Prioritize Student Success
Complementing transformative learning is ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ’s unwavering commitment to student success. ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ will dedicate its time, ideas and resources to provide the highest level of quality in career and graduate school preparation, life preparation, and degree completion.
- Identify barriers to students’ progression and develop university-wide systems that result in retention and graduation rates that are in the top one-third of our institutional type
- Create innovative, flexible, and/or condensed pathways to and throughout a Shenandoah education
- Develop and deliver clear, consistent recruitment messaging about SU that allows recruited students to make good choices & that prepares students to embrace the unique ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ environment
- Use historic data to identify characteristics of successful SU graduates
- Use this profile to help shape admissions strategies that set students up
for success
- Develop a comprehensive Career Center to increase the breadth and scope of career development services and tools used by students and alumni in all of ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ’s programs of study.
- Create a Student Success Center to facilitate accessibility to multiple collegiate support services for students and alumni similar to those of our aspirant institutions
- Implement protocol that involves Career Services working with academic departments to ensure that students maximize the career value from practicum/internship/clinical experiences that are imbedded in the curriculum.
- Actively promote and prepare students to apply for graduate school, residencies, national-level scholarships and post-graduate service opportunities.
- Identify At-Risk populations and individual students of concern at ËÄ»¢Ó°ÊÓ and develop interventions that improve their chances of success.
- Develop comprehensive university-wide practices for responding to individual students of concern
- Provide more aggressive presence of support services for cohort-based students, specifically for counseling & learning resources
- Expand coaching program to work with targeted high-risk populations as identified in recent research. Implement use of peer coaching program(s), as appropriate
- Develop university-wide practices for identifying, recognizing and celebrating students’ achievements in academic, out-of-class, and career-related pursuits.
- Develop an interdepartmental, systematic approach to gathering, packaging and publishing ‘student stories’ through a variety of electronic & print media
- Increase use of alumni’ career success stories to assist with recruitment as well as retention initiatives
- Enhance visibility of high-achieving students through advising, increased programming, and involvement of honor societies such as ALD, ODK and support for discipline-related honors organizations
- Aggressively employ a variety of methods to increase community awareness of student and alumni achievements
- Establish a winning tradition in the ODAC, including competitive play at the tournament level along with high academic standards for Hornet athletics