Integrated Learning: Highlights, 2007-08
The list of highlights will be updated during the academic year.
- First Year Experience
- Redefined and coordinated first-year experience responsibilities for key student leadership positions: Preceptorial Assistants, FYE Resident Assistants, and Torero Days Squad Leaders.
- Strengthened processes to identify, interview, and select student leaders.
- Developed a training program for Preceptorial Assistants with the Center for Educational Excellence and offered two fall training sessions.
- Instituted "Project Blue," a series of individual meetings between new students and FYE Resident Assistants.
- Developed processes for evaluating the effectiveness of the preceptorial program.
- Reorganized "FYE Workshops" as "FRESH@USD" (Finding Resources, Enhancing Success and Health) and set up online registration for programs.
- Second Year Experience
- In response to committee's charge, developed a series of recommendations for programs targeted to second-year students.
- Improve advising, particularly for undeclared and transfer students.
- Connect with students to welcome them back for a second year by sending them a letter during the summer and hosting a welcome-back barbeque and "Torero Day" when they return.
- Feature programs specifically for second-year students, including a hunger banquet, a majors fair, and an interships fair.
- Presented recommendations to the Board of Trustees: the Student Affairs Committee, the Academic Affairs Committee, and the full Board.
