Final Recommendations

PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT PRIORITY

• Broadly promote the First-year Philosophy statement across campus to ensure that all faculty, staff, and students operate under its guiding values and principles.

ACADEMIC SUCCESS PRIORITIES

• Ensure that every student has a consistent and coordinated first-year orientation experience.
• Support the implementation and expansion of the core curriculum to improve portability of courses across majors.
• Ensure appropriate availability of course spaces that allow students to make progress toward degree completion.
• Expand admit-to-university opportunities.

INSTRUCTOR, FACULTY, AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES

• Encourage (or Provide) professional development opportunities for all instructors and staff that interact with first-year students.
• Commit to advancing and rewarding research on teaching and learning.
• Establish a coordinated effort to collect and disseminate information on best practices, data useful for faculty instructing first-year students, and assessment to enhance program efforts.

STUDENT SUCCESS PRIORITIES

• Coordinate undergraduate academic advising in the first year.
• Coordinate undergraduate academic success programs
• Develop programs targeted at removing disparities in success among identified groups of students.
• Oversee the streamlining of communication to first-year students.