Improve student onboarding through pre-collegiate modules and proactive connections between incoming students, meta-majors and co-curricular opportunities through Panther Connect program
Enhance support offered to all 1st-year students by proactively connecting them to opportunities for student engagement based on their curricular and co-curricular interests. Panther Connect introduces guided pathways to student engagement much like learning communities and meta majors structure academic pathways. Develop program of incentives for participation in engagement activities. ALSO Deliver pre-collegiate modules related to developing a productive mindset and building college readiness skills. Pre-collegiate module designed for students and parents to engage on how to be successful in college
Evaluation Plan and measures: Measure engagement by first year students through tracking activities in Panther Involvement Network and completion of modules
Baseline measure: unknown.
Goal or targets: 75% 1st year engagement and 75% completion of modules
Time period/duration: Summer 2023-Spring 2024
Panther Connect helps reduce the anxiety of choose from 400+ campus clubs and organizations down to 15 meta involvement options. Uses a data feed (from Slate) into CampusLabs system (PIN) to set up auto communications. From FF22 cohort data, students who attend 4 or more events have a 6% higher retention rate than average. Panther Connect program won Innovative Orientation program award at the NODA southeast regional conference in 2023. Launched Panther Reward incentive program.
Will implement pre-collegiate modules for Summer 2024
Unable to complete pre-collegiate modules for Summer 2023 implementation
