy Steadham, Department of Student Housing • Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, Office of the Vice Provost for Student Success • Dennis Williams, Department of Student Housing

38. 30 Years of Service Recognition!! • Pat Bame, Office of Student Financial Aid • Nancy Brune, Student Information Systems

39. Presentation of the Inaugural Chancellor’s Writing Prize!!

40. Student Success…because every student matters!