A presentation from the HEA's Research Conference: Promoting Equity in Higher Education 2010.
The workshop will focus on the development and application of a student success framework to support diverse students based on the work of Dr. George Kuh who developed the Inventory for Student Engagement and Success (ISES). With an eye to those groups currently under-represented we will use the framework to examine students' needs in terms of their preparation for post secondary their exploration of the educational opportunities in the institution and the establishment of the goals and values they desire at completion. The participants will use the model to explore how an institution can examine assess and develop the conditions to support this process.
In small groups using the mission statements of their institutions participants will formulate and share some of the implicit goals and aspirations expected of their students at completion. After a discussion of their institution's definition of student experience student engagement and student success they will use these constructs of the model to examine the interaction of antecedents and consequences particularly in terms of the role an enacted mission makes as an intentional and explicit commitment to all students related to graduation rates persistence and student engagement. The intent of these interactive discussions is to model capacity building for participants to take back and use in their institutions.
