Building Ownership for Student Progression Among Faculty and Academic Units 

Faculty engagement is critical to ensuring that student success efforts have staying power on campus. In this session, we will focus on best practices for engaging faculty as a collective, whether in committee work, departmental planning, or governance groups. We will review how academic leaders can arm faculty with tools to make better curricular decisions, calibrate academic policies to eliminate unnecessary barriers to student persistence, and strengthen collaboration between faculty and academic advisers. The presentation will also explore methods to engage faculty in identifying early signs of student risk and mentoring at-risk student populations.

In this session, attendees will learn how to:
• Integrate student retention and completion data into faculty-led curricular change
• Audit academic policies to identify gaps in the student pipeline
• Mitigate transfer-out risk through faculty-student engagement opportunities