Student Success

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Academic Supports

Project Status: Implementation/Execution

To provide academic support to students enrolled in courses with historically lower completion rates or courses considered to be large gateway STEM courses, the Office of Student Success and the Learning Center have collaborated to provide embedded academic support.  For the purposes of this pilot, embedded academic support utilizes peer tutors to deliver high-quality academic support to students.

Accomplished

  • Provided Math 111z embedded tutoring to 2 course sections offer drop-in study groups and 1:1 tutoring to students
  • Embedded tutors in 7 ECE courses
  • Embedded tutors in CS 161, 162 and 163
  • Embedded tutors in EAS 212
  • Embedded tutors in Gen Chem 223(over 200 students enrolled).
  • Served 118 unique students over 274 times through embedded tutoring

In Progress

  • Continued partnership with Math faculty to provide math 111z and math 112z study pods for AY 2024-2025
  • Continued partnership with ECE Department to recruit, hire, and train Embedded tutors for ECE courses fall term
  • Reviewing and analyzing data collected throughout the year with a focus on demographic data and fall-to-fall retention.

Project Team

Team: Shoshana Zeisman-Pereyo and Crystal Tenty