Project Components

Advising Component

(Component Leaders and Key Participants: Rebecca Courington, Bill Friedman, David Noffs)

• Explores potential of new models for faculty advising, including mandatory advising days, student cohorts, peer mentoring, and standard advising syllabi
• Develops new advising tools within OASIS
• Systematizes training of faculty regarding the technological and substantive aspects of advising
• Facilitates broader changes in advising including the analysis of overall "delivery systems" of advising and implementation of enhanced plan
• Creates on-line tools to inform freshman and transfer students about the College's resources for students

• Phases in over the next 3 years a required, for-credit first-year seminar experience for students
• Creates a cohort of faculty to teach the seminar and offers them enhanced faculty development and collaborative opportunities that will enrich the seminar experience for students and faculty members and enrich faculty teaching in other subject areas
• Provides supplementary funding to first-year seminar to implement cutting edge technologies and creative teaching approaches

• Discerns best practices from model campuses to explore delivery models of learning resources (centralized vs. decentralized)
• Implements a process to identify new and continuing high-risk students and provide regular consultation for strategic programming
• Assists with tracking and assessing progress of high-risk students
• Convenes a taskforce to guide changes regarding Columbia College's approach to learning resources
•  Offers suggestions for a structured comprehensive tutoring program including mandatory tutor training