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A2S: MAP-Works What We Know About Our First-Year Students

A2S: MAP-Works What We Know About Our First-Year Students. Ericca Rolland, Director of Student Success Center Keri Duce, Student Success Program Coordinator Colin Daly, Assistant Director of First Year Center. Presentation Overview. A2S Presentation. MAP-Works General Information

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A2S: MAP-Works What We Know About Our First-Year Students

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  1. A2S: MAP-WorksWhat We Know About Our First-Year Students Ericca Rolland, Director of Student Success Center Keri Duce, Student Success Program Coordinator Colin Daly, Assistant Director of First Year Center

  2. Presentation Overview

  3. A2S Presentation • MAP-Works General Information • 2010-11 Results • Fall Transition Survey 2011 Results • Student Body Demographics • Academic Self-Efficacy • Peer Connections • Financial Means • Discussion Groups

  4. MAP-Works General Information

  5. What is MAP-Works? Making Achievement Possible (MAP-Works) enables effective early intervention with at-risk students, motivates, informs, and coordinates faculty/staff to intervene effectively and focuses students on college success behaviors. MAP-Works assigns a color to students participants based on a risk factor logarithm developed over 20 years at Ball State University AND utilizing enrollment and early warning data uploaded by UWM. First Year Center mentors and Resident Assistants follow up with students at-risk to refer them to resources and connect them to other students, programs and events. Advisors, faculty, staff, and housing professionals review the information and refer students directly to resources such as Financial Aid, the Career Development Center, Norris Health Center, Panther Academic Support and the Dean of Students Office.

  6. How does it work?

  7. 2010 - 2011 Previous Results

  8. MAP-Works 2010 – 2011 • 1681 first year students • Health Sciences, Social Welfare, Academic Opportunity Center, Honors, Curriculum & Instruction, Nursing, Southeast Asian-American Student Services, Student Support Services and Living Learning Community participants • Response Rates • Fall Transition: 83.4% (1400 responses) • Fall Check-up: 61.7% (1038 responses) • Spring Transition: 38.2% (641 responses) • Spring Check-up: 24.2% (365 responses)

  9. How did the number of at-risk students change over the Fall 2010 semester?

  10. How did the number of at-risk students change over the Spring 2011 semester?

  11. 2010-11 Fall-to-Spring Retention Based on Risk

  12. Fall 2010 to Fall 2011 Retention Based on Risk

  13. Lessons from 2010-11 • UWM’s academic focus: academic self-efficacy and advanced academic behaviors. • UWM’s social focus: peer connections. • The major concerns of our least satisfied respondents were: financial issues, wanting to transfer to a two year institution, or UWM was lower than their third choice. Some planned on dropping out, were not communicating with a parent or guardian, believed they’d get below a C average, or wanted a different social environment because they didn’t feel like they fit in.

  14. Fall Transition Survey 2011-12 Current results

  15. Fall 2011 At-Risk Students Fall Transition Survey 79.7% Response Rate Fall Check-up Survey As of 11/14/11 Green - 1710 (46%) Yellow - 1184 (31.8%) Red - (15.6%) Red x 2 - 192 (5.2%) Unknown: 53 (1.4%) Total Students - 3721 • Green – 1401 (37.9%) • Yellow – 1400 (37.9%) • Red – 655 (17.7%) • Red x2 – 209 (5.7%) • Non-respondents – 750 • Total Students – 3693

  16. UW-Milwaukee Priorities

  17. Critical Outreach to UWM Students

  18. Fall 2011 Student body profile

  19. First Year Student Information GenderRace • Male 1759 (47.6%) • Female 1937 (52.4%) • Other 0 (0%)

  20. First Year Student Information Highest Education Level Desired Plans After Graduation • Peace Corps – 11 • Travel/Go Abroad - 14

  21. First Year Student Information ACT Composite (3560) ACT Math Mean = 21.71 ACT Score 22-26 = 32.8% • Mean = 21.95 • ACT Score 20-24 = 42.1%

  22. First Year Student Information Mother’s Education Father’s Education 1st Generation students: 574 (19.5%)

  23. First Year Student Information Number of Dependents 715 (23.5%) Have 1 or more dependent

  24. First Year Student Information School/College

  25. First Year Student Information School/College

  26. Academic Major and Career Decisions • 76.4% (2239) students have decided a major • 70.4% (1577) of those have declared a major • 31.2% (893) students are stressed about selecting a major • Students who may not get accepted into their major would do the following: • 526 would reapply for next semester • 393 said they don’t know what they’d do • 208 would transfer • 111 would change majors but stay at UWM • 52% (1459) have selected a career path • 89.5% have not interacted with Career Development Center

