1. Building a College Themed Community for Business Freshmen at Cal Poly Pomona

2.  Pamela Adams, Academic Advisor CBA Student Success Center  Larisa Preiser-Houy, Ph.D., Associate Dean College of Business Administration  Keiry Ewing, Program Assistant University Housing Services

3.  5500 Total Undergraduate Students  60% Upper-Division Transfer  Centralized Advising ◦ 4 Professional Advisors ◦ Faculty focus on career-based advising

4.  Lack of Connection to First-Year Students ◦ Most CBA Work is Upper-Division ◦ First-Year Work is Supportive: Math, Economics, English  Not Taught by CBA Faculty  Math Remediation27.3%  English Remediation30.1% ◦ No Business-Themed FYE Course

5.  Focus on Residential Freshmen to Create a College-Themed Learning Community

6. The fundamental structural move in learning communities is to...release the powers of human association. Learning communities put people together and give them time and space—real time and space—to learn from each other. --Patrick Hill, The Rationale for Learning Communities (1985)

7.  A Strategically-Defined Cohort of Students  Robust, Collaborative Partnerships Between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs  Explicitly Designed Opportunities to Practice Integrative and Interdisciplinary Learning * The National Resource Center for Learning Communities

8.  2,400 Students  1,500 First Year Students  College Themed Communities (CTC) - Designed to Connect the Academic Experience with Residence Life  Living Learning Community Model (High Impact Practice) ◦ Increases Rates of Retention and Student Engagement  Students Participating in CTC Earn Higher GPAs

9.  University Housing Services Invites Students to Live in a College-Themed Community  Residential Advisors (RA’s) are from the College  Professional Advisors and Faculty Create College-Specific Programming

13.  40 students in CBA Themed Community  Average of 5 Events per Quarter

14.  Fall Welcome Event  Ask An Advisor  Etiquette Dinner  Business Club Social  Faculty Lectures ◦ How to Succeed in College and Start Your Career ◦ Starting Your Own Business ◦ Cybersecurity- Don’t Get Phished! ◦ Innovation and Creativity

15.  Extend Invitations to all Residential CBA Students (approximately 200)  Continue Quarterly Events  Create Dress for Success Event (partnered with Career Center) in Fall Quarter  Develop Faculty/Student Reading Group in Winter Quarter  Business Strategy Game in Winter Quarter  Company Visit in Winter  Etiquette Dinner in Spring

16.  Questions?