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Early Alerts Program Updates

Project Status: Monitor/Assess

The Early Alerts workgroup is focused on increasing faculty participation in Early Alerts. The workgroup is focusing on how to close the loop with faculty each term, and how to best provide quarterly status reports. Additional work is being done to make Early Alerts data accessible so that it can be shared more regularly. The leadership team has synthesized insights gathered over the past two years to develop a proposal outlining the essential components for a sustainable Early Alerts program at PSU. 

Accomplished

  • The webpage was updated with user friendliness and navigability in mind. 
  • Student Success presented to UNST faculty about early alerts in Fall and met with FRINQ Pilot Faculty in Winter to continue the conversation about the process.
  • UNST and Mathematics have requested faculty response rates to follow up with non-responders in Fall and Winter. Both departments saw an increase in responses as a result. 
  • Fall and Winter Admits and Summer Scholars have been receiving additional follow up for any alert reason, rather than just reasons that open cases, in an effort to increase retention of students who receive alerts in their first year. 

In Progress

  • Exploring possibility of additional academic departments following up with non-responders. 
  • Working with OIT on Slate integration, to roll out in Fall 2025.
  • Additional improvements to the system can be added in the following 12-months

Project Team

Sponsor: Erin Shortlidge
Project Leads: Andrea Garrity, Randi Harris
Project Coordinator: Beth Harris
Team: Becki Ingersoll,  Shoshana Zeisman-Pereyo, Beth Harris, Kate Constable, Andrea Garrity, Randi Harris
Collaborators: Dean of Student Life, Global Diversity and Inclusion, Office of Information Technology