If You MAP Academic Success, They Will Follow Helping students navigate and stay on course to reach their educational goals… League for Innovation in the Community College Presentation Spring 2012 Rep Meeting March 21, 2012

Sinclair’s MAP Maker My Academic Plan (MAP) Concept and design of MAP result of SCC’s conversion to semesters Pledge to students: – Conversion to semesters would not increase cost of their education or lengthen the time needed to complete degree, as long as student has MAP created and follows MAP.

Academic Advising and Student Scheduling What courses do I need? When are my courses offered? How do I plan it all?? Can you give me that list of courses Again? Quarters to semesters??? Why isn’t this easy? What pre-requisites? What's a degree audit? How will I remember all of this? Last time they told me….

Questions abound… How do we know what students need to do? How do students know what they need to do? How do we know the students have done what we told them to do? Will the students remember to do what we advised? How can we help students make the right decisions without being too intrusive? How do we ensure, that as an institution, we offer the courses during the terms we told students to take them?

What can we do about it? Create a clear individual Academic path for each student (tailored to them) Be Prescriptive (but not stringent) Remind the student, and everyone who works with the student, what that path is at every opportunity Take action if they stray from the path “Default” path should lead to success with out having to “Do Options”

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Thank You! Presenter: Phyllis Salter Director, Academic Advising