Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Degree Completion Systems and Advisement

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Reports to: Report jointly to Provost and
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies
 Charge:
  1. Promote actions that elevate practice for undergraduate degree completion
    1. Identify and build on current successes in undergraduate advisement.
    2. Evaluate the ETSU advising systems in terms of Next-Generation Advising (Advisory Board Company, 2012)
    3. Pursue appropriate strategies for "next generation advising" that emerged from an Education Advisory Board (EAB) study aimed at elevating practice for degree completion and career success,
    4. Coordinate and promote ETSU's securing maximum benefit from its participation as a member of the EAB Student Success Collaborative [administratively overseen by the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education], including but not limited to the University's access to the web-based student graduation success monitoring system developed in collaboration with other founding member university participants in the Collaborative.
    5. Coordinate and promote the integration of systems and advisement initiatives the University is pursuing or may pursue to support the completion agenda—e.g.:
      1. Current Activities
        1. Undergraduate Student Advisement
        2. University Advisement Center
        3. Academic Alert
        4. Early Semester Progress Reports
        5. End-of-Term Review (evaluating student progress)
        6. Academic Advisement Council
        7. Transfer Advisory Council
        8. Tennessee Transfer Pathways
      2. New Initiatives
        1. Degree Works
        2. Degree Compass
        3. EAB Collaborative
        4. Reverse Transfer
        5. Others to be identified
  2. Promote actions that reduce obstacles to Undergraduate Degree Completion
    1. Respond to the immediate need to clarify program requirements in the Undergraduate Catalog and thereby assure compliance with SACS CS 3.5.3.
    2. Identify and address other systemic obstacles to graduation,
    3. which might include the following:
      1. Reviewing needlessly restrictive program requirements (e.g., requiring specific general education courses for the major). Identify program requirements that academic units often waive or modify for individual students, but that, on their face, appear to limit students' timely progress toward degrees.
      2. Improve availability of seats in "bottleneck" courses.
      3. Reduce the occurrence of problems that are discovered only after students apply to graduate.
      4. Proactively identify opportunities for enhancing communication, for identifying student perceptions
        of obstacles, and for simplifying processes where possible.
      5. Propose a process for assessing the effectiveness of actions taken.
Meeting
Schedule:		 The Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Degree Completion Systems and Advisement will meet year-round on a regular basis between August 15 and May 15 with called meetings during summer... Deans will nominate faculty members to the Provost.
Reporting The Advisory Committee will provide two reports annually to the Academic Council—Fall, Spring. Reports will be due to the Provost on February 1 and June 1, with special reports provided as needed.

 

 

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Status Membership Structure Name Length of
Term
Voting Director of University Advisement

Teresa Williams, Chair

 Indefinite
Voting Admissions
Undergraduate

TBD

 Indefinite
Voting Adult, Commuter, & Transfer Services TBD Indefinite
Voting ETSU at Kingsport Lisa Elliott, Advisor Indefinite
Voting Registrar's Office Casey Gardner, Information Research Tech 2 Indefinite
Voting Registrar's Office
Graduation		 Jessica Miller, Assistant Registrar Indefinite
Voting Registrar's Office
Veterans' Affairs		 TBD Indefinite
Voting Registrar's Office
Degree Works		 Evelyn Roach Indefinite
Voting Transfer Articulation April Rainbolt Indefinite
Voting Undergraduate Education Bill Kirkwood, Vice Provost Indefinite
Voting Enrollment Services TBD Indefinite
Voting Director of Technical Services Ryan Seale, Director of Technical Services for Enrollment Services Indefinite
Voting Arts & Sciences Leslie MacAvoy, Philosophy and Humanities 2020
Voting Business & Technology

Prasun Bhattacharjee,
Economics and Finance

 2020
Voting Health Sciences TBD 2020
Voting Continuing Studies and Academic Outreach TBD 2020
Voting Clemmer College TBD 2020
Voting Nursing TBD 2020
Voting Public Health TBD 2020
Voting University Advisement Center Polly Crowder, Academic Advisor 2020
Voting Academic Affairs, Professional Advisor Maegan Beale, Academic Advisor 2020
Voting Health Affairs,
Professional Advisor		 Joanna Cyrier, Health Sciences Academic Advisor 2020
Voting Student Government Association TBD 2019
Voting Student Government Association TBD 2019

Updated 27 August 2020