Becoming A Deeper Enrollment Service Partnership

My passion towards working with students every day has led me to the decision of pursuing a doctoral degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education at Miami University. I have chosen this program to prepare myself for a future role as a professor or a senior level college administrator. This program will allow me to become more proficient within the students’ educational experience and therefore better engage students in active learning.

At my graduate assistantship at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), the graduate students from Monmouth were introduced to a few of the key offices that work with Residential Education and Housing. Through this introduction, I was able to meet Kelly Hennessy, who is the current Associate Dean of Students in the Department of Health and Wellness at The College of New Jersey. As a future Student Affairs professional, one of my end goals would ultimately become a Dean of Students, so it was exciting to interview Hennessy and see how she got to where she is today. Originally when Hennessy first started her college years, she thought that she wanted to be a teacher. After working with the professionals in her Residence Life Office and Leadership Office at the University of Buffalo, where she received both her bachelors and master’s degrees, she realized that her passion was no longer teaching, but rather to become the professionals she was surrounded and inspired by every day. Hennessy has worked in Residence Life for majority of her career up to about two years ago when the Department of Health and Wellness first started on TCNJ’s campus.

During her time in the program, she headed an alternate entry mentor program to mentor master’s-level students.

From my experience in overcoming barriers, as a past first-generation college student, appreciative advising is important for my work with students. According to recent literature, appreciative advising means “establishing meaningful rapport between students and advisors, and co-creating paths toward success” (Bloom et al., 2008, p. 18). Advising undergraduate students and graduate students is a two-way learning experience for both the advisor and the student. Hence, I am an expert in improving student persistence, and narrowing the achievement gap for underrepresented students (as specified in Goal 2 of the strategic plan implemented by President Mildred Garcia). As the new Educational Leadership and Ed Doctorate Advisor, I can focus on closing the achievement gap for underrepresented master’s degree students and doctoral students. Respectively, I can use the methods of appreciative advising while working with students in the College of Education (COE). For instance, I will communicate with COE faculty and manage assessments to learn the challenges graduate students

After reading Sonja Ardoin’s (2014) “the strategic guide to shaping your student affairs career” book, I read a variety of important content that has allowed me to reflect not only in my fieldwork position, as an Advising Assistant for the Puente Program, but also my current status as a graduate student in the Educational Counseling program.

Dr. Sonia Rosado has served as an educator, a mentor, and friend to the Muir College staff for the last 10 years - something that certainly must be draining. And yet, she does it with the belief that each staff and every day is just as important as the last. Each year serves a different community of incoming students and also works as a continuation of the last.

In my senior year of high school, I became the student body Vice President and discovered what it means to be an influential leader on campus. This experience exposed me to develop an array of qualities that can be utilized in the role of being resident assistants (RA). I have gained insightful knowledge of the intricate details necessary to be a productive leader who guides in an encouraging and supportive way. A gift that I posses is my ability to organize creative and innovative ways to build camaraderie among the people I serve. This is crucial and beneficial because it ensures for a safe and welcoming environment where everyone feels confident to seek assistance when needed. As a representative of this university and myself, I bring a dedicated intensity about infusing change by vocalizing the wants, needs, and concerns of the students to make my school resilience to an environment conducive to learning.

The Vision of Student Affairs is to empower USF students for lifelong success. Their mission is to cultivate student engagement,

In addition to connecting with all factors, the plan will include the leader becoming the change agent and motivating the masses together (Fullan, 2011). The Dean of Academic Affairs will “exemplify the curiosity, inquiry skills, and scholarly competencies need to investigate an idea and transform it into meaningful action” (Drexel University EdD Keystone 5, 2017). The plan will met be with resistance because so many at

I wanted to make clear that the challenge and the reward in my position is in bringing recruitment, admissions, communications, and first year programs together to the benefit of shaping our class which includes their experience with us from outreach or prospect up until (in many cases) when they attend Gone to Texas. As we discussed, I am responsible for everything from making sure regular information sessions happen as they should to involving faculty in our recruiting efforts and ensuring the Assistant Director of FRI

Do you help facilitate the open enrollment process? What items do you specifically handle during the open enrollment process? Will you develop cost projections for NGAM and its affiliates during the open enrollment process?

Therefore, for this quest I took the first step toward reuniting with the APSIRE program and made an appointment with my peer advisor Diana Castro. The experience made me realize how much of of stranger I have been in the community. Only my advisor, Diana, knew my name because many of the employees at ASPIRE are new to me. There are new tutors, new advisors, and new freshman. I am glad that I made time to attend a meeting with my advisor because during my time there, I was introduced to some new individuals whom I have never met before. The involvement that I had during my ASPIRE appointment was very much needed because I became aware that I was an individual that was not easily lost, but instead, easily missed by my community.

I am currently completing my Master’s program in Anthropology and have been advised by Nicole Davidson that I have a student accounts hold; I would like to remedy this as quickly and smoothly as possible.

Jen Kelley has offered to coordinate a time for Ann Jenkins from ICCOC to present information to us about EdReady /NROC, and recommends an hour to start as that should be sufficient to see it in action. This is an exclusive time for us, so we can learn how EdReady can be utilized and also asking questions to determine if it is applicable to our need.

Collaborations are present in learning communities and first year experience programs, but school leaders have to move beyond the norms and work seemingly together to create an environment of success for the students. First year experience programs are prominent on many university campuses but are optional on others. However, these departments utilize career placement counselors, academic advisors, testing coordinators, mentoring options, and academic success centers to increase the likelihood of students progressing from freshman year through graduation.