  27. Transferring Somewhere Else? • 71.2% (1998) intend to return to UWM next year vs. 9.7% (272) who do not intend to return • 1724 have a high commitment to returning to UWM • 191 intend to transfer to another institution • 25 plan to take some time off • 2% (60) respondents said that they had plans to transfer out of UW-Milwaukee before attending

  28. Transferring Somewhere Else? • 54 respondents who intended to transfer shared more qualitative data: • 33 plan to transfer within UW System • Top 3: UW-Madison, UW-Whitewater & UW-Parkside • 21 plan to transfer out of the UW System • 10 to out-of-state institutions

  29. First Year Student Information Athletes (N = 128) Veterans (N = 26)

  30. First Year Student Information Student Likes (In Order) Student Dislikes (In Order) • Freedom • People • Campus Atmosphere • Classes • Learning • Added Responsibility • Residence Halls • Resources • Amount of homework • Classes • Time Management • Homesickness • People • Expensive/Costs • Teachers • Residence Halls

  31. Fall Transition Survey 2011 Academic self-efficacy

  32. First Year Student Information Course Struggles

  33. Most Difficult Courses Students expressed the most concerns keeping up with the following courses: • Bio Sci 202 (177) • English 101 (170) • Math 105 (129) • Psych 101 (113) • Math 95 (111) • English 102 (65) • Math 90 (63) • Econ 100 (48) • Sociology 101 (32) • Chem 105 (28) • Architecture 100 (23) • Philosophy 101 (21) • Art 106 (19) • Africology 100 (17) • Econ 103 (17) • Criminal Justice 110 (17) • Bus Adm 100 (16) • Math 231 (16) • Econ 104 (15) • Linguistics 100 (14) • Physics 107 (13) • Astronomy 103 (12) • Art 124 (12) • Bus Adm 230 (12)

  34. Course Hindrances • 219 students reported what hinders their coursework • Top issues: • Complications w/transportation: 52 • Balancing work and school: 26 • Family issues/constraints: 16 • Illness(es)/Health problems: 16 • Personal reasons: 8 • 947 students (33.4%) stated they are having difficulty in courses because they cannot understand their instructor

  35. Early Warning Data • 89 (2.4%) students have 2 or more Needs Improvement or Unsatisfactory • 528 (14.3%) students have at least 1 Needs Improvement or Unsatisfactory • 249 (6.74%) students have no Early Warning Information entered • 2,827 (76.5%) have all Satisfactory or Unable to Assess

  36. First Year Student Information Have you talked to your instructor about your course difficulties?

  37. First Year Student Information Have you turned in assigned homework?

  38. First Year Student Information Have you done the required readings?

  39. First Year Student Information Anticipated grade in your most difficult course?

  40. First Year Student Information Anticipated GPA for Fall 2011 9 out of 10 students anticipate all A/Bs but only 60% actually achieve GPA from Fall 2010: 2.62 GPA from Spring 2011: 2.19

  41. First Year Student Information To what degree do you do the following: • 47.6% spend 0-10 hours outside of class working on homework • 31.4% spend 11-20 hours outside of class working on homework • 20.9% spend 21+ hours outside of class working on homework • 29.2% (833) study on a regular schedule • 40.4% (134) feel they are making connections with faculty in their program

  42. First Year Student Information How many of your scheduled courses have you attended?

  43. Alcohol and Drug Information Have you performed poorly on a test or project because of your alcohol/drug use? Have you missed a class because of your alcohol/drug use? 73 students reported having their studying interrupted 5+ times because of others’ use of alcohol vs. 2268 who reported never being interrupted

  44. First Year Student Information Academic Self-Efficacy

  45. Fall Transition Survey 2011 Peer connections

  46. Student Involvement • 669 students (23.3%) said they had no intention of participating in a student organization vs. 517 (18%) who plan to be extremely involved • 1265 students (44.6%) do not intend to hold a leadership position vs. 206 (7.3%) who highly intend to hold a leadership position • 1455 (50%) students connect with those who share common interests vs. 408 (14.1%) said they hardly connect at all

  47. Student Involvement • High Involvement Intention students: • Attend student functions (794) • Volunteer (507) • Playing Intramurals (400) • 1341 (47.4%) students have interacted with their FYC mentor at least once

  48. On-Campus Living • 2106 (71.5%) respondents live on campus • 354 (17.9%) who have interacted more than 10 times vs. 162 (8.2%) residents have not interacted with their RA

  49. First Year Student Information Homesickness - Separation

  50. First Year Student Information How many times have you communicated with your parent/guardian in the last 7 days?

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