School Commitment
Describe a practice at your institution that demonstrates School Commitment.
One way our school shows commitment to our students and graduates is by holding career fairs on campus, to which we invite, and have participate, employers looking for both part-time and full time employees. Employers include those in the industry/career field and temp agencies.
Bonita, connecting with students is obviously a good thing, but how do you assure that a successful connection has been made with each student?
Susie, do you have a sense of what percentage of your students take advantage of the open lab time? Are they the students who need extra practice or the highly motivated ones?
One policy in place at our institution that demonstrates school commitment is our connecting with students from the first day and beyond graduation. Our students often refer to our school as a second family. I feel this is because we are very connected to the students and all departments work as a team.
We have open labs for students to work on things they may need extra practice with. Students can also come to multiple classes of the same curriculum. Sometimes one instructors approach is more easily understood by a student.
Many of the instructors at our campus will gladly stay with students before or after class to tutor one on one. Management instructors and support services are all easily accessible to students with concerns.
Shawn, who is responsible for this initial outreach and who is responsible for recording the respond and assuring follow up?
We follow up with students that do not show up for a full day of class by calling them, email, and/or other means of communications to see if there are any difficulties the student is experiencing we may help with. We give the students the resources needed to locate jobs if needed.
Luke, are the skill labs part of the scheduled class time or an addition for people who need extra work?
Nelson, are there any prerequisites to join clubs? If a student's grades drop are they withdrawn from a club?
Ronald, how do make sure your students understand this commitment and actually take advantage of it if they need help?
We have multiple times throughout the week for our students to participate in skills labs. These give them the opportunity to improve their skills, especially struggling students. We also have academic plans for struggling students for them to help with instructor prep for class demos. This engages them and gives an outlet for the prep they accomplish.
The students have the option to joinc clubs and work as students ambassadors for the school representingthe school in outside events only the ones that are fully committed (GPA of 3.75 or higher) can be part of the student ambassador program.
Offering tutoring sets a level of commitment to help the student when or before the student is in jeapordy.
I hope the students appreciate this extra attention, Jamie. How is it arranged? Does Career Services get involved?
Martin, how often are students referred for this type of help? Is there an expectation that the money will be re-payed? Can a student get money more than once?
John, are posted signs enough to get students to use tutoring services? I suspect a personal invitation would be much more productive.
I have seen instructors give a refresher to students that have graduated and have yet to place in a job. Sometimes they just want to be reminded of how to do a specific task. Such as for Dental assisting practicing how to take impressions again.
If we have a student that is completely broke, we send them to the student services office. They can help students out with $20.00 to $40.00 for food or gas. Sometimes this is right where the student thinks he or she simply cannot stay in school any longer because of financial issues.
