Transcript GRIP Information

GRIP Retreat Review
June 4, 2013
GRIP THEMATIC TEAMS
• Team 1: Enrollment Management
Recruitment and Admissions; UTSA Ready; Top Scholar;
Financial Aid; Finish in Four; On Campus Employment
• Team 2: Transition & Advising
Orientation; First Year Experience; Advising Bridging
Programs; Advising Electronic Support Systems
• Team 3: Curricula & Academic Planning
Streamlining Curriculum; Tutoring, SI and Online
Resources; Waitlists; Online Learning; Competency and
CLEP Testing; Multidisciplinary Studies
Students are our highest priority.
RETREAT TAKEAWAYS
• We must foster a student-centered campus culture
… whether it’s customer service from our staff and
faculty or the teaching methodology of our faculty.
– Identify policy and process roadblocks in your area
– Be helpful and respectful
– Doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, but see first
two above
• We must find funds to offer scholarships to recruit
strong students.
• We must help students find the right major sooner
RETREAT TAKEAWAYS
• We must include our
students in our
conversations when
seeing how to improve.
• We must continue to
think creatively and
share our ideas.
• The GRIP is the most
important thing UTSA is
doing, and we cannot
fail.
FALL 2013 PILOT PROJECTS
• First Year Experience (Academic Inquiry and
Scholarship course and University Peer
Mentor program)
• Top Scholar Program
• Early Alert
• Revise Advising and Orientation
• Competency-Based Exams
• Fine-Tuning Previously Implemented
Programs
VPAA POLICY CONSIDERATIONS
• Curriculum and Majors:
– Changing prerequisite or degree requirements
– Course milestone and support work
– Process/limits for changing majors
• Faculty Issues:
– Make assignments to be graded early
– Grades entered timely into Blackboard Learn
– Grade distribution for tenure & promotion
• Advising
UTSA POLICY CONSIDERATIONS
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Orientation/Roadrunner Days
Registration holds
UTSA job bank for student hiring
15 vs. 12 credit hours for university financial
aid, scholarships
University withdrawal process
Catalog course “longevity”
Course drop date
Please help us identify others
CLOSING REMARKS – WANDA MERCER
The most important thing is helping students
earn degrees. “Everything else is extraneous.”