A team formed between Advising, Orientation, and Career Services that will continue to work with the undecided student population. We created a plan to intervene early with undecided students to connect them with resources to help them make a purposeful choice. The plan begins at orientation with a breakout session designed to get undecided students thinking about making a purposeful choice and continues once the semester begins with strategic talking points during advising appointments.
Evaluation Plan and measures: · Track the students who attend the Undecided sessions and follow up through Career Services · Have them explore Steppingblocks and sign up for Handshake (can track through Handshake) · Decrease the percentage of students in a general studies pathway from fall to fall.
KPIs: · Meet with all undecided students at NSO. · Target existing undecided students with a formulated message in the required advising appointment.
Baseline measure (for each KPI): ·
- Undecided student session at orientation: Hold a session for each orientation.
- Advising Appointment objectives for Undecided Students: All first time GHC students have a required advising appointment in their first semester.
Goal or targets (for each KPI):
- Undecided session at orientation objectives: · Discuss time to graduation and cost savings · Discuss and explain CPOS to students · Identify ways Advising and Career Services can help students with pathway selection
- Advising Appointment objectives for Undecided Students: · Explain purposeful choice to students · Plan 2 resources for students to use to help in pathway selection · Discuss and explain time to graduation and cost saving importance
Time period/duration Summer, Fall and Spring
Orientation: There was a special breakout session for Undecided students during orientation in which Advising and Career Services discussed with students the importance of choosing a major and walked students through Steppingblocks, an online tool to aid students in deciding career paths based on their majors and pathways.
Advising: Undecided students who met with an advisor during the appointment window in the fall were given resources to explore pathway selection. Undecided students who attended drop-in advising once registration opened were also encouraged to make a plan for deciding on a pathway.
Undecided session at orientation objectives: · Discuss time to graduation and cost savings · Discuss and explain CPOS to students · Identify ways Advising and Career Services can help students with pathway selection
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