Connection, Community, Completion (Credentialing): RCC's Academic and Support Pathways Model
Tracks
Town Hall Theater
Monday, October 28, 2019 |
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM |
Town Hall Theater |
Speaker
Christina Merriweather
Director - TRIO Student Support Services
Rockland Community College
Connection, Community, Completion (Credentialing): RCC's Academic and Support Pathways Model
2:00 PM - 3:15 PMFull Abstract
Through Guided Pathways, Rockland Community College is restructuring its campus, in order to better serve its students and provide them with a purposeful education, while promoting student access, success, and completion (credentialing). The College is set to launch its re-design in the fall of 2020. Melanie Rie will discuss how our academic pathways will provide students with a clear path towards their desired completion and/or transfer end goals. Additionally, she will describe the nuances and dynamics of our Guided Pathway's Leadership Team and how each team has a Faculty member and a Student Services Administrator, serving as co-chairs, in order to promote the broad and authentic engagement of both college faculty and staff, in the implementation, evaluation, and ongoing improvement of this student success reform. Corry Spring will educate attendees on the College's Onboarding re-design process and how our new practices will align with Guided Pathway's prinicples and mission. Katie Lynch will discuss how the College's First-Year Experience is being re-designed to augment the academic pathways established within each of the College's 5 Schools. Introduction to the School of... is a course, much like a First-Year Seminar course, currently being proposed by our First-Year Experience Team, that will be tailored to the needs of the students within each School, and will empower them to succeed and complete their desired credentials. Joe Falco will educate attendees on the holistic, developmental, intrusive advising model re-design that will provide students with academic, career, and transfer advising, personal counseling, and access to the appropriate accommodations and support services, in order for them to stay enrolled on a purposeful pathway and achieve their desired completion goals. Such a herculean order can only be completed through the collaborative efforts of Academic Deans and their Program Directors, Faculty and Professional Advisors, and Peer Advisors. All four panelists, through collaboration with the President and his Executive Cabinet, utilize their leadership demonstrating skills, from a grass-roots design, to collectively manage and sustain large-scale transformational change at the College.