1. Advising in the First Year and Beyond; Developing Relationships that Last
Presenters: Dr. Deb Toomey & Allison Hoffmann
School of Business – Northwest Missouri State University
Session #: 033
October 5, 2015

2. About Us… Mission Statement:
Located approximately 1 ½ hour from Kansas City, 2 hours from Omaha, NE, 2 hours from Des Moines, IA
Approximately 7,000 students
State-assisted, regional four-year university
Top majors in terms of enrollment:
Education
Business
Agriculture
Textbooks and laptop included with tuition
Blended decentralized and centralized advising structure currently
Advisement Office –assists deciding students, freshman biology, business, and psychology students
Missouri is a performance-funding state
Mission Statement:
Northwest Missouri State University focuses on student success – every student, every day

3. Who is in our audience?

4. *Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents*
Who is in Session attendees participated in a survey to tell us about their institutional role
*Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents*

5. Pre-info from the audience
Let us know which factors you think are the most impactful at your school on a student’s academic success and potential to graduate.
We are happy to share this information to conference participants. If you are interested, just add your address at the bottom and mark the box asking for the results of this survey.

6. Introductions and History of Project
10+ years worth of data
Recent changes to our first year seminar course where instructors were no longer academic advisors for students in their section
Project provided the opportunity to collect data from previous seminar course/advising model and compare to the new model
Felt there was a strong connection between first year seminar grade and its impact on persistence, graduation, etc.
Provided opportunity to look at first term GPA and graduation

7. Scenario: You have a limited amount of time to meet with students on advising, on each of these pairs, pick which one you will meet with if required to make a choice and your goal was increase graduation rates?
First generation student OR a student with an Admissions Index of 75

8. *Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents*
Who is in Session attendees participated in a survey to answer the scenario below:
*Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents*

11. Scenario: You have a limited amount of time to meet with students on advising, on each of these pairs, pick which one you will meet with if required to make a choice and your goal was increase graduation rates?
A first semester student athlete OR a first semester male?

12. *Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents*
Who is in Session attendees participated in a survey to answer the scenario below:
*Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents*

15. Scenario: You have a limited amount of time to meet with students on advising, on each of these pairs, pick which one you will meet with if required to make a choice and your goal was increase graduation rates?
A student with a 2.40 HS GPA OR a student with a 17 ACT composite?

16. *Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents*
Who is in Session attendees participated in a survey to answer the scenario below:
*Poll everywhere only accepts the first 40 respondents*

19. Number of Terms Enrolled
Influential Factors
Graduation
Number of Terms Enrolled
ACT Composite
HS GPA
Freshman Seminar Grade
Academic Status
Conditional Admit
Gender
Athletic Status
First Generation
Admissions Index
Deficiency Grade in FS
GPA First Term

41. Total of 290 student athletes vs. 2061 non-athletes

44. Questions to ponder… What surprised you about that data?
How can this data help your institution?
What three data elements do you want to investigate at your institution?
If you had your institution’s data, how might your advising change?

45. THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!
Presentation takeaways/Recap
THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!