Refining/Maintaining

The Office of Career Services supports the following initiatives through Student Access and Success by targeting all students, specifically underrepresented students, that will benefit from informed career planning efforts, using resources such as Focus 2 Career, that can be institutionalized over the life of the grant. All students (and faculty), specifically underrepresented students, will gain access to employer and career resources using the Handshake system and other virtual networks within the Office of Career Services.

The Campus-Wide Advising Model activity is designed to effectively communicate to students the requirements to earn a degree. Implementing this campus-wide model will position Professional Advisors (PA) as the first point of contact for admitted students who are interested in any program at ASU. PA understanding of the programs allows them to clearly, succinctly, and thoroughly inform students of course overviews, petitioning deadlines, prerequisite courses, GPA minimums, and if applicable clinicals, internships, and program specific standardized exams.

Improve student onboarding through pre-collegiate modules and proactive connections between incoming students, meta-majors and co-curricular opportunities through Panther Connect program

Support 1^st-year students who did not complete core course to retake with additional academic supports 

Peer Mentor Program: students (mentees) meet 1:1, weekly, with upperclassmen (Mentors) through this student success program. Additionally, students are invited to attend program-facilitated events related to program pillars (self-efficacy; academic success; cultural competence).

Learning support program

Placing students that fall below a 2.0 institutional GPA on academic intervention. Required enrollment into GSU 1000 course and one-on-one coaching.

Over the past year, the Office of First and Second Year Experience in collaboration with the First and Second Year Advisory Team, Office of Career and Professional Development, and the Office of Global Engagement redesigned course content for CORE 2000 to move the course to a co-requisite model for Core courses to better focus on elements of Inform, Discern, & Affirm, reflections on academic mindset, challenges to perseverance, and highlight the importance of transitions through college (rather than just into college—i.e., meaningful choices in majors, minors, co-curricular engagements,

Provide more data and direction to department chairs and deans regarding student course needs.

Developing internal RPA tools across divisions to streamline the creation of Academic Improvement Plans (AIPs) by the Academic Success Center for students on Academic Intervention (AI); streamline the creation of documents (GPA calculation forms and plans) required for Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) Appeals in the Office of Financial Aid.