Task Force Description
Executive Sponsor(s): Provost and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management
Purpose: We have identified the need to re-think our approach to academic advising and seek to adopt a method of “intrusive advising” – a proactive approach to advising that better addresses the needs of our students and employs a number of checkpoints throughout the academic lives of our students to allow for meaningful and productive intervention and guidance that ensures student success. This task force will propose revisions to our current model of advising.
Related Strategic Plan Goal(s): Goal 1. Place Student Success at the Center
Established: July 2010
Time frame for group (or ongoing): 2010-2015
Membership criteria:
Number of Members: 12-15
Membership Type: Faculty, professional staff and students
Membership selection (initial): Nominations from the deans and the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management
Membership selection (ongoing): Open nominations in May
Leadership: Chair
Leadership selection: Appointed by executive sponsors
Role of the Chair: Convene and facilitate meetings of the task force. Chair will also ensure that nominations for new members are forwarded to the executive sponsors on an annual basis in May.
Responsibilities of members: Members should solicit input from colleagues as appropriate and be prepared to share information with colleagues as needed. Members should solicit input from their respective dean or vice chancellor early in the process and engage in an ongoing dialogue about task force activities.
Ex-officio members: Vice Chancellor and Provost, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Director of University College
Staffing: Self-staffed
Term of appointment: To ensure continuity, one and two -year terms will be employed.
Charge to the members:
The Task Force will review existing approaches to effective intensive advising related to student success (retention and graduation) including defined roles and responsibilities for advisors, evaluation of effective performance and professional development and recognition opportunities and recommend revisions to our existing model and campus approach.
Documents/Outcomes:
Report due _________________________
Stakeholders: Students, faculty
Frequency of meetings: monthly during the academic year
Reporting: Via the Web
Renewal date: May 2011 and then yearly