1. Engaging Faculty Engages Students: Encouraging Faculty Participation in Pathways

2. Student Engagement
Student engagement is important in and out of the classroom
Engaged students are more likely to remain in college and complete their education
Engaged students are
Attracted to their work
Academically and socially connected
Persist despite challenges
Earn higher grades

3. Faculty Engagement
Students are more likely to be engaged when faculty are engaged
Faculty must create learning opportunities that allow students to connect socially and academically
Faculty engagement can be measured by participation in student-centered events

4. Faculty Engagement Obstacles to faculty engagement (participation)
It may be difficult to see the importance of certain activities and events
There may be fear that the initiative is the ‘flavor of the month’
There may be fear that the time commitment is too great
Some faculty lack interest in events and activities

5. Goals of the Academic Pathways
Success
Retention
Completion

6. Components of the Pathways Initiative
Orientation
Structured Advising
Career Advising
Course-tracks
Activities

7. Components of the Pathways Initiative
Faculty and staff play an important role in supporting the Pathways:
Incorporating Pathway activities into syllabi
Developing activities
Incorporating Pathways career skills into coursework
Including Pathways goals - career and transfer advice and advising into your courses
Knowing WHO to send students to with questions about the Pathways
Attending events with classes to encourage participation and advance the importance of the Pathways

8. Components of the Pathways Initiative: Activities
Benefits:
Students meet faculty and staff
Students network with other students to create a cohort atmosphere
Students network with alumni and learn from their experiences
Students learn about major and program options
Students explore career possibilities

9. Components of the Pathways Initiative: Activities
Each Pathway takes part in planning activities throughout the semester
Activities planned by the Pathways Coordinators
Faculty must see how the activity benefits student success
Communication between coordinators and faculty must be frequent and delivered in multiple formats (individual outreach)
Student attendance at events is better when encouraged by faculty
Activities planned by faculty
Faculty see the benefit of these activities, they planned them
Student attendance increases when events are built around the existing curriculum

10. Components of the Pathways Initiative: Activities
Spring 2017 Events
Semester Opening Kick-Off Events
Immigration Speaker Series
Film Festival
Invited Lecture: Jane Elliott
Institute for Social and Economic Justice
Ethics Day

11. High Impact Practices (HIPs)
Common learning experiences that focus on student engagement and success
Activities:
require effort
help students build substantive relationships with peers and faculty
help students engage across differences
provide meaningful feedback
help students apply learning in new situations
provide opportunity for reflection

12. High Impact Practices (HIPs)
HIPs embed in all sections of highly enrolled courses
Faculty driven initiative - committees develop projects and plan for implementation
HLTH 101 (Introduction to Health) HIP
PSYC 101 (Introduction to Psychology) HIP

13. General Education Reform
Challenges:
Competition among disciplines for enrollment
Faculty lobby for their courses as general education program requirements
No agreement on what the goals of general education are and how to achieve them
Solutions:
Invest faculty in decision making process by making them full partners from the start
Faculty based committees to develop criteria for course selection for inclusion in the general education curriculum and to develop course proposals
Empower faculty through shared governance as the ultimate decision makers

14. When Trying to Motivate Faculty Consider…
Value: make sure faculty understand how the assignment, activity benefits their students
Autonomy: when possible, make activities faculty-driven
Flexibility: plan activities, or support campus organizations planned activities that appeal to students/faculty in a wide range of disciplines
Feedback: offer ample opportunity for feedback

15. Group Discussion
What are some problems you have experienced trying to encourage faculty engagement in participating and planning of extra and co-curricular activities?
What are some strategies that you have implemented that have worked to encourage faculty in participating in/planning extra and co-curricular activities?