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The First-Year Experience Team
Strategic Objective, Strategy, and Outcomes

 
Strategic Objectives
  • To enable all employees to provide accurate information to students on advising, registration, and other student services.

  • To increase the first semester completion rate of new students.

  • To increase the number of first semester students who are in good academic standing after their first semester.

  • To increase the return rate (first to second semester) of new students.

  • To increase the success rate of students. (Success is defined as completing the educational goal as stated by the student. While this is an objective of the FYE Program, it will be more difficult to measure than the others because many other factors beyond the FYE Program will have taken place. Therefore, this objective might be better suited as an umbrella for all teams.)

  • To contribute towards the personal, emotional, and social development of new students.
Strategies
  • MAP and IMAP Advising Sessions
    • Continue to offer sessions for new students which are held after the assessment/placement tests. Students receive their scores and learn how they are used to select courses. Students learn how to register and use MyMC.

  • Individual Advising and Counseling
    • Continue to provide individualized advising sessions to select courses, understand transfer requirements, and develop an educational goal. Counseling sessions may address career counseling and personal counseling.

  • First Year Experience Course
    • During AY 2006-07, offer a FYE course that helps students acquire college success skills. Delivery vehicles for FYE objectives may be DS 107, DS 104, Bridge, or other courses. “Other course” might be a discipline based introductory course that integrates FYE objectives into the course content.

  • Individualized Education Plan
    • Any course participating as a FYE course will help students develop an Individualized Education Plan. The ed.plan is a dynamic road map that takes into consideration the students’ individual career and educational goals, support services that are anticipated, and builds in check-points for review. The education plan is also a key element in individual advising/counseling.

  • New Student Orientation (Student Life)
    • Continue to offer orientation. Usually held just before classes begin, it includes a tour of the campus, expectations of the first week of classes, description of resources and support services, and an opportunity to meet counselors, faculty, staff and peers.

  • FYE Follow-up Activities

    • Select and market FYE follow-up activities, which could include mentoring, leadership training, SGA, clubs, counselor contact, service learning, seminars and workshops. Another follow-up activity might be a DS course that more fully meets a student's individual need, such as DS 103 (career education) or DS 102 (study skills).

General Outcomes
  1. Students will have and use an individualized education goal and plan.
  2. Students will behave in a manner consistent with the Student Code of Conduct.
  3. Students will feel connected to the college.
  4. Students will feel motivated (to persist and succeed).
  5. Students will be self-directed learners.
  6. New students will complete the first semester.
  7. New students will be in good academic standing after their first semester.
  8. New students will return for a second semester.
  9. Employees will be able to provide accurate information to students on advising, registration, and other student services.
Specific Outcomes

More specific outcomes are a part of the various components of the FYE program. They will be recorded in other documents. Examples of this level of outcomes would be:
  • MAP/IMAP
    • Registration in appropriate courses; knowledge of support services, etc.

  • FYE Course
    • Utilization of effective time management skills; knowledge of learning styles, etc.

  • New Student Orientation (Student Life)
    • Meet other new students; meet counselors, staff and faculty; knowledge of where to find key services on the campus.

  • Follow-up Activities
    • Opportunity for student leadership, knowledge of the value of cultural diversity, etc.
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