Advising in the First Year and Beyond; Developing Relationships that Last Presenters: Dr. Deb Toomey & Allison Hoffmann School of Business – Northwest Missouri State University Session #: 033 October 5, 2015

About Us… Mission Statement: Located approximately 1 ½ hour from Kansas City, 2 hours from Omaha, NE, 2 hours from Des Moines, IA Approximately 7,000 students State-assisted, regional four-year university Top majors in terms of enrollment: Education Business Agriculture Textbooks and laptop included with tuition Blended decentralized and centralized advising structure currently Advisement Office –assists deciding students, freshman biology, business, and psychology students Missouri is a performance-funding state Mission Statement: Northwest Missouri State University focuses on student success – every student, every day

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Introductions and History of Project 10+ years worth of data Recent changes to our first year seminar course where instructors were no longer academic advisors for students in their section Project provided the opportunity to collect data from previous seminar course/advising model and compare to the new model Felt there was a strong connection between first year seminar grade and its impact on persistence, graduation, etc. Provided opportunity to look at first term GPA and graduation

Scenario: You have a limited amount of time to meet with students on advising, on each of these pairs, pick which one you will meet with if required to make a choice and your goal was increase graduation rates? First generation student OR a student with an Admissions Index of 75

*Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents* Who is in Session attendees participated in a survey to answer the scenario below: *Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents*

Scenario: You have a limited amount of time to meet with students on advising, on each of these pairs, pick which one you will meet with if required to make a choice and your goal was increase graduation rates? A first semester student athlete OR a first semester male?

*Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents* Who is in Session attendees participated in a survey to answer the scenario below: *Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents*

Scenario: You have a limited amount of time to meet with students on advising, on each of these pairs, pick which one you will meet with if required to make a choice and your goal was increase graduation rates? A student with a 2.40 HS GPA OR a student with a 17 ACT composite?

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Number of Terms Enrolled Influential Factors Graduation Number of Terms Enrolled ACT Composite HS GPA Freshman Seminar Grade Academic Status Conditional Admit Gender Athletic Status First Generation Admissions Index Deficiency Grade in FS GPA First Term

Total of 290 student athletes vs. 2061 non-athletes

Questions to ponder… What surprised you about that data? How can this data help your institution? What three data elements do you want to investigate at your institution? If you had your institution’s data, how might your advising change?

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