Mission and Goals
The Title V Academic Advising Program is committed to guiding liberal arts students in the development of educational and career goals.
Consistent with the mission of the College and of the University to preserve academic excellence and extend higher educational opportunities to a diversified urban population, Title V seeks to provide liberal arts students with academic advisement that will improve success and retention rates.
The program will use a developmental advisement model that will involve
the collaboration of trained faculty members from the liberal arts academic
departments, professionals from the Academic Advisement and Transfer Center,
and the use of a new and comprehensive student database.
The integration of these elements will facilitate the enhancement of
teaching and learning, establish college-wide advisement standards, and
empower liberal arts students in becoming independent decision-makers
regarding the transfer-process to four-year colleges as well as individual
educational and career goals.
Goals
Consistent with its stated mission, Title V supports the following goals:
- To develop and implement a developmental academic advisement model;
- To provide intensive and on-going training to liberal arts faculty and staff in order to establish advisement competencies that meet the needs of liberal arts students and are consistent with the core values and responsibilities of advisors;
- To encourage and enable liberal arts students to develop suitable educational plans including appropriate course selection, interpretation of institutional requirements, selection of intended majors and/or course of study, and the transfer-process to four-year colleges;
- To facilitate and clarify liberal arts students' educational and career goals;
- To enhance liberal arts students' awareness about educational resources available to them (i.e., tutoring, scholarships, distance learning, study abroad, honors projects, etc.);
- To increase referrals to, and use of, institutional and community
support services (i.e., Counseling, Office for Students with Disabilities,
Evening/Weekend programs, International Students Office, etc.);
- To empower liberal arts students by developing their decision-making skills, reinforcing their self-direction, and strengthening their personal responsibility for their educational, career and life choices;
- To devise a comprehensive student database that will provide access to student information and progress toward their established goals;
- To create an academic advisement handbook for college-wide dissemination;
- To collect and distribute data regarding the educational needs of liberal arts students, their history and academic performance for the use of institutional decisions and policy-making;
- To increase retention of liberal arts students over the life of the Title V grant.
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