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SACS Program and Learning
Outcomes—Student Success Center
Mission:
The Student Success
Center (SSC) was established in summer 2005 primarily to serve
undergraduate students who are in General Health Studies (GHS), General Pre-Law
(GEPL), and General Curriculum (GECU). It also tries to help students who
urgently need academic advice and cannot for good reasons wait for appointments
or regular office hours with their departmental advisors. The SSC is especially
committed to helping students succeed in general education and basic major
requirements, choose appropriate degree programs and career paths, and solve
problems, which left unattended, would cause them to fail academically or drop
out of the University.
Program
Outcomes:
- Increase
collaboration between the SSC and departmental advisors.
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Assessment method: record of efforts.
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Assessment results: forthcoming
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Use of results: forthcoming
2. Increase collaboration between the SSC and
key service units at TTU: (a) Career Services, (b) Counseling Center, (c)
Disability Services.
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Assessment method: record of efforts.
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Assessment results: forthcoming
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Use of results: forthcoming
- Increase follow-up
contacts with “at-risk” freshmen. At risk would be defined as students whose
skills, knowledge, motivation, and/or academic ability are significantly
below those of the typical college student. Specifically targeted would be
students with gpa’s of below 2.0.
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Assessment method: total recorded contacts,
categorized by type (phone calls, email exchanges, individual meetings, etc.)
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Assessment results: forthcoming
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Use of results: forthcoming
- Increase retention
of full-time freshmen in General Curriculum, General Pre-law, and General
Health Studies.
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Assessment method: track cohorts of such
students from Fall to Spring of their freshman year and from Spring of the first
year to Fall of their second.
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Assessment results: forthcoming
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Use of results: forthcoming
Learning
Outcomes:
- An increasing
percentage of General Curriculum and General Pre-law students in the SSC
will decide during the first 60 hours of college coursework what degree
program and/or career to pursue.
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Assessment method: number of students on record as asserting such
choices during advising sessions within the first 60 hours of
coursework.
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Assessment results: forthcoming
- Use of results:
forthcoming
- An increasing
percentage of full-time SSC freshmen will complete their General Education
requirements in mathematics, science, and written communication during their
first year of coursework.
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Assessment method: number of such students
reaching this goal during the first 30-32 hours of coursework. This will be
completed when grades are put into the students’ folders.
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Assessment results: forthcoming
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Use of results: forthcoming
